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Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency
Nature & Environment

Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency

...research I had always planned to become a historian/archaeologist. However, as part of my degree with The Open University, I did modules on the challenges of climate change and the need to take action in all sectors, including for buildings. I, therefore, decided that I wanted to do a PhD on a topic that had direct practical relevance to the climate crisis, in the hope...
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One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?
Education & Development

One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?

...children from disadvantaged backgrounds – are often assessed against generalised benchmarks that overlook their unique contexts (Baidoo-Anu et al., 2023; Solano-Flores and Nelson-Barber, 2001). In contrast, a ‘social approach’ emphasises the relational and structural factors influencing learning. It shifts the focus away from trying to change individuals to better...
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Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic

...Research has now shown how our sex lives have been deeply impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. So here are five ways in which the pandemic has impacted sex lives. 1. Changes in sexual frequency Research carried out by the Natsal (National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles) COVID team1 found that in the four months following the UK’s first lockdown in March...
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How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...research shows how dramas like Coronation Street can help make sense of abstract political debates, explains Robert Topinka...The study of politics is often the study of war, conflict, terrorism, and statecraft, of the exceptional rather than the everyday. But political identities and ideologies also take shape in the space of ordinary life, in daily routines and banal...
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Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?
Nature & Environment

Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?

...research leader and campaigner for clean air at the non-profit Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Petcoke has far more sulphur content than coal while natural gas has none. But general service tax (GST), now being rolled out in the country as part of tax reforms, seems to favour petcoke over gas. Thus, while clean natural gas attracts a 30 per cent tax, coal is...
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Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam
Digital & Computing

Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam

...Cyber Security Centre (GCHQ) More about SamSam https://www.secureworks.com/research/samsam-ransomware-campaigns https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2016/03/samsam-ransomware.html?m=1 https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/01/samsam-evolution-continues-netting-over.html Atlanta’s spending to fix SamSam http://procurement.atlantaga.gov/awarded-emergency-procurements/...
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Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...researched and written about embodied carbon of buildings - only one part of what we need to think about for our built environment, as we face a future increasingly affected by climate change. [Construction site, sky full of cranes] What is the built environment? Our built environment includes physical objects such as buildings, roads and pavements, sewerage treatment...
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Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...research expedition in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, to explore how geography matters to people's 'common-sense' understandings of safety and well-being. Dr Johanna Wadsley is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Geography Department of the Open University. This article is based on research conducted in 2012, the year she graduated from The Open University with her...
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