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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...work won the Times Higher Education Award for Research Project of the Year 2008. He has also received a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2004, a European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2006, the British Association Charles Lyell Award Lecture 2006, and the Geological Society of London William Smith Fund 2008. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the...
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...Social Sciences who has spent most of his academic career at the Open University. And he has always had a strong interest in political geography, but he has also been actively involved in the field of environmental politics and policy making as a politician, government advisor and environmental activist. He was a member of the first Committee on Radioactive Waste...
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PodMag November 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag November 2016

...Social Sciences and Arts (FASS) at The Open University...In this edition of the PodMag, we are introduced to three members of the Religious Studies Department who talk about three different religious festivals which occur around this time of year – Halloween, Diwali and Christmas. Karen interviews Professor Graham Harvey, Head of Religious Studies, Professor Gwilym...
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Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?

...social scientists interested in making sense of contemporary social action and political life. The first is how do we know how people feel? Surveys – whether opinion polls or sociological investigations – tend to ask for views rather than feelings, so we know rather more about what people are concerned about (immigration, the NHS, etc) than what they feel about such...
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Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...work. To complete this OpenLearn course you will write a short draft of the key points of the interview and reflect on your own learning biography...This free course, Continuity and learning, has a practical and professional development focus. You will explore interactive dimensions of workplace learning: how people and workplace cultures create formal, informal, planned...
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Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...social benefit. It also suggests that public health initiatives will inevitably be responding to health crises that are either chronic (e.g. coronary heart disease) or acute (e.g. avian flu). This crisis-led approach means that public health becomes very much issue-led. This then hints at two senses of the public: the idea of ‘the public as a social entity or target for...
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Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...work on black holes, which revolutionised our understanding of the universe. Hawking passed away today peacefully at his home in Cambridge, his family confirmed in a statement: We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence...
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Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?

...working to some extent. It would be interesting to know if these players were early specialisers. However one could also argue that the current system encourages early talent identification and specialisation which can often fail to distinguish between potential and performance and so for those players such as Cowan-Dickie and Itoje that make it to the top level many...
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