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Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...becoming a mother. Some studies have shown that having a child does not have a negative impact on sport participation at all, however this is often connected to gaining support from a partner/spouse or family and friends. Barriers to sports participation appear more negotiable for those women who can seek social support from partners, family, and friends. It has also been...
Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...become secondary to capital. This issue is exemplified when it comes to the praxis of citizenship – the complex process whereby an individual is able to acquire citizenship in a precisely justified praxis, becomes irrelevant if the individual has sufficient capital (citizenship by investment). So, in responding to the question ‘Who Are We?’ with my work, I went back...
One refugee's story: A long, risky journey
Society, Politics & Law

One refugee's story: A long, risky journey

...student in Lebanon. He regularly went back to visit his family in Jobar, not far from the Syrian capital Damascus. Life was good. Then came the war. The bitter fighting between the Syrian army and the opposition intensified. Jobar became a battleground. “It [was] very dangerous. [There were] a lot of bomb, bomb, bomb,” he says. Soon neighborhood men started to...
The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...students began attending university for free when the new academic year began in March 2016. They represented about half the students from the poorest 50% of Chilean households.” Sense of urgency The need for a gear change in momentum towards all seven of the targets in SDG4 on education is stressed throughout the report. Our world leaders need to demonstrate their...
Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...students training to be a professional have ‘awareness’ of their digital footprint, but when they actually examine what they share online they are surprised by the amount of information that is available (Ryan, 2017a, b). The activity below will ask you to reflect on the type of information you share with the public on social media. Assessing your own use of social...
Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...students with disabilities, as a political act. Academic activism of this kind suggests that, in fact, ‘researchers need to engage with diverse voices […] voices may be multi-tonal and we need to think carefully about what methods we can employ in order to be sensitive to each tone’ (Seale, 2016, p. 160). Researchers could also consider how to share ownership of the...
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...become stronger than perhaps they should. I was once at a conference with a very high up BBC person who told me how proud she was that she’d managed to persuade the controller at BBC 1 not to run environmental programmes because they were bad for the audience. Now, none of that strikes me as being particularly usefully academic. Separation of powers. I think part of it...
Section 1: Introducing ‘Red Clydeside’
Society, Politics & Law

Section 1: Introducing ‘Red Clydeside’

...OU Learning Event in George Square Glasgow, January 31, 1919, with the Glasgow City Chambers in the background ] The Open University Learning Event in George Square Glasgow, January 31, 1919, with the Glasgow City Chambers in the background January 31, 2019 marked the centenary of one of the most infamous episodes of the Red Clydeside era. Alternatively referred to as...