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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...mental process of knowing and developing knowledge) and what motivates human behaviour, particularly in the areas of medical decision making and psychology (e.g. Schwarz (2000) and Ubel (2005)). Activity 2 Information constraints Read the extract below from March (1994) and complete the following activity. What are the four main information constraints that March believes...
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Should the Americans consider the lessons of Brexit before voting this November?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the Americans consider the lessons of Brexit before voting this November?

...health of markets is to retirement and savings accounts. It also reminds us how important stability is for consumer confidence, employment and overall growth. It is perhaps a small irony that echoes of 2008 are a key driving force behind the current push toward populism. If nothing else, the Great Recession should highlight the need for greater certainty in the political...
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Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...health situation? How do you think this can be controlled? Elisabeth: Yes, there are some people who claim that the COVID-19 pandemic is not too bad. Some are ignoring shelter-in-place orders, demanding that sports events, cinemas, and other large gatherings will reopen. They do not realise that the situation might have been far worse without these social distancing...
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Life-changing scholarships and bursaries at The Open University
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Life-changing scholarships and bursaries at The Open University

...health deteriorated. Since April 2019, I have been her full-time unpaid carer and look after her 24 hours a day, seven days a week with intermittent respite. Caring for a loved one means it’s very easy to stop being yourself. Thanks to this chance I feel alive, reborn like I am back in control of my life and I am going to succeed. This scholarship has given me the hope...
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Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...health, housing, childcare and education. The state often branded the unofficial users of the film as ‘ideological’, missing the point that they themselves were ideological, and the even larger point that we understand today – thanks to the work of theorists like Roland Barthes – that all images and audio-visual end-products are ideological. They all have meaning...
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Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Becoming a widow When my husband Alan was dying, one of the thoughts that haunted me every day I cared for him was: soon I would become a widow. I was 60 and Alan was 63 when on 21 November 2017 he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. We had met in 2006 and married in 2014 and neither of us had children from our...
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A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...health of children, and led to a sense of public satisfaction that children were being cared for. [Help me] Then the death of five year old Maria Colwell, murdered by her step father in 1973, despite being supposedly under the protection of the local authority, shocked the nation. It seemed the paraphernalia of local protection had failed, but despite the outcry, and the...
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Women and the fight to reclaim higher education
Society, Politics & Law

Women and the fight to reclaim higher education

...health and education in late 2022 and into 2023. In October 2022, the University and College Union (UCU) became the third trade union to secure a national mandate for action since the introduction of the Conservative trade union laws introduced in 2016 aimed at curtailing industrial action by unions, joining RMT and CWU. Over 70,000 university staff at 150 institutions...
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