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Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities

...communities are less likely to access nature, or have a positive experience in green or blue spaces. An example is during the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions meant that people became more aware of nature that was available locally and had a better appreciation of the benefits from engaging with nature. Unfortunately, we also became more aware that these benefits were not...
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Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...communication. We’re trying to find ways of enabling people to think about the future whilst taking into consideration - well let’s call them voices, other than human voices; the sound of the waves, or the bird song and the dawn chorus, or the sound of the mean average temperature rising across the decades. So it’s a way of trying to find ways of allowing human...
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The Borders of Astrobiology
Science, Maths & Technology

The Borders of Astrobiology

...communities, how do we address the problem of scale? It’s possible to imagine an engaged project that works beautifully with a small, single, engaged community that stays with the project from start to end. What issues will we need to address when we scale up engaged research to regional or national scales? Should we even try? Is quantity less important than quality?...
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Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...communicating with friends, family and colleagues using email and/or social media. You might be using the internet to undertake household tasks like shopping or banking or arranging for your central heating to be serviced. You might stream music or a movie, or watch catch-up TV. And of course, if you’re an OU student you'll be using the internet for your studies! But...
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The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace

...communicate effectively, empathise with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Developing emotional intelligence skills can help us to be more successful in both our personal and professional lives: developing better relationships; adapting to, and coping with, challenging situations; and improving mental wellbeing...What is emotional intelligence all about?...
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Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
History & The Arts

Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history

...community or organisation. (Her account suggests there might have been small informal groups, but as a white woman these would not have been open to her.) In 1964, Wilmer had a lesbian encounter at a party with someone she calls Yvonne, a nurse who had come over from the Bahamas. Wilmer had a more serious affair with a woman she calls Stevie Tagoe: a dancer and musician,...
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...communities, operating on a systemic level, privileging Whites, regardless of individual intention or awareness of benefitting from and perpetuating racism (for more discussion of the lived social impacts of systemic racism in the US, see Leonardo, 2013 and for discussion of the Racial Contract see Mills, 1997). [Systemic Racism Is Real Sign] The concept of institutional...
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Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...community dominated socially and economically by the coal industry. There is a strong connection between personal experience and the social factors related to paid work, and a strong sense of belonging – of being the same as others within the community. Within coal mining communities there was little room for the expression of alternative identities to work-based ones...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs