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Herodotus 'The Histories'
History & The Arts

Herodotus 'The Histories'

...research historians. Our word for ‘history’ comes from the Greek word historia (or historiê in some dialects), meaning ‘enquiry’, which Herodotus uses right at the beginning of his narrative. In these activities, we try to show that history is really a matter of ‘open enquiry’. If you want to really understand the past, you have to research it, not just take...
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Activity 5 mins
Community Social Care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Community Social Care

...research into genetic screening and therapies is debated by people with disabilities and geneticists, highlighting the issue of rights for disabled people Disabled Women and Motherhood The challenges and joys of motherhood expressed by two women with differing disabilities Normal Lives, Different Lives A researcher's assessment of life on a locked ward for men with...
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Audio 2 hrs 32 mins
The Open University Worldwide
OpenLearn Ireland

The Open University Worldwide

...Research at the Open University Open University research provides a rich platform of intellectual capital to inform our teaching. It also makes a real difference across the world, to both people and places - adding value to society and the economy. Our multidisciplinary approach brings unique solutions. Examples given include space exploration, health diagnosis and...
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Audio 35 mins
Entrepreneurial Lives
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial Lives

...children, the reasons for their business choices, and the challenges / rewards of balancing demands of work and family in this way. Friends, family and fools: A help or a hindrance? MariaLaura explores the complexities of running a small business with friends or family members. Making it up as you go along: Business as bricolage Bricolage refers to ‘making-do’ with...
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Audio 1 hr 17 mins
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...children and their grandchildren and so on, I don’t understand why they won’t let us deal with these serious problems. If you want to make a programme about child abuse, you wouldn’t pretend it was something else, you wouldn’t feel you had to slide it in around the side. Why do we feel this with the environment; why do we even talk about it as ‘the e word’? I...
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Video 20 mins
Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic

...children in nurseries, but many others had to call upon family members and friends as sources of additional help. As the pandemic took hold and more restrictions were introduced, including new limits on numbers allowed to meet indoors and on household mixing, women workers without nursery provision found it increasingly different to draw on these sources of informal...
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Article 10 mins
Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?
Money & Business

Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?

...research into tech accelerator programmes has found many (often unwittingly) cater for men over women. [A talk at a 2009 YCombinator event] A 2009 YCombinator event You only need to take a quick look at any accelerator participant list to see that women lack status, visibility and voice within these programmes. The US accelerator Y Combinator, for example, has invested in...
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Article 5 mins
Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace

...research with people of working age who are terminally ill, research about job quality and wellbeing, and personal experience of working whilst living with a terminal illness. Below is an image of factors that research has shown makes a ‘good job’. We encourage you to use these to think about how you may reshape or tailor a job for someone with a terminal illness to...
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Article 5 mins