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Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father
Society, Politics & Law

Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father

...community. But my own research, both with fathers and with young men themselves, suggests that many boys learn some of their most important adult skills – including how to be caring, involved fathers – as much from their mothers and from the other women in their lives. Perhaps we need to pay more attention to boys’ need for positive female role models if we’re to...
Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?
Society, Politics & Law

Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?

...community still fear reprisals that prevent them from giving this outward sign of affection. The 2013 Natsal (National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles) and 2008 British Social Attitudes surveys show increasing social tolerance of lesbian and gay lifestyles in Britain and greater sexual experimentation among women and young queer couples. Same sex marriage was...
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship

...community based sponsorship programs can be a key means for achieving socially just outcomes. Helen Ware explores the potential of responsible sponsorship for helping refugees in her article “Asylum Sponsorship: we need a sponsorship register for refugees”. This article was written to accompany the Autumn 2015 series of The Bottom Line. For more information on the...
Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two
Society, Politics & Law

Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two

...communities’ prosperity, through tree planting. This kind of language and thinking was in stark contrast to the blunt insistence from many Western environmentalists upon the need for ‘birth control’. But another issue starts to emerge in this period, which brings another set of voices to the fore in environmental debates through the course of the decade that...
How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?
Digital & Computing

How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?

...communities for making their stories public. How has the public reaction been to the story? My biggest fear was people thinking Snapchat was making a serious topic trivial. Quite the opposite happened. The story got people taking about rape culture, sexual abuse in India and women’s issues in a broader way. But that conversation started with the innovative use of tech....
Fracking: Is it possible to persuade the public that the benefits outweigh the risks
Nature & Environment

Fracking: Is it possible to persuade the public that the benefits outweigh the risks

...across the UK (and beyond) have come together to protest against fracking in their areas. But there are strong economic imperatives which make governments and oil companies keen to exploit shale gas. Can the gap between the two sides be closed?...An issue as controversial as fracking is bound to lead to some emotional debates. Lively protests in the UK against the
Mycoprotein - could this meat alternative be a food for the future?
Science, Maths & Technology

Mycoprotein - could this meat alternative be a food for the future?

...communities for agriculture destroys habitats and creates low diversity landscapes in which few wild animal species can survive. [An ariel image of the Amazon rainforest showing the extent of deforestation for farming land]2019 satelite image shows the extent of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Source: Sentinel hub Farming sustainably Sustainable farming describes...
Danielle Martin
Education & Development

Danielle Martin

...community where I can tap into the support and camaraderie… it’s really helped to enrich my study experience. It’s always lovely to be able to pop an Instagram post up and chat to someone who is going through the same struggles of juggling life and study!’ So, what would Danielle say to those who have yet to give OpenLearn a try? ‘Log on, enrol on something that...