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Harry Potter and Parenting
Education & Development

Harry Potter and Parenting

...become Harry’s real second home, the place where he can become his true self. In the final scene of the first book, when Harry and his friends are about to catch the train home at the end of term, Harry says ‘I’m not going home, not really’. If the Harry Potter series embodies its hero’s search for home and family, there is a particular focus on his quest for a...
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Methods in Motion: Inside Outsiders and Outside Insiders
Languages

Methods in Motion: Inside Outsiders and Outside Insiders

...becomes increasingly implicated in normative migration and integration regimes. I dreaded the first interviews that I conducted in German, shortly after arriving from the Netherlands as a researcher in Austria. Each interview started with apologies about my language mistakes. Going through the already painful process of transcribing on a German keyboard, I always skipped...
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What was The Schlieffen Plan?
History & The Arts

What was The Schlieffen Plan?

...become invincible. This was a fear shared by other governments, but in Britain and France it had led to the decision to seek friendlier relations with Russia. The new Entente between Britain and France was only just being shown to be effective following the First Moroccan Crisis. As a result of the Crisis Germany began to feel the full effects of her own expansionist...
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How to build a real lightsaber
Science, Maths & Technology

How to build a real lightsaber

...become incandescent and to melt your hand. Besides these more practical points, the amazing effects of lightsaber fights would be unfeasible. Two laser-based lightsabers would never clash against each other. They would simply pass through one another with no effect. What’s more, a laser focuses light in one direction so sharply that you can’t see it unless you look...
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Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion
Money & Business

Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion

...become more important than ever...The concept of diversity in the workplace and the recognition of the need to pay attention to diverse groups of workers has evolved over the years in terms of both conceptualisation and geographical extension. The study of inclusion and diversity, which began in the United States, before taking momentum in Europe and, more recently,...
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Managing our personal financial risks from the changed climate
Nature & Environment

Managing our personal financial risks from the changed climate

...become available? I change my priorities. For the moment, I decide to keep the boiler repaired and use my savings to improve insulation. Insulation should be useful whatever heating becomes available. It could also improve the marketability of the house. Governments will be making financial commitments as a result of the COP26 negotiations this autumn. They will need to...
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Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism
History & The Arts

Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism

...become endangered species ourselves seemed to be dystopian. Many sub-genres of eco-art emerged through the decades, Sustainable Art being the latest. Waste in its many forms is used in up-cycling when eco-artists transform it into art objects and installations. In 2019 I took part with two video poems in The New Voices of Ireland Series 7 exhibition in Dublin, organised...
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The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...become a little more important as we age. In this series of the Ageing Well Public Talks, we explore some answers together. I am Dr Jitka Vseteckova, Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care with the Open University, and I am the creator of the Ageing Well Public Talk Series. The series is the outcome of collaborative work between academia, research and members of the...
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