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Could volunteering be bad for our health?
Society, Politics & Law

Could volunteering be bad for our health?

...managers to account are discussed in the same breath as the work of citizens who offer information, advice and support to current patients? Research repeatedly shows that some members of the public want to contribute to organisations in a range of ways, and many (even most) may not want to contribute at all. Emphasising the activist end of the involvement spectrum might...
Bird ringing in Bog Meadows
OpenLearn Ireland

Bird ringing in Bog Meadows

...activism saved the area for wildlife. Volunteers plant trees and maintain the habitats. Flax, the mainstay of Ireland’s traditional linen industry, also grows up in the reserve. Many environmental organisations rely on volunteers to manage areas for biodiversity. (For example Ulster Wildlife and BTCV ). Why not get involved and learn more about your local environment?...
Convoy to Calais
Society, Politics & Law

Convoy to Calais

...managed to gather a huge protest as they want to do. We’re now in the heart of Whitehall, the centre of the government. And we can see behind me the Cenotaph and the war memorials. And we can see the cars beginning to pile up. The plan today is to assemble a large collection of different kinds of vehicles, a convoy to Calais, that will show solidarity with the refugees...
Stamford College
Education & Development

Stamford College

...management, are slightly harder and I've worked with students to support them sometimes with those, but I actually use those more advanced courses with advanced learners.’ ‘OpenLearn is really accessible, anybody can access this. You don't have to think that you're an academic or a degree level student to access what you're learning.’ Caz’s students have found...
What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...management problems that creates, are not unique to cities – in fact the New York State Chief Information Officer (CIO) recently gave testimony describing the same challenge at the state level in the Empire State. Other challenges, like the proliferation of sensors from transportation and energy infrastructure and the privacy challenges of data around that expansion,...
Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...management when elected. The basis for competence-based trust Brexit and its painful unfolding over the last two years have many examples of politicians’ displays of an astounding lack of competence amongst top politicians. Since Tory party politicians lead the Brexit negotiations, the examples here sway towards conservative politicians: From David Davis not turning up...
Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...manage the boundaries where one person’s ‘freedom’ might harm another person?...Usually when wrestling with these tricky questions, we turn back to the great political thinkers associated with developing a robust idea of freedom. These are historical thinkers, often those associated with an era once known as the ‘Age of Enlightenment’, like Jean-Jacques...
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...Project OK, so my name’s Dawn Parsonage Kent, I work for Green.TV and I’m the Creative Director. What I do So essentially I oversee the creative side of the production of the business, so this can mean anything from originally creating ideas, writing ideas for briefs or overseeing the rest of the team as they edit, etc., to make sure that… number one that obviously...