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Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...d), a shallow sea had encroached on this area once again Students who attend the Open University residential school week in northern Britain associated with this course will begin to evaluate the range of environments that existed there in the geological past. In the Lake District, a deep ocean has left a thick sequence of mudstones, shales and siltstones overlying and juxtaposed to a series of volcanic rocks. In ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Why are many African governments wary of social media?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are many African governments wary of social media?

...source of news Social media provides new ways of rapidly sharing information with large numbers of people. In the past a joke poking fun at a political leader might have been shared with a few friends. Today it could reach thousands. Blogs and platforms, such as WhatsApp, have become major sources of news for many internet users. They sometimes inform what’s reported in...
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Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties

...sources of the British Communist Party (CPGB), and the developing interest in personal and family memoir. However, the seminar stirred two methodological questions. Firstly, what can we draw from different academic disciplines? Debates about the divided loyalties of communists involved in espionage have been largely confined to intelligence studies, with little interest...
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Why mothers post about their children on social media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mothers post about their children on social media

...source of pride to parents can nevertheless be a source of disruption to the child’s life – both on and offline. Our research also suggests some mothers believe that by posting updates about their children online, they can try to avoid digital conflict by keeping everyone involved. Mothers often treat their online sharing as a means of maintaining close connections...
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Lesbian, gay and bisexual teenagers at much greater risk of depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lesbian, gay and bisexual teenagers at much greater risk of depression

...sources – so-called convenience-based sampling. But studies using LGB events and related websites to obtain participants are more likely to be skewed towards certain demographic groups, such as males. Because there is scant data available on transgender and intersex young people, we had to exclude these groups from our study. When we compared the results of female...
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Is being a student good for your mental health?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is being a student good for your mental health?

...sources when their problems start to feel too much for them (Kenny et al., 2016). So one thing that universities and colleges can do to enhance the mental health of their students is to find as many ways as possible of enabling social interactions between students throughout their time of studying. Peer support schemes (Byrom, 2018) are another way in which distressed...
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The rural dimension – after rundale
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – after rundale

...source) Transcript: Ladder farms at Malin Beg, Southwest Donegal, 1983 PAT JESS: This landscape behind me at Malin Beg is called ladder farms. It’s a good description but it doesn’t explain very much. In order to understand how it came to be as it is, we need to know something of society processes, the cultural context and the role of the physical environment and how...
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Young people making their own media
Education & Development

Young people making their own media

...source material, comment on each others' stories, videos and images, and make friendships. Such communities generally begin online, shifting across different spaces (currently, the blogging site Tumblr is probably the main place). But relationships born in fandom often move offline too, as young people meet up either spontaneously or at conventions and events focussed...
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