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Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...centrality to the research process. It signals the researcher’s intention to take an appropriate ethical position. However another implication, less often recognised, is that ‘participating’ in research is an active engagement. Are we paying sufficient attention to this? At the start of a project, potential participants are generally given a bland and partial...
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What is Religion - and the Growth of Religious Toleration
History & The Arts

What is Religion - and the Growth of Religious Toleration

...Central to this was a legal principle that, encapsulated in Latin, says ‘cuius regio, eius religio’, i.e., ‘whose realm, his religion’. This meant that the religion of a ruler determined the religion of his state. Either Catholic or Protestant Christianity would be the legally established religion of each state according to the affiliation of the ruler. However,...
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Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...central bank forward guidance, economic forecasts, finance models, business plans, visions of technological futures, and new era stories influence behaviour and become instruments of power in markets and societies; and it argues that the market impact of shared calculative devices, social narratives, and contingent imaginaries underlines the rationale for a new form of...
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The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Society, Politics & Law

The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?

...central OU academic staff. All this led to significant economies of scale. Academics at conventional British universities taught about eight full-time students each in 1973. By contrast, each OU academic taught some 180 part-time students (aided by a large corps of part-time tutors). To be sure, some activities were relatively expensive, notably broadcasting and...
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A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...central Harlem was predominantly black. By the 1930s, the black population was growing, fuelled by migration from the West Indies and the southern US. As more black people moved in, white residents left; between 1920 and 1930, 118,792 white people left the neighbourhood and 87,417 black people arrived. Some attempted to resist change in 'their' neighbourhood, entering...
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The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...central questions as you watch, answer the following questions: How did Rome see its role in the world? What key questions follow from this? Introducing the Roman world (video 8 minutes) JANET HUSKINSON “To Romans I set no boundary in space or time I have granted them dominion, and it has no end” In Virgil’s Aenied, Rome’s destiny to rule the world was foretold by...
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Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...central belt of Scotland, around 150 miles to the south. Since the 1980s in particular, it has been a battle ground between the Scottish Conservatives and the Scottish National Party, with different constituencies, Banff and Buchan, Gordon and Moray, changing hands between both parties over this period. [Scottish Government 2014: Scotland's Future and Scottish Fisheries]...
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Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?

...central European countries. There have been occasional racist attacks but these remain a minority. The reason for this tolerance might be that Croatia has had a close experience of Islam for centuries as a former part of the Ottoman empire. Islam is culturally and architecturally visible and Muslims are a recognised minority group. The Islamic Community in Croatia – a...
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