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Life on the wall: Vindolanda
History & The Arts

Life on the wall: Vindolanda

...2] The letter of the left-handed Octavius to Candidus, reporting on the acquisition of considerable supplies and the urgent need for more money – and including the interesting statement that he would not send his mules down to Catterick to collect a wagon load of leather hides, because the roads were so bad. The exceptional information in the writing tablets has to be...
The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series
Money & Business

The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series

...2: Simonne Gnessen Understanding how emotions influence our money choices Simonne is a financial educator, author and pioneer of financial coaching in the UK. In this interview Simonne discusses the importance of money emotions and talks with George and Martin about how emotions shape money behaviour. Simonne also uses her experience of money growing up as a way into...
Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...2: (holding a placard with the word ‘Animals’ written on it): laughs The most striking thing about this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene is the lack of irony, which several comments under a YouTube video of the advert point out. One comment reads, ‘The irony is strong in this advert. Saving animals from a fire yet eating them at the same time (after they’ve been...
Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...28 April 2020). Velija, P., Ratna, A., and Flintoff, A. (2014) ‘Exclusionary power in sports organisations: The merger between the Women’s Cricket Association and the England and Wales Cricket Board’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 49(2), pp. 211–226. Explore more articles in this collection of Women in sport. [Women in sport - banner main]...
The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...2:1) for BME students. For 2019/20 the first-time completion rate (of a module) for students from BAME backgrounds was 65.9% and for White students 73.3%. This means non-BAME students are more likely to complete with a differential of -7.4%. In terms of pass rates, in the same year, the gap is larger with 61.1% of BME students passing compared to 71.8% of White students...
Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...C., Manley‐Casimir, M., Grundy, A.L. and Fenton, N. (2005) ‘Living ethics: a narrative of collaboration and belonging in a research team’, Reflective Practice, 6(4), pp. 551–67. Travnicek, C., Stoll, D., Reichinger, A. and Rix, J. (2022) ‘It soon became clear – insights into technology and participation’, Qualitative Research Journal, 22(2), pp. 129–42....
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...2 out of 7 new monuments being built for NYC to include more historical women. Bayard Rustin17 March 1912 – 24 August 1987 Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it. [A photograph of Bayard Rustin] Bayard Rustin was a gay African American civil rights activist, who was an adviser to Martin Luther King Jr and the main organiser of the March on...
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...2: Protecting our countryside Axis 3: Improving people’s lives and encouraging diversification Axis 4: Supporting local projects and initiatives Each region in Wales, as part of the Wales Rural Network, has its own Local Action Group which then applies the RDP strategy according to its own situational needs. This kind of information is useful as background when thinking...
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