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OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...paid by you through taxes and/or carbon offsets voluntarily paid for by you but undertaken by others, often projects in developing countries. Decarbonisation is given a separate line in the Summary and deducted from your personal footprint total. You could end up with a negative footprint and can claim to be doing something worthwhile to tackle the climate emergency....
What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?

...change their pre-settled to settled status for no fee. They do still need to apply for pre-settled status in order to be eligible for settled status. Both schemes include EU citizens’ family members, including family members who join EU citizens in the UK before the end of 2020. They also cover family who join after that date, if the EU citizen that the family member is...
6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales

...change. It could be anything from women’s rights to the environment, racial equity to language, public transport to housing. Some campaign groups operate in specific locations and concentrate on specific local issues, while others work right across the country (and beyond) on broader societal issues. Often, one of the best ways of finding campaign groups is through...
Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...changing of the seasons in the United Kingdom. The programmes are broadcast live from locations with many of the cameras hidden and operated remotely to record natural behaviour. Learning locally Many local and national museums/nature organisations run various programmes. So, you may need to follow up your local connections. Meanwhile here at the home of The Open...
The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many othersEverything is connected to everything else. That’s one of the themes that runs through A Perfect Planet. The Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many others. One of the stories in the series is about tropical fig trees, the birds and...
Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...changes to the way that teaching, research and communication can occur. Blogs, tweets, automatically generated citation measures, learning analytics, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), flipped classrooms, open access research – all of these impact on academic work and academic workers. In trying to make sense of this new world, discourse around digital technology in...
Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...change for future generations of women workers. Inspired by Union Activists At Bridgeton I worked alongside many wonderful characters and the stories they could tell were often humorous, even in dire circumstances, very much a trait of Glaswegian humour. It kept my young impressionable mind ablaze! I was inspired by two of my colleagues in particular – John Bond, an...
How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

...change over time and providing information and advice that is relevant to their needs at the time. Using every opportunity to identify carers. If you don’t know who is a carer to start with, you can’t make sure that they get the information and support to which they are entitled. Many of the services that might be expected to identify who is in this position are...