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Introducing professional practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing professional practice

...account medical, psychological and social factors A Culture of Blame: Changing Climate of Social Work Patrick Eyre, a social worker talks about 'the blame culture' in social work A Culture of Blame: Lack of Trust and a negative image Patrick talks about how the lack of a climate of trust has had a specific impact on child protection A Culture of Blame: The way forward...
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What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...accounts of far-flung lands were widely read during the Enlightenment, serving, for example, as important sources for Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s seminalEncyclopédie. The contents of the letters were various, but the Jesuits’ mission being what it was, it is perhaps not surprising that religion figured prominently, with many accounts of what would...
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Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?

...United Nations University, the world produced 42 million tonnes of e-waste in 2014, with Asia accounting for 16 million tonnes. Currently e-waste is dumped in landfills, incinerated or treated with chemicals to recover valuable materials, but these are not regarded as environment-friendly processes. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
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Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...account (which pays interest) or share holdings (which usually pay dividends). By contrast, non-financial assets are those assets – usually tangible, physical items – that do not normally provide a flow of income, such as property, jewellery or an expensive work of art. Usually in order to obtain money from these assets you would have to sell them. Assets can be...
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Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution
Society, Politics & Law

Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution

...accountable by the wider public, and users and workers govern platforms together. But democratising the sharing economy is no mean feat. Research I’ve conducted with colleagues at the Open University and the University of Leeds shows how platforms can work. But they also face the challenge of maintaining their democratic nature and not becoming centralised and more...
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Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...account of NHS working today from both staff and patient perspectives. For me, it provided a lens to see and experience the complexity of meeting today’s healthcare practices." Dr Rajvinder Samra, academic consultant on the programme and a Lecturer in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language studies, gives us a view of the OU's involvement in the series and what...
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Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy

...accounts and online blogs described how, during the occupation of the main Sol square in Madrid, different committees first met at 1 p.m. before a general assembly and public protest at 8 p.m. every evening. People gathered to hear the assembly opinions and news, with subsequent decisions made by majority. Everyone had the right to speak and to vote but not to veto. The...
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Should Economics and the Environment work together?
Society, Politics & Law

Should Economics and the Environment work together?

...account. Now, I love the view across my local countryside for the aspect and the openness. How I personally value it hasn’t changed due to the UK National Ecosystem Assessment allowing its worth to be seen as an economically-valuable carbon sink, or a habitat to support insects that pollenate adjacent crops. But the fact it can now be recognized in this way will help it...
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