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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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Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?
Science, Maths & Technology

Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?

...account of fear I was looking for so my research progressed and so did my book. On reflection, I found researching and writing about fear – from the personal to the planetary – exhausting and scary. I had to go into some areas which I found personally worrisome and at times found myself anxious and fearful. Fear was not easy to tie down and studying it meant looking...
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What is the 2015 Autumn Statement all about?
Society, Politics & Law

What is the 2015 Autumn Statement all about?

...account deficit) and when the private sector is investing less than it saves. Over the past five years the UK has continued to run its traditional current account deficit, and private investment has only belatedly started to recover from its post-crisis slump. Meanwhile, the amount that companies are stockpiling on their balance sheets is on the up. So unless investors or...
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What is a password manager - and should I be using one?
Digital & Computing

What is a password manager - and should I be using one?

...accounts will be secure? [A padlock holds paperwork together] How secure are your important documents online? What is a password manager - and how can a password manager help me? A password manager is an application running on your computer that stores passwords for you. Very simple password managers allow stored passwords to be copied and pasted into log-in boxes. More...
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Kant on trust
History & The Arts

Kant on trust

...account of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, who placed honesty and trustworthiness at the heart of his theory of how we should live. Kant (1724-1804) spent his whole life in Königsberg, in Prussia, and taught at the local university. He produced some of the most profound works of philosophy ever written, in metaphysics and aesthetics as well as in ethics, and is...
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