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Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters
Languages

Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters

...human geography; historically, once an area is poor, it tends to stay that way. Yet deprivation statistics and public opinion surveys cannot tell us exactly how places become associated with inequality, how that association is reinforced and reproduced, and, ultimately, how the deprivation in an area becomes transformed into a characteristic of the people who live there....
Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan

...human figure at all. She is compared with a series of physical objects and abstract values. Does this pillar, fire, wall, ‘knot of love’ have an independent identity? It seems that all individuality is erased by the woman’s role in the home. This is after all, ‘any woman’. While we might acknowledge that there is some truth in this idea that motherhood involves...
Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...human emotion, are the key themes of the film. But whereas the film depicts the lifestyles of the characters as akin to that of 1970s rock stars, complete with modern attitudes about sexual freedom, it is also full of images of unsettling eroticism which act as the catalyst for the psychological unrest which haunts their stay at the villa: Henry Fuseli’s painting The...
EdTech Evidence: What works and why
Education & Development

EdTech Evidence: What works and why

...human rights perspective and what happens to data. Given that today’s EdTech relies on data to deliver personalised or customised experiences, the laws and regulations that EdTech needs to follow are those of other data processors. Questions around data privacy, security, ownership, and secure storage are important, as well as questions specifically relevant to AI....
Calling the game: Sexism in World Cup punditry
Health, Sports & Psychology

Calling the game: Sexism in World Cup punditry

...human rights activist, directly invoked the #MeToo movement when she expressed support for women who are trying to break into the masculine world of football and media punditry. Debate about sexual politics and sexism has shifted the debate onto gender in the press box rather than on the pitch. Gendered characteristics such as voice should not be invoked to exclude women...
Phobos – an asteroid masquerading as a moon of Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

Phobos – an asteroid masquerading as a moon of Mars?

...humans to Mars’ moons yet) have only made the story more unclear. This highlights the need for a future in-situ mission to analyse material on the surface to shed light on this conundrum. The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), along with the space agencies of France and Germany, are looking to do just that! Their Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, set for launch in...
Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?
Money & Business

Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?

...human cost as well. Call centres are a top consumer gripe. The CEO of the British consumer association Which? said: “Unfortunately, poor customer service from call centres has become a 21st-century bugbear for too many people.” One respondent in a study by the National Consumer Council in the UK summed it up: “I think just about everyone in the world hates call...
Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...humans with the world around them. [A reproduction of the elephant clock in the Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai ]A reproduction of the elephant clock in the Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai Morrissey’s eye remains acute for the small details of social history. You can hear this as she reads her poem ‘The Millihelen’. Note in particular its extraordinary visceral description of the...