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Mental Health: Lennox Castle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental Health: Lennox Castle

...Scotland housed over 1600 patients in purpose built multi-occupancy villas, and most staff lived on site or in nearby Lennoxtown. Oral historian Howard Mitchell started his working life there, as a member of the hospital's nursing staff. In the tracks on this album, he looks back at the history of the hospital, and talks to former patients and staff about their...
Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983

...and Scotland and in the States, developing existing industries such as the tweed and the spinning here, promoting industries from outside the area that came in to give employment and that gives skills. It’s along those lines starting from a very weak base, trying to get marketable products, that is the exercise basically. Explore the articles in this collection ....
Soil could save Earth from overheating
Nature & Environment

Soil could save Earth from overheating

...Scotland report in Nature journal that with a few changes to agricultural practice, there would be room for another 8 billion tonnes. “In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change in the 21st century, we need heavyweight allies,” says Dave Reay, a geoscientist and specialist in carbon management at Edinburgh University. “One of the most powerful is right beneath...
Charity Reed
Education & Development

Charity Reed

...Scotland. ‘I’m a 51-year-old mother of two grown-up sons and the relocation, several years ago now, enabled me – finally – to do the degree I’ve wanted to do since I was young, but couldn’t afford to,’ she explained... and as Charity embarked on her English Language and Literature BA with the Open University, she also discovered OpenLearn! ‘I hadn’t...
Article 5 mins
The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries
Society, Politics & Law

The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries

...Scotland has an industrial heritage that belies its image today as primarily a market town, regional centre and hub for the rural communities of Dumfries and Galloway. In particular, the town has a rich past as a location for the manufacturing of tweed cloth and hosiery. Alongside this lies another important legacy – a place of industrial disputes and trade union...
Digital innovation in social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital innovation in social care and social work

...Scotland – have put in place their own strategies and priorities for involving technology in their health and social care. This is because each UK nation has the opportunity to govern its own health and social care sector, which means that there will be different focuses and different approaches to how technology becomes part of care. For example, Northern Ireland and...
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...Scotland, 2018). The internet has also provided us with more choice and control. Advances in technology including mobiles, smartphones and robotics are just a few examples that can change how we manage our health and interact with the health service. As you can see, digital technology and innovations have the potential to change not only how we manage our health but also...
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...Scotland and Northern Ireland). Choose one and consider the extent to which the partnership meets the criteria of the conventional definition provided above. Try to identify the benefits of the partnership and then write a paragraph in the word document provided on why the partnership may or may not bring about these benefits and whether a partnership is the most...
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