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Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
Education & Development

Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection

...out more read our Annual Report, visit our website and follow us on Twitter. A collaboration between the Faculty of Business and Law’s Open Justice and the Centre for Policing Research and Learning (CPRL) culminated in the OU’s Black History Month event entitled ‘Student voices on race and policing in the US and UK‘. This online event included Open Justice OU...
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Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others
Education & Development

Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others

...out-of-court settlement. The family was dragged into a battle in 2016 when Ruby was 14, and shared their story in an article in The Independent in February 2020. Ruby is not the first or last child that has experienced this. Hair policies that disproportionately impact Black or mixed-race children, compared to other children, are probably illegal, and this has been...
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How are social workers portrayed in the media?
Languages

How are social workers portrayed in the media?

...out to research the language surrounding the profession of social work in the media by carrying out two studies. In the first study, I looked at over 700 UK national newspaper articles which mentioned ‘social worker’, published in 3 months in the middle of 2019. I then read and classified each one as a ‘neutral’, ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ portrayal of the...
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How to keep your kidneys healthy
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to keep your kidneys healthy

...out on a pink background] The kidneys are paired bean-shaped organs located in the lower back region. They have several essential functions, including the removal of waste products and fluids from the body through the production of urine. The kidneys also produce special hormones that regulate our blood pressure, stimulate red blood cell production, and maintain bone...
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Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...out of the oft-repeated experiences of the specific nature of the early relationships between infants and carers and, crucially, that the IWMs persist onwards into childhood and beyond. The argument goes that these expectations about self, other and relationships are carried onwards and outwards to subsequent interactions with other people, providing a template to make...
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Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...out conducting experiments with a full array of scientific instruments, their own senses and perception being among these. Tasting ginger to see if it was as spicy, or undertaking a complex mathematical equation to test mental acuity at altitude, went alongside checking height and air pressure. In some cases, science funding had got them up there in the first place. The...
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The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication
Society, Politics & Law

The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication

...out the phrase ‘Homeland’ from a door mat, that when laid back on the ground collects, on the floor, the soil of the people (in this case migrants, refugees, strangers) who walk on it. To put aside the complexities of that work (which was originally related to the Palestinian plight) what this carpet aims to do is to give a platform where the strangers who come...
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Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...out rewards and pleasure, and what’s more rewarding than your favourite meal, a tasty dessert, or an indulgent snack? Studies using different methods, such as the eye tracking method (Castellanos et al., 2009), the attentional blink paradigm (Piech, Pastorino & Zald, 2010) and dot probe tasks (Placanica, Faunce & Soames Job, 2002), to test what people focus on have...
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