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Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...Research Center study from earlier this year, more than 40 percent of American adults get their news from Facebook. Facebook — and its algorithm — are extremely powerful and exert huge amounts of control over what type of news coverage a significant number of its users see. So what does it mean when it’s promoting blatantly false news and clickbait aggregation? How...
Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol
History & The Arts

Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol

...Research Group Wales, sy'n uno ac yn cefnogi ymchwilwyr a phobl frwdfrydig dros hanes LHDTC+ Cymru. Mae llyfrau gan Norena Shopland yn cynnwys A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment, Forbidden Lives: LGBT Stories from Wales a A Practical Guide to Searching LGBTQIA Historical Records (LGBTQ Histories. Dysgwch fwy ar OpenLearn [AC...
Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...research showing in one English Health Authority 11% of one parent families were headed up by nurses (Delamothe,1988). Remembering the nurses strike of 1988 The third dispute of 1988 occurred in December and was solely a nurse’s dispute on the issue of pay after nurses were promised significant pay rises but once again found that the small print of the regrading...
The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...research further. This became the Roots Oral History Project resulting in recorded interviews with men and women of the Windrush generation. With the support of the African Caribbean Language Unit in 8411 Moss Side Community Education Centre, a selection of these were published in 1992 in a booklet called ‘Rude Awakening: African Caribbean Settlers in Manchester - an...
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...research. This is not to say that everything that was argued or written was productive or ‘correct’. There was a lot of verbiage, fashionable silliness and toeing the line. Other arguments were often marginalised as off-message and some immensely significant thinkers were treated as ‘dead dogs’, only to return later full of vigour. Aesthetics was treated as...
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...research sector. My big interest in mental health is severe mental illness and psychosis in particular, and the links between psychotic experience and various types of adversity, including social adversity. CIARAN MULHOLLAND My name is Ciaran Mulholland. I’m a consultant psychiatrist. A psychiatrist, just in case any of the listeners are unaware, a psychiatrist is first...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...research on the dynamics of employee engagement in the working population of the UK. It suggests that engagement is strongly influenced by such factors as the life stage and size of companies. While reading, make some notes and consider the question: to what extent does this reflect your experience? The time of your life Brown, A., Roddan, M., Jordan S. and Nilsson, L....
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...research and expertise from early childhood academics at The Open University and professionals at Early Years Wales...The first two years of a child’s life are a time of incredible change and development. This free course helps practitioners to understand these changes and explore how they can support babies and toddlers in early childhood settings. This course draws on...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs