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Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities

...work, which we have been exploring in our Ageing Well Public Talks series, which has now been running for five years. As part of The Open University and The Parks Trust Milton Keynes’ collaboration, we have been focussing on how greenspaces are crucial resources to help us into ageing well. It is well noted that greenspaces enhance the health of those who engage with...
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Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...working through geography, supplies a contextual understanding which is really important to understanding present day and indeed historical environmental issues. The second and slightly more, I suppose, academic answer is that in this module we are interested in the way in which different environmental issues are entangled with society, in tracing those through the...
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How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful

...worked with the Open University to develop a dementia-friendly Spotter Sheet for use at Great Linford Manor Park in Milton Keynes. The sheet is designed to accompany a walk in the park, or even just a relaxing rest on a park bench as a way to engage with surroundings and take notice of the wider world. Sometimes it can feel very isolating to be caring for a loved one and...
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Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two

...work in large urban centres and inner cities with high crime rates and where ordinary people are fearful of being victimised? Abolitionism is about building communities of inclusion and strengthening social bonds. We are less likely to be fearful of ‘crime’ if we feel a sense of connection to our local communities. Fear and insecurity around ‘crime’ are often...
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Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Society, Politics & Law

Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap

...work to reduce inequality and enhance equity. Cutting wages, in work and out of work benefits, pensions and so on is also about restoring conditions for profit and wealth accumulation. This amounts to little more than the transfer of wealth and power into ever fewer hands – the consolidation and advancement of the economic and political interests of the already rich and...
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Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

...work for them as well) but at conferences and work-in-progress seminars especially at postgraduate level, there is that sense of maturity, of being able to show up, respect others’ opinions and respect the hours and hours of work that might go into a poster or a presentation or workshop and being about to generate a sense of community. I certainly felt that on...
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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...work in ‘decolonial computing’ (Ali, 2014, 2016) is informed by an attempt to “decolonially question concerning computing” asking whether computing needs to be decolonised, and if so, how such decolonisation should be effected. At the outset, it might appear somewhat of a stretch to describe computing as ‘colonial’ given that colonialism as a phenomenon tied...
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An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...work on trying to find as many planets as possible around the stars closest to the Sun. Galaxies tend to fall into two groups: spiral galaxies (Figure 19), such as the Milky Way, which contain stars of a variety of ages, including young stars that are still forming elliptical galaxies (Figure 20), which contain mostly older stars and look like fuzzy blobs. Spiral galaxies...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs