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Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?

...out as school libraries, as well as garden sheds, boats, baths and sofas to enrich classroom reading areas. These physical spaces overtly indicate to parents, governors, Ofsted inspectors and the children that the school values reading, but is this institutional demonstration enough? Reading for pleasure is more closely associated with intrinsic motivation and some...
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On the inside of the rebellion against climate change
Nature & Environment

On the inside of the rebellion against climate change

...out-group membership and how these can lead to hostility between different groups. Looking at XR events over the week there was little evidence of hostility between XR members and the police. While police arrested protestors, police handled the arrest sensitively without force, and protestor did not resist arrest, remaining non-violent throughout. The groups from which...
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Researching cycling in the US & the UK
Society, Politics & Law

Researching cycling in the US & the UK

...out on the stoop, the front steps of your house, in the summer and I think people were saying stuff like, in New York you have to care about public space because the accommodation is so expensive, you are not going to sit inside and you can’t afford to go to a pub all evening. Interviewer: How do you see this Overseas Institutional Visit contributing to your work in the...
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What can we expect at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can we expect at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games?

...out course that features curves and deep bowls. They often include halfpipes and quarter pipes. This is the event where we will see Team GB’s youngest ever Olympian Sky Brown who will be just 13 years old when she competes. She is a very modern athlete who has a huge Instagram following and learns her moves on YouTube rather than having a coach. What about Team GB’s...
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The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies
OpenLearn Ireland

The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies

...out a third were from other Protestant denominations and included Anglicans and Quakers from all parts of Ireland (Fitzgerald, 2020, p. 43). Irish or Scots-Irish? For contemporary observers, Protestant migrants from Ireland who arrived in America in the 1700s were an identifiable group with their own cultural characteristics. They were commonly referred to as ‘Irish’,...
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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...out in front?...[All hail the duck leader] Leadership comes easy to some... Leadership has been in the spotlight as never before, as people around the world look to their leaders in all spheres of social, political and organisational life. Rather than help, though, leaders often seem to be part of the problem. When it comes to politicians, fingers are often pointed at the...
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Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland

...out for how these mixtures of old and new are bound together with the ‘character' of the place: its social composition, its historical legacy, and its role in a changing national economic pattern. Synthesis The way in which places retain their uniqueness within wider systems of interdependence is an important methodological issue within geography and is approached...
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In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing
Nature & Environment

In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing

...out our fishermen at the first chance they get". Acknowledgements, sources and references Acknowledgement Dr Gerry Mooney would like to thank Dr Peter Wood for his background research with this article. Sources Parker, G. and Brunsden, J. (2020) ‘UK fishing industry caught between rock and hard place on trade talks’, Financial Times, December 1, 2020:
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