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The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982

...out more about The Open University's Social Sciences courses In December 1981, the Plessey Company announced plans to shut down their Capacitors plant in Bathgate. The factory – which employed predominantly women assembly workers – had been downsized substantially throughout the 1970s. Despite this, the decision to cease operations completely stunned the remaining...
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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...out the light, sounds and breeze, and it approximates a womb-like experience. Ideally, the patient stays in this hut for 40 days drinking nothing but milk from a black goat and a special rejuvenation formula. The ingredients contain Amla, an Indian gooseberry, amongst a number of other secret ingredients. According to the arabetic texts, during this process the body will...
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Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music

...out about The Open University's Languages, cultures and communication courses. Folk music is music that is rarely written for profit, music that has endured, often passed down by oral tradition, investing a sense of identity in artist and listener alike. Folk music has imitation at its core. Its narratives and characters are usually already known to listeners, and they...
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Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...out of 13 particular targets (SDG3 Tracker, 2020) that are aimed to specify the goal 3: Target 3.1: Maternal care and reproductive services to reduce maternal mortality; Target 3.2: End of preventable deaths of children under 5 years of age; Target 3.4: Screening and care for non-communicable diseases; Target 3.8: Universal health coverage, including financial risk...
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Astrobiology from the ground up
Science, Maths & Technology

Astrobiology from the ground up

...out to other disciplines and other researchers because it makes everything so much more interesting. There are a couple of areas where some of the most interesting questions in astrobiology intersect prominently with my work and my thinking. The first is around Indigenous peoples, their environmental worldviews, their practices and cosmologies. My entry point into this...
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Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...out more about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications. Astrobiology isn’t a subject on the school curriculum or even in many universities. Could you tell me something about your journey to astrobiology? It was a long journey. A very long journey indeed! I was always fascinated by rocks and minerals, how they formed and how they behaved, so I studied...
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Wellbeing for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing for Work

...out our work, for example more remote/home working, fewer people in the office with social distance, combined with colleagues and team members being ‘let go’ and being made redundant, and organisations being restructured. All of these are often unknown and out of our control. When psychologists talk of control, we talk about the locus of control. Locus of control is...
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Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...out to the health of the cables? KEITH PERRYMAN Exactly, the difference being that we have fifteen microphones placed over the entire length of each cable and we’re listening all the time. ALICE ROBERTS Continuously, twenty-four hours? KEITH PERRYMAN Absolutely. ALICE ROBERTS The microphones began their round-the-clock vigil in August 2006, and straightaway the...
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