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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
History & The Arts

A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather

...research. It has acquired an obligation to generate commercial revenue, however, and in 2011 it became part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The Met gets its income through providing a range of specialised forecasts, for example on behalf of the aviation and insurance industries, but the BBC contract remains a key part of its work. At a time when...
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A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
Society, Politics & Law

A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians

...researching and writing about how to improve patient care reset the path of geriatrics in the UK and, eventually, more widely in the world. South Asian Heritage is thus woven into the fabric of this most British institution, the National Health Service. Acknowledgement: The study 'Overseas-trained doctors and the development of geriatric medicine', ESRC funded RES...
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Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
Digital & Computing

Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University

...research into Level 1 Computing modules revealed the structural and institutional barriers behind the degree awarding gap and practical ways to close it...The COVID-19 pandemic shone a harsh light on the entrenched inequalities that shape the educational experiences of ethnic minority students in UK higher education. At The Open University, our eSTEeM-funded project...
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How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at The Open University, believes specialised text analysis software can help us develop new insights into classic literature...When Mary Shelley published her iconic Gothic novel two hundred years ago in 1818, she probably did not imagine it would continue to be read and reprinted into the twenty-first century. Like many other works...
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Improving the everyday lives of carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving the everyday lives of carers

...research has shown that despite the various white papers from the UK Government supporting carers and the introduction of the Carer’s Assessment and Carer’s Allowance, many carers feel undervalued by society and looked down on by some people because of their caring role. Some carers, especially those who are full-time carers, feel excluded from society and may also...
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Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...Research. “With utilities, you start providing services over a certain network and you’re kind of stuck there; they have no growth potential, and people don’t want to invest in them.” He spoke with LSE Business Review managing editor Helena Vieira during the Mobile Money and Financial Development Conference at LSE. Could you tell me briefly about your digital...
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Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...research with this article. References Kirsty Hughes (ed) ‘An Independent Scotland in the EU: Issues for Accession’, The Scottish Centre on European Relations, March 2020, available at: www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-03/An%20Independent%20Scotland%20in%20the%20EU.pdf Drainey, N. ‘Meet the Scots who can’t wait to finish Brexit and...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...Research Centre in a classic series of experiments during the 1980s. PETE SCHULTZ We can produce a hole in the ground. We can produce it with a very small object. A quarter-inch ball might produce a 20-inch diameter crater. It’ll look conical in shape, but that won’t be necessarily what a lunar impact crater will look like. Here’s an example of a lunar creator. And...
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