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Five ways to mark Menstrual Health Day
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways to mark Menstrual Health Day

...courses and qualifications. The piece is part of the ‘Free to Bleed: Data Driven Advocacy and Art for Menstrual Justice’ project, an Open University and Vagina Museum collaboration funded by the Open Societal Challenges initiative. The article also relates to Open University law modules including W340: Law, Society, and Culture, and W350: Exploring Legal Boundaries....
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The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911
Society, Politics & Law

The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911

...courses Background The Singer Manufacturing Company was one of the first multi-national companies. From their US base they expanded to Scotland in 1864, starting the assembly of sewing machines at a small factory just off John Street in Glasgow. Growing demand for their machines led them to transfer production to a new plant in Bridgeton before constructing a massive new...
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Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...course structural and economic contexts making it possible for members of our society to collect and hoard so many objects: First, people at all income levels now can afford many more material possessions than they could 30 years ago. So, in real terms, household expenditure and incomes have doubled since 1971 and the prices of food and consumer durables, e.g. electronics...
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Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...courses Environment: journeys through a changing world (U116, Block 3: Nile Limits), Environment: sharing a dynamic planet (DST206) and Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context (DU311). Part 2 of Coping on the Coast will draw upon aspects of Dr Wadsley's research on 'Sounding Coastal Change', an AHRC-funded project currently running on the Norfolk...
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Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...course. He can make the downturn itself his priority and cut taxes, or increase spending to get the economy moving again. Or he can shrug and do nothing. Roughly speaking Osborne cut at the beginning of the last parliament and shrugged at the end. This time it looks as if it will be the other way round: 2019-20 is the year when a £20 billion deficit is now forecast to...
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The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...course, is a gross over-simplification of an outcome which resulted from a complex set of inter-related factors. Various suggestions have been put forward to explain the Leave vote as a whole, including wealth inequality, an educational divide, young vs old, the influence of the right-wing print media, and a trans-national revolt against established elites. These would...
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Sperm counts
Nature & Environment

Sperm counts

...courses and qualifications. [Zeron Gibson and Mike Leahy] Lab Rats Mike Leahy and Zeron Gibson Although I'm a biologist, I rarely think much about what the cloudy white stuff contains, but in fact semen is far more complex than my endearing childhood image of mini tadpoles swimming around in thin wallpaper paste. There are many features of human semen that are very...
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Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...course, such rights are available in the first place). They are also likely to include terms to the effect that you are responsible for outputs generated using the tool. You should review the service providers terms and conditions and terms of service for each GenAI-enabled service you use. Finally, in contrast to a qualified lawyer who is regulated by a disciplinary body...
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