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Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...opened it with an interactive online tool. Pieter Pauw, an environmental scientist at the DIE who led the research team to develop the tool, says in the released statement, “The (I)NDCs are a cornerstone for implementing the Paris Agreement. But apart from countries’ overall mitigation targets, the content of (intended) nationally determined contributions has been...
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Prospecting for water on the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Prospecting for water on the Moon

...Open University is at the forefront of a new wave of missions to the Moon. I lead a team working with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop new instruments to prospect for lunar water. The first project is building for ESA a miniature science laboratory called ProSPA which will land near the south pole in 2024. Samples drilled from on and below the surface will be...
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Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...Open University seminar series, which is funded by the British Psychological Society (BPS). The seminars explore how citizenship is reconfigured in the era of Brexit using insights from social psychology and other social sciences. In a previous contribution to the MiM blog, I considered the value of developing a social psychology of citizenship. In that post, I suggested...
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Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...Open University's Mathematics courses and qualifications Statistics... What is it? or What Are They? Most people have some sort of idea, or at least think they have, about what statistics is. But before we get into that, there’s a basic question to answer: is the word ‘statistics’ singular or plural? It looks like a plural because it ends in ‘s’. But...
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The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation

...Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications. Ageing isn’t easy and it is often made more difficult by a society that values its citizens in terms of their economic contribution. Retirement can bring with it a sense of personal loss of the reputation, status and income associated with employment. It may also be accompanied by society’s loss of interest in...
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Dialogues Across Borders
Society, Politics & Law

Dialogues Across Borders

...Open University and artists Elena Boukouvala and Knut Bry, met while they were volunteering at Pikpa refugee camp in Lesvos in the summer of 2016. They decided to work together with refugees in the camp to tell the story of the refugee experiences in new ways. The result was Dialogues Across Borders, an interactive exhibition sparked from the friendships forged blurring...
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Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University
History & The Arts

Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University

...exciting new perspectives on shamanism and forest ecologies. It seems remarkable that this was the first time Davi Kopenawa had been invited to speak and engage with academics in Europe. I am honoured to have been part of that gathering. This article was originally published on The Open University's Religious Studies blog, 'Contemporary Religion in Historic Perspective'....
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Roadkill: What is an animal’s greatest enemy?
Society, Politics & Law

Roadkill: What is an animal’s greatest enemy?

...Open University at Walton Hall in Buckinghamshire is doing its bit to save wildlife from motorised vehicles. Surely more counties should take actions. Near the old Walton Church on the University campus there is an ancient pond by the inner ring road. The University Estates Department have installed signs warning drivers to take extra care because of a single moorhen...
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