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United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool
Society, Politics & Law

United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool

...working-class children swimming for almost 100 years; Nicola Fisher, a local teacher who lived on Calder Street who had used the slipper baths for a hot bath for many years before internal bathrooms were installed into her tenement; Jean Adair, a daily swimmer and receptionist at the local Health Centre who attended the pool twice weekly for over 30 year with her disabled...
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Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...work in a place with no phone or internet access. My letters to him were therefore vital. In an odd way, losing Alan has given me gifts. I am more empathetic and less driven than I was. I try to appreciate the simpler things in life each day. What also helped was that some people gave me gifts. They meant the world to me. One friend gave me a tiny book called The Gift of...
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DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...works and how it can be used to catch a killer...When a murder has occurred, forensic science can be essential for proving the identity of both victim and killer. Some killers have wrongly assumed that the absence of a complete body, or the removal of distinguishing features such as fingerprints, would prevent the identification of a victim. The combination of different...
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The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...work and caring responsibilities. Students can take up to sixteen years to complete their degree given the modular based study routes offered by the OU. The key aim is to `remove all inequalities in access and outcomes for students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds´The OU is committed to reducing the gap and is guided by the principles set out within...
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Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...work existing stereotypes to make sense of their own experiences and sometimes to justify their own actions. The peer group is therefore a place where children actively make use of existing ideas and beliefs to construct their own meanings. So what can parents do? There are three main things that parents can do in helping to challenge any negative attitudes their children...
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Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...work with them, to help them to change whatever psychological deficit it is that brought them there in the first place." Given Paul's high profile it seems unbelievable that he hasn't spent his entire life working in this field, yet he points out that "I came to psychology probably later than most people start their academic careers. I had a wife, I had two children, I...
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20 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

20 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...work. 5. There are more than 900 free courses to choose from There are currently over 900 free courses on OpenLearn, covering everything from health and psychology to languages, science, history, money and the arts. So if you've ever said, “There's nothing to learn”… we're afraid we're going to have to disagree. 6. Completing every OpenLearn course would take you...
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Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...work, not least because colleagues and I have written about civic cultures and the modalities of place-making, and I also wrote about the ways in which symbols of Afro-Caribbean, South American and British identities can speak of notional combined experiences often as digital and creative citizens. In a published conversation I had with Gil prior to the Tate Exchange...
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