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Nine top tips on talking about sex… for young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nine top tips on talking about sex… for young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition

...concept] It’s important that you know what your rights are. The Sexuality Guidance and Standards (3rd Edition) will help you understand where professionals stand in supporting you. Do your research and be prepared to be assertive about your right to explore sex, sexuality, intimacy and relationships. 8: Be you [Disability Pride ] You are you, a unique individual. You...
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...concepts employed to interpret the thing emerge at the same time. This introduces a strong sense of fragility and unpredictability into the process, but also genuine moments of discovery, where one can glimpse alternative geographies and ways of making these more tangible. Kim Kullman is a Lecturer in Geography and has recently worked on the new module ‘Environment and...
Fake news in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Fake news in Wales

...concept has become a hugely contested issue over the past few years and has led to a wave of global soul-searching. The debates over truth and deception in public life are encapsulated in the crisis over ‘fake news’ – a term that first broke into public consciousness around 2016. The idea of politicians and other public figures playing fast and loose with the truth...
Inside the mind of Trump's true believers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Inside the mind of Trump's true believers

...conception of the prospects and potentialities of the future” and “be wholly ignorant of the difficulties involved in their vast undertaking. Experience is a handicap.” Much of Trump’s campaign was based on promises of vast change, such as the immediate repeal of Obamacare. These promises never took into account the great difficulties of radical change. Indeed, in...
Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...concept but do we consider how it plays out in an interview situation? Analyses of interview data tend to treat talk as an original, individual, and personal output, discounting how much of it is borrowed and rehearsed (Taylor 2012), and also how it is shaped by social norms. In today's social media culture, people might seem less inhibited, more ready to reveal personal...
Doctor Who and human history
History & The Arts

Doctor Who and human history

...concepts such as the TARDIS, and alien creatures like the Daleks or Cybermen. But, as the Doctor says to Rose of the TARDIS at the end of the first episode of the 2005 relaunch: ‘Did I mention that it also travels in time?’ Doctor Who has always had a close relationship with human history. When first conceived, Doctor Who was meant to have two types of stories –...
Academic versus AI
Science, Maths & Technology

Academic versus AI

...concepts with greater ease. Additionally, AI can automate administrative tasks, freeing up educators to focus on more interactive and personalized teaching methods. However, these rewards come hand in hand with risks that demand careful consideration. Concerns about data privacy and security persist as institutions amass vast amounts of student information. The misuse or...
The Borders of Astrobiology
Science, Maths & Technology

The Borders of Astrobiology

...concepts of environmental ethics to outer space are explored in this article...Find out more about The Open University's Science qualifications. AstrobiologyOU aspires to understand how, and where, life might be found and to address the scientific and ethical challenges faced by astrobiology-related exploration missions. In November 2021, we hosted a series of three...