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Cultural differences in mental health?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cultural differences in mental health?

...account the impact of race and culture when assessing and treating the people who use their services. In his book, Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy (Routledge 2004) Psychiatrist and anthropologist Richard Warner has compared rates of recovery from schizophrenia in different parts of the world and, perhaps surprisingly, has concluded that...
Business Bursts: Failure
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Failure

...into account as well. It’s quite complex, so it’s not really surprising in my view that, particularly if the recession starts to bite again, that we’ll be looking at a lot more reality, looking at more failures amongst the self-employed, amongst the very small businesses. (3’49”) Find out what The Open University Business School can do for you and your business...
Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?

...accounts, automation is coming. While the West frets about drivers losing their jobs to automated cars, the conveners of this Summit - the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the World Wide Web Foundation and the UK innovation foundation Nesta - fret about the effects of automation on the developing world. They fear that poor countries will find an abrupt closure of...
Designing interactive systems for dogs
Digital & Computing

Designing interactive systems for dogs

...account for such a variety. The design of domestic appliances could be friendlier to dogs, particularly to dogs whose job it is to assist their human partners, by ensuring that each type of control (e.g. light switches) looks the same throughout the house (rather than changing style), uses colours that dogs can see (rather than colours that stand out to humans), is big...
Mental Health: Lennox Castle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental Health: Lennox Castle

...account of the riot from Colin Sproul, a former member of the nursing staff at Lennox Castle Resident's perspective: Margaret An interview with a former patient of Lennox castle. Nurse's perspective: Colin An interview with a former member of the nursing staff at Lennox castle. Resident's perspective: Jimmy An interview with a former patient, who was sent to Lennox when...
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...account. Malware Finally, there are a number of terms associated with software that attempts to harm computers in different ways. Collectively these are known as ‘malware’ (a contraction of malicious software). Depending on what the malware does, different terms are used to in relation to malware. For example: ransomware is malware that demands payment in order to...
Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...account of the noise, and they cannot open the windows on account of the stench. But Members of Parliament are much better off than many other classes. They can get away for part of the day, and breathe fresh air. The unfortunate people who live close to the banks of the stream must, most of them, stay continually within its baleful influence. Cholera may, happily, not...
The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...accountability [22nd June 1948, Some of the first Immigrants from the Caribbean island of Jamaica arrive at Tilbury, London, on board the ' Empire Windrush'] The policy and its political fallout is largely treated as if it was an accident, an oversight, and a personal tragedy for Amber Rudd. But, such policies are not accidents. They are the result of an indifference to...