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Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...think of the series...[hospital staff with a machine] Julie Messenger, academic consultant on the programme and Head of Nursing at The Open University, on what makes Hospital different from other programmes: "Unlike other hospital programmes which often focus predominately on patient experiences, production teams for ‘Hospitals’ had open access to all areas and all...
Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions
Languages

Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions

...think he’s funny.’). The next instance of code-switching from English back into Arabic provides a second judgement restricting the scope of the first one (‘but I don’t find all things he says funny’). In the example, the speaker is using both languages to convey her message but she is clearly not assigning a particular function to one language or another. In...
The Experience and Memory of 11 November 1918
History & The Arts

The Experience and Memory of 11 November 1918

...thinking of the dead’.[10] In Testament of Youth (1933), Vera Britain – who had served as a nurse during the war – describes how she ‘went on automatically washing the dressing bowls in the annex outside my hut…The war was over; a new age was beginning; but the dead were the dead and would never return’.[11] These perspectives chime with contemporary views of...
Is Europe letting down Eritrean refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Europe letting down Eritrean refugees?

...thinks the partnership deals are having some “success”, it measures that “success” in terms of border management. However, without substantial improvements in regional economic development coupled with conflict resolution these “successess” will prove to be ephemeral. Dismal track record All this raises the question of whether the EU is simply throwing money...
UK nuclear industry faces Brexit fall-out
Society, Politics & Law

UK nuclear industry faces Brexit fall-out

...think the more probable outcome is simply that the government will find itself with an expensive industrial problem and an embarrassing diplomatic mess. The unintended consequence for the British nuclear industry of last year’s referendum vote to leave the EU is that the decision will also take the UK out of the Euratom treaty that protects the EU’s nuclear industry...
Heritage in war
History & The Arts

Heritage in war

...thinking until relatively recently: ‘An American commander, faced with taking the Louvre from a defending enemy, unquestionably would blow it apart or burn it down without hesitation if such would save the life of one of his men (T.R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War, Kindle Edition, loc. 3401)’. Although nobody would deny that soldiers, at least those fighting in a just...
Why is ball tampering such a big deal for cricket?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is ball tampering such a big deal for cricket?

...think they would be caught, or were not deterred by the possible sanctions. Leading by example In several cases of cheating, it has been senior players that have induced their younger teammates to cheat. Two former cricket captains, South Africa’s Hansie Cronje and Pakistan’s Salman Butt, both recruited younger, less experienced players in their attempts to manipulate...
Young people are not apathetic
Society, Politics & Law

Young people are not apathetic

...think otherwise. So many young people are aware of the conditions facing them under capitalism in the West – they are living them. They are, in many ways, an atomised and fragmented group of people. A key reason for this is the current employment climate. [Protests in Barkers Pool, Sheffield, 12th March 2011.] Protests in Barkers Pool, Sheffield, 12th March, 2011. It is...