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A difficult conversation to have about racism
Education & Development

A difficult conversation to have about racism

...becomes more difficult when my friends and I are targeted on a night out by the bouncers on the door. Or when I’m booking holidays on a scale of “how racist” the place is to visit. If you know, you know. I remember being on my way to Uni and experiencing the joys of St Pancras Station. A man was on his bike and just as I walked out of the ticket barrier, he nearly...
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Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves

...become known. That disbandment of the Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment would fit within a two-year plan to end Operation Banner, the Army’s decades-long support role to the police, and would be part of major changes to the security landscape and the making of a peace time garrison. I was told of lots of discussions going on involving the Northern...
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Supporting women musicians in the workplace
History & The Arts

Supporting women musicians in the workplace

...become more flexible and inclusive, adopting new policies, or putting staff networks in place. In this article, you will first consider how setting up a mentoring or shadowing scheme can help to support women’s career development. You will then consider how you can better support parents and careers and those going through menopause and perimenopause. The power of...
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Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms
OpenLearn Ireland

Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms

...becomes an intimate experience and private music activities in the home turn into social music activities in a public space. How do online fandoms differ from the music fandoms of the past? Music fandoms have their origins in the mid-19th century when a cult of celebrity grew around figures like Hungarian composer Franz Liszt and Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. However,...
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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...become more effective in your work and your influence with others. Empathy Do you understand what motivates other people, even those from different backgrounds? Are you sensitive to others’ needs? Are you able to put yourself in the shoes of others? Attunement Do you listen attentively and think about how others feel? Are you attuned to others’ moods? Organisational...
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The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa

...become incorporated into the ice. Knowing this process has occurred (and is possibly still occurring) on Europa means scientists can find out more about the ocean’s likely composition by mimicking these water-rock interactions using computer modelling or laboratory simulation experiments. For example, researchers in AstrobiologyOU have used geochemical modelling to...
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Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics
Languages

Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics

...become president his message to China would be, "Listen you mother*****s, we’re going to tax you 25 per cent!". And of course, midway through the 2016 campaign, audio of him explaining that, "I did try and f*** her" and that he grabbed women, "by the p****" was endlessly broadcast around the world. For almost any other politician this would have sunk their candidacy...
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The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done

...become about the importance of this that he then started working with broadcasters to explicitly work socially positive narratives into productions. But what does sitting passively watching adults being goaded into interpersonal strife, denigration and dysregulated emotional outbursts do for the million or more viewers? Can we not expect at least some degree of...
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