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Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon

...Research Press. Harris, D. L. (ed.) (2000) Non-Death Loss and Grief: Context and Clinical Implications, Routledge. Harris, D. L. (2022) ‘Political Grief’, Illness, Crisis & Loss, 30(3), pp. 572-89. Kumar, R. (2021) ‘The Many Faces of Grief: A Systematic Literature Review of Grief During the Covid-19 Pandemic’, Illness, Crisis & Loss, 31(1), pp. 100-119. Thompson,...
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The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...research student at The Open University, explores African-Caribbean traditions and religions in this article...Transcript African and African-Caribbean religions and the issue of stigmatisation [George Baxter, The Reverend Robert Moffat, 1 April 1843] The Reverend Robert Moffat by George Baxter (1843) Historically, African traditional religions, and consequently...
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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...research fellow at SOAS, pointed out, modern yoga practice has much in common with exercise methods such as Swedish and Danish gymnastic drills that were popular for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yoga also offered relief from what one yoga teacher described in 1976 as “housewife syndrome” which included “monotony and lack of...
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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...picture. Higher Education does. Not engaging with the problem of unconscious bias in mainstream education is devastating for both young people and the higher education sector as HE access is not even considered by these excluded cohorts. Universities lead the way in education. Could there be a way that they can use their research to lead the way in calling for change?...
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COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...research and development in renewable energy. But even if the UAE was to achieve net zero by some measure domestically, continuing to export oil internationally means it will be burned somewhere, and so the climate crisis will continue to grow. Self-interest Is disappointment a foregone conclusion in Dubai? Already one of the hottest places in the world, parts of the...
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How Bitcoin works
Digital & Computing

How Bitcoin works

...research as possible to determine if they are trustworthy and that they can process your payments. Currently, Bitcoin exchanges are not regulated in the same manner as banks and foreign currency exchanges so you have very little protection if anything were to go wrong. Exchange rates It’s probably too early to tell if Bitcoin is around for the long term. As far as we...
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Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...researchers. I love those, because it was more senior colleagues taking time for me when I was beginning my career that got me to where I am today... including to Mars! Right after a late lunch, though, my favourite part of the week starts, as I am on the operations team for today’s rover planning – rover, which rover? The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity....
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Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...researchers of the ENACT project. Rutvica Andrijasevic conducts the interview with Engin Isin, who in turn conducts the other interviews. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT): Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate a familiarity with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs