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...open for too long, and easily becomes distracted. However, for me, methodological openness is how I base my findings in a practical understanding of the conditions within which they hold true. By experimenting with new techniques, researchers do not only gain access to additional areas of knowledge, they also gain exposure to alternative ways of thinking about society....

...Open University's Open Degree. On 5 July every year the UK celebrates the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, arguably one of the greatest British achievements of the post-war years. The NHS was particularly lauded during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic with weekly clapping for those who worked there. The National Health Service has always been...

...education and health. But the battle lines are becoming clear on the essentials outlined above. So this is apparently where we are now. The UK Conservative party is still apparently split down the middle on many of the issues concerning separation from the EU. At least it appears so from what we read about divisions within the Cabinet; at times these appear distinctly...

...in the wake of damning evidence that the careful systems of governance built up within the NHS don’t protect us from profound organisational failure, the awkward outsider who asks annoying questions starts to look like a resource we can’t do without. This contribution has been commissioned for an editorial partnership between Participation Now and openDemocracy.net....