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The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer

...working in grain and cereals. He’s broken almost every stereotype going. He was born in the same part of Jamaica as my mother and has encountered poverty, racism and some of the educational difficulties I have. I want to find out how he has coped with and overcome these challenges, and how he became a legend in the brewing industry. So this place is just full of...
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Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...work and we’re not there yet, it’s this rich combination of outcomes and engagement that seems to have been the key to the 91 primary schools who’ve signed up so far (we need 100 – all are welcome!) I’ve spent many early mornings listening to head teachers’ concerns about their young people’s disaffected attitudes towards writing. The way in which they...
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Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...working here in Oxford with Niko Tinbergen as a comparative ethologist. I was working on animal behaviour, in particular behaviour of a small fish called the ten-spined stickleback, and I did my doctorate on this fish. The essence of comparative ethology was that it was a comparatively new movement at the time and it was in opposition to animal psychology. I say...
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Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
Science, Maths & Technology

Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...working with mammalian embryos for over 40 years, with some work in my lab specifically focusing on various methods of cloning cattle and other livestock species. In fact, one of the coauthors of the paper announcing Dolly worked in our laboratory for three years prior to going to Scotland to help create the famous clone. Dolly was an important milestone, inspiring...
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The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...work of the aid effort. Some of the grandest assistance schemes produced the most meagre results. Everywhere you look are prefabricated huts left over from the aid effort. They have turned the town and the valley blue, an unfamiliar colour in an area where people normally build in stone and wood. A decade after the distribution of temporary shelters, these glorified tin...
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Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...working on, what are the strengths, what are the weaknesses, what are our threats, you know, from the opposition, from how we could go wrong and then have a very clear plan of, you know, what we’re going to achieve when we get to the race or when we get to the Olympics. And I think writing it down is really important because then you know exactly what it is you’ve...
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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn
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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn

...working basis. Interactive activities Some of our interactive activities might fail aspects of WCAG criteria. We are in the process of auditing and rebuilding these materials, and the following actions are in progress: We will rebuild interactive activities, including those created by third-party suppliers, by December 2026. Interactive activities will be individually...
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Time management and study
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Time management and study

...work out exactly how you can fit studying around other commitments. Using a planner helps you schedule each event, appointment and task so you don't run out of time. You can use it to set deadlines to help you stay on track and plan in extra time for yourself and spending time with your loved ones. For further, extensive advice, The Open University provides plenty of...
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