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Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...course of my research project do not exist on their own, but with accompanying narrations that emerged from image elicitation interviews. My analysis holds that the most salient aspect of an image is what its maker intended to communicate: the participants tell me what is in the picture and we discuss its meaning from there. In order to make these images accessible to...
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Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned
Society, Politics & Law

Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned

...courses and qualifications. On 25 May 2022, OU Economics hosted a seminar with Dr Ayobami Ilori, Lecturer and Staff Tutor at The Open University and Dr Moustafa Chatzouz, a macroeconomist, who leads the data science and fiscal policy modelling branch at HM Treasury. Trailer Watch the trailer below for the seminar, Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates...
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How have family budgets changed in sixty years?
Money & Business

How have family budgets changed in sixty years?

...course, the country has changed a great deal since 1957, and our spending habits with it. These days, ONS publishes the Family Spending results on an internationally-comparable basis – the Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose system, or ‘COICOP’ to its friends. Back then, though, we used a different system of spending categories, the so-called Family...
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The West of Ireland: Dimensions of distinctiveness
Scotland Colleges

The West of Ireland: Dimensions of distinctiveness

...place. Explore the articles in this collection . Acknowledgements This material draws from an Open University course based on the work of Pat Jess. Jess, P. (1985) ‘Unit 17 Local Change in the West of Ireland’, in The Open University (1985) D205 Changing Britain, Changing World: geographical perspectives, Broadcast Handbook, Milton Keynes, The Open University Press....
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Invasion of the killer pumpkins
Money & Business

Invasion of the killer pumpkins

...Furthermore, the fact that Halloween (or Easter, or Christmas) comes but once a year, means customers are prepared to pay more for products in fancy dress than they would for the basic item – thus creating more profit margin. Of course such potential rewards carry risk. Nobody wants jelly rodents in the warehouse in the first week of November. More on a Halloween theme...
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Assisted dying or non-assisted living?
Society, Politics & Law

Assisted dying or non-assisted living?

...course we did want to go ahead. The insertion of the pacemaker was a medical success but a personal tragedy for Dad. He endured two more years of pain, confusion, immobility, indignity and misery, until he contracted complex dysphagia and stopped trying to eat or drink. In the meantime, Mum’s health suffered because of the physical and emotional strain; she was...
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How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?
Science, Maths & Technology

How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?

...of magnitude, because say, resources are short, or it really takes 1000 years to cover 10 light-years. This article is adapted from The Open University course Planetary Science and the Search For Life Clarification: In the process of bringing this item from book to web, a rogue digit '1' appeared prior to the commas in some numbers. This odd maths has now been corrected....
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Speak in colours!
Languages

Speak in colours!

...course, differences in each country and these idiosyncratic descriptions are fun to explore. The following phrases are illustrative of expressions in French that use colour. I have chosen to leave out expressions that are similar or the same in English and focus on ones that you might find tricky. A literal translation will not always help you work out the meaning....
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