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Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...study the specific courses on Systems thinking and practice and Systems diagramming or, if you want to learn them in an environmental context, the courses on Understanding the environment: a systems approach and Understanding the environment: problems with the way we think. This course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T319 Environmental management...
Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?

...study of Islamic law since then. The “silver lining” of ISIS is that it is forcing Muslims to confront the consequences of archaic interpretations of aggressive jihad. Moving from Mecca to Medina The Prophet Muhammad was born and raised in Mecca, a town in western Arabia, where he proclaimed Islam in AD 610. In AD 622 he had to move with a small group of his early...
What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...study” and examples from a real city (Dublin), and offers “a number of suggestions for addressing trepidations about and ills arising from data privacy, protection and security issues.” The suggestions vary pretty widely… “…it advocates a multipronged approach that uses a suite of solutions, some of which are market driven, some more technical in...
EU Referendum - Sovereignty
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Sovereignty

...outside the Eurozone. This demand has not survived the negotiation process, but is likely to be used by the out-campaign as an example for the weakness of the newly found agreements. What this criticism is likely to overlook is that the EU can only ever legislate in those areas that it has the competence to do so. Explore more about the EU referendum... Study at The OU......
Brexit: On the vote in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: On the vote in Wales

...study of how people voted against their own material self interest, to increase their precarity, and to become even poorer than they already are, writes Daniel Evans...[A sign in Holyhead warns in Welsh and English of a sudden cliff edge] A dangerous cliff-edge? If nothing else, the Brexit vote, and its (increasingly visible) xenophobic underpinnings should finally put...
Sleep: A doctor's advice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sleep: A doctor's advice

...study, when you are monitored overnight to assess your breathing, heart rate and sometimes your brainwave patterns to identify the possible cause of your sleep disorder. It's all too easy for us to think about sleep as something that just happens, but the benefits of a really good night's sleep are worth a little time and effort. Almost everyone can benefit from this...
What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...studying and reading, all the social fieldwork, all the location visiting, all the garnering of what is or what has been, must be reimagined before it can find a place in the text. It must rise into the orbit of the anarchic, gift-conjuring, unknowing part of the novelist’s mind before it can acquire its own truth for the work in question. Graham Greene, when asked by...
Working mothers in Scotland's railways
Society, Politics & Law

Working mothers in Scotland's railways

...studying for a full-time degree, and later became a full-time Health and Safety Executive. Reflecting over the years my Mum can’t believe the changes that have come about for working mothers. My Mum worked constant backshifts for around eight years, to enable my Dad to gain his degree, which also meant she was around to look after us through the day. Sometimes if my Dad...