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Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation

...further reading These three women poets are just a few of the many contemporary Irish women publishing and receiving acclaim for their work. There is more information about contemporary Irish women’s poetry in the following resources. Poetry Ireland The Irish Poetry Reading Archive Salmon Poetry The Gallery Press Dedalus Press Arlen House Poet Head by Chris Murray...
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Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity
Society, Politics & Law

Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity

...resources https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/refugees-migrants-and-asylum?utm_source=google&utm_medium=grant&utm_campaign=AWA_REFU_asylum-seekers&utm_content=famous%20refugees https://lithub.com/15-works-of-contemporary-literature-by-and-about-refugees/
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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...resources for resilience in traditional environmental and cultural knowledges. Ceremonies contribute significantly here because they express and encourage celebration of and gratitude to the larger-than-human community. In turn, this strengthens efforts to protect, preserve and promote healthy ecologies and relations. The dramatic and colourful totem Latamat portrays and...
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Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance

...resources and support. England’s success hasn’t come easy: it’s the product of years of grit, resilience and bold investment. If women’s rugby is to grow globally, England’s blueprint may be a powerful place to start.[The Conversation] And what better way to start than as Women’s Rugby World Cup Champions in 2025! This article is republished from The...
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Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?
Science, Maths & Technology

Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?

...resources into creating the world’s largest, widest, and (bar the much smaller Concorde) most technically advanced airliner, and doing so in a very complex market. Boeing’s competitors were also developing slightly smaller wide-body aircraft – defined as having two aisles or a cabin wider than 200 inches – that launched within two years of the 747’s 1969 debut....
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Earth Day on OpenLearn
Nature & Environment

Earth Day on OpenLearn

...resources below... Change your diet One of the best ways to help the environment is to reduce your intake of meat and dairy products. A person eating a 75g beef burger once a day, over the course of a year, will contribute 2,820kg of greenhouse gas emissions from these burgers alone. To put that into perspective, that is the equivalent of taking 8 return flights to Malaga...
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Can we be categorised by our DNA?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can we be categorised by our DNA?

...Resource (2021) The 1000 Genomes Project. Available at: https://www.internationalgenome.org/ (Accessed: 25 April 2022). Leslie, S., Winney, B., Hellenthal, G. et al. (2015) ‘The fine-scale genetic structure of the British population’, Nature 519, pp. 309–314. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14230 Randall, (2010) ‘Colour Survey results’ xkcd The blag...
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Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing

...resource that can sustain us through difficult times as well as bringing us happiness in our daily lives. References Allan, G. (2011) ‘Commentary: friendships and emotions.’ Sociological Research Online 16, 1, 15. www.socresonline.org.uk/16/1/15.html. Cacioppo, J., and Cacioppo, S. (2014) ‘Social Relationships and Health: The Toxic Effects of Perceived Social...
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