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Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...Open University and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, plans to explore some of these questions. This two-year study will be working with Action for Children, a national voluntary organisation, to examine the relationships between male and female professionals and teenage boys in contact with welfare services. Underlying this research project is a concern...
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Crowdsourced annotation: what do you think?
History & The Arts

Crowdsourced annotation: what do you think?

...opening a separate browser window alongside the ‘raw’ Hestia texts and map references. Use the <> at the foot of the text pane to move between chapters. [Gyges wife] King of Lydia shows his wife to Gyges (Herodotus, Book 1, Ch.9), by William Etty (1787 - 1849) How can we be sure that these annotations are from a credible source? What are the...
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Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion
Money & Business

Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion

...open to all, which enhances economic as well as personal growth. Several factors affect employment choices of migrant workers but, for many of them, self-employment is often seen as a means to escape unemployment. In fact, the GEM UK data (GEM UK APS 2004 to 2015) reveals that entrepreneurial activity of the non-white ethnic population is higher, at 11.7%, than that of...
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Sounds of environmental change
Society, Politics & Law

Sounds of environmental change

...open to sounds generated from all around, and humans are more 'vulnerable' to sounds as a result. Particular sounds can evoke powerful memories of people and places too. In the past, geographers were mostly concerned with what places and environments looked like in maps and pictures. More recently, though, some geographers have turned their attention to senses such as...
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20 things you might not know about Belfast
History & The Arts

20 things you might not know about Belfast

...opening happened four years later. 11. Belfast has its fair share of famous alumni Seamus Heaney (Poet and Nobel Prize winner), David Trimble (First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002) and Mary MacAleese (8th President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011) are all alumni of Queen's University. 12. Sir Kenneth Branagh won an Oscar for his screenplay to "Belfast" The...
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Musicians, loops and the longest piece ever
History & The Arts

Musicians, loops and the longest piece ever

...Open University music degree are asked to experiment with the digital equivalent of Reich’s physical tape loops. Any sound whatsoever, once recorded, can be manipulated in this way to create new timbres and reveal hidden rhythms. Here, for instance, is the sound of a dog eating a carrot: [Dog eating a carrot] It is an easy task for a computer to make a ‘loop’ from a...
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The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...I am Dr Jitka Vseteckova, Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care with the Open University, and I am the creator of the Ageing Well Public Talk Series. The series is the outcome of collaborative work between academia, research and members of the public who have all contributed to the content as well as to the success of the series. The Series establishes Participatory Public Engagement as the main vehicle for ......
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‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library
History & The Arts

‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library

...opened the way to accessing better funding for the project, and The Times newspaper was particularly friendly to the library, carrying many advertisements and letters to spread the word. I tell the story of this library in an article forthcoming in the Journal of Medical History, and it provided the context for my approach to Endell Street Military Hospital. [Deeds not...
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