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Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh
OpenLearn Ireland

Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh

...open ledges, like the top of the stack here, and they like to gather in large groups to defend their eggs and young. And then we’ve got puffins. Puffins are burrowing birds and nest down below on the grassy bank here, where they can burrow into the earth. DARRYL GRIMASON: See the lovely wee orange legs on them. ALISON MCFAUL: Lots of them down there. There’s one or...
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Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...open to challenge. One way to sound less accusatory, and avoid defensiveness and not resolving the issue, is to use ‘I’, rather than ‘you’, statements. For example, ‘I feel that the work is not being completed on time’, sounds less blaming than ‘you never get work completed on time’. Try to remain objective: it is a person with a problem, not a problem...
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Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...Open University’s Research Code of Practice offers guidance on Authorship, Acknowledgement and Attribution. It defines authorship as being directly involved in the creation of a work (Open University, Research Code of Practice, p. 18) by: Being solely responsible for, or making a significant contribution to, the conception/design of the project, or the collection,...
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Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...open than they are with long form shows. World wildlife has decline dramatically: How well has natural history television reflected this? I think it’s quite shocking to actually hear the statistic that the actual quantity of wildlife on the planet has dropped by 50% since the 1970s. I mean that’s actually quite staggering and I don’t think you would know from...
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What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...Open University. With me is Jonny Geller who’s Chief Executive of the literary agents Curtis Brown. We’ll be discussing the relationship between creativity and commerce and how to identify it and promote writing talent in today’s rapidly changing world. Could you explain a little bit about your role and the various elements involved in the creation of a work of...
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The UK votes out: Instant reaction
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out: Instant reaction

...course, much remains to be done in the period ahead. This is only a first step. But it will lead to many other debates. It is those who do not fear change to whom the future belongs. Simon Usherwood, senior lecturer in politics, University of Surrey The UK is far from alone in harbouring people who want to change the direction and nature of the EU. Populists across the...
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From the 'Red Clyde' to the 'Blue Clyde'?
Society, Politics & Law

From the 'Red Clyde' to the 'Blue Clyde'?

...course – or at least at the surface level they seem to be very different. The period 2014-2019 sees many hundred years anniversaries coming about – many relating to the First World War or to particular events associated with it and its immediate aftermath. The period around WW1 and immediately after was one of far reaching and rapid social, economic and political...
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Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...Open video hosting platforms on the Internet let anyone in the world “broadcast” to anyone else in the world. Can the AVSM “level the playing field” in the other direction, by making traditional broadcasters give Chewbacca-Mask Mom instant access to millions of viewers, as video hosting platforms have done? Can they give any viewer – like Mom-Mask Chewbacca - an...
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