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A ‘disorder’ or just me? Life with bipolar
Health, Sports & Psychology

A ‘disorder’ or just me? Life with bipolar

...Open University’s Health and Wellbeing qualifications. Not everyone with bipolar believe they have an illness, instead accepting their experiences as an integral aspect of themselves, however troublesome this might be. What is it like to live with bipolar? ‘Its like having icing sugar flowing through my blood vessels when I’m manic, when I’m depressed it’s like...
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Scotland’s ‘not proven’ verdict helps juries communicate their belief of guilt when lack of evidence fails to convict
Society, Politics & Law

Scotland’s ‘not proven’ verdict helps juries communicate their belief of guilt when lack of evidence fails to convict

...Open University's Law courses. Twenty-six years ago, 19-year-old Scots drama student Amanda Duffy was murdered after a night out with friends. In a landmark trial in 1992, there was only one suspect in the case, Francis Auld. Despite forensic evidence that could link Auld to Amanda’s death, he received a “not proven” verdict, which meant the jury deemed there was...
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Your house is full of space dust – it reveals the solar system's story
Science, Maths & Technology

Your house is full of space dust – it reveals the solar system's story

...opens up some pods below the wing containing “sticky pads”, which collect pieces of space dust. Back on Earth NASA use an exceptionally clean laboratory to pick the space dust from the collectors for researchers, like myself, to study. My research is based around these dust particles because they offer our best opportunity to sample comets. The ER2 is a much cheaper...
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Delivering tutorials for dyslexic students
Education & Development

Delivering tutorials for dyslexic students

...open-ended activities. The pattern: ‘guided discovery of language structures- controlled practice – freer practice’ works well and provides a structure that dyslexic students can follow well. Mode of delivery Group work: Ask students to work in groups before eliciting their answers. Working in a small group is reassuring for students with dyslexia who may dislike...
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The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer
Money & Business

The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer

...openness of the supplier are some of the variables that impact on the findings (or lack of). And of course having conducted an audit and found many noncompliance’s, manifests the problem of how serious the issues are and how to manage the situation going forward. This of course has implications for reputational risk (caused by continued trading) and how to implement a...
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Making sense of sudden mass deaths
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of sudden mass deaths

...and references Collective loss and Community Resilience After September 11 by Anne Eyre in Making Sense of Death, Dying and Bereavement: An Anthology Edited by Sarah Earle, Caroline Bartholomew and Carol Komaromy, published by Sage & The Open University The grief industry: how much does crisis counselling help or hurt? by Jerome Groopman in The New Yorker 26 January, 2004...
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Climate Change, Coastal Erosion and Flooding: The Thames Gateway and London
Society, Politics & Law

Climate Change, Coastal Erosion and Flooding: The Thames Gateway and London

...Open University’s third level module on international environmental policy (DU311: Earth in Crisis). Over a few days we met with various people with a professional or personal interest in the relationship between climate change, flooding and coastal erosion. They included professionals working for the Environment Agency, Swale Borough Council and the Royal Society for...
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The navigation apps that help the visually impaired
Society, Politics & Law

The navigation apps that help the visually impaired

...open one. [Visually impaired person using mobile phone] A growing number of specialist navigation apps are available for the visually impaired Cautious optimism Our findings on how smart technologies might help visually impaired people navigate the city reflect our broader impressions of the emergence of the smart city, those being a sense of cautious optimism. Cautious...
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