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COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...out of the 67 million UK residents have already been infected with COVID-19, with survivors now having immunity. This would allow them to return to work. Their results are in stark contrast to the estimate by UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), that 0.24% of people or about 136,000 were infected at any given time between late April and early May. If we look...
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Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist
Society, Politics & Law

Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist

...out about The Open University's Social Sciences courses Setting the scene In the summer of 2022, talk of strikes taking place or being threatened across a number of airlines using UK airports was a staple feature in the media. Strikes by airline workers are not in 2022 ‘news’ as such. We have become used to hearing of industrial action in the sector, not least...
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Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
Society, Politics & Law

Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955

...out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Background On Tuesday 25 October 1955, members of the General Iron Fitters Association at Rolls-Royce in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, took unofficial strike action. By Thursday 27 October, workers in various unions at other Rolls-Royce plants in the west of Scotland, at East Kilbride and Hillington, had...
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Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
History & The Arts

Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany

...out a little longer – and that lack of staying power was attributed to civilians. Soon, the myth spread that Germany had not really been defeated at the front. Orderly columns of German soldiers marching home after the Armistice only served to confirm this impression – after all, the war had not been fought on German soil, no news of major defeats had ever reached the...
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Article 15 mins
The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...out in the famous toy shop Hamleys, in London (Cole & Stewart, 2014). The store is populated with hundreds of toys that represent other animals, but their character changes radically according to the target age group. Toys on the ground floor are aimed at infants, and then at progressively older children on each higher floor, ending with toys designed for tweens or early...
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Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...out of investing in relationships, acknowledging the roles and consents of everyone involved in research in dissemination and offering advice about the value of working iteratively with the human research ethics committee to support equity-based design and conduct. Alison Buckler illustrates her responses through examples from her experiences within the Ibali project,...
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Article 30 mins
Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills
Education & Development

Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills

...out we are going, OK I need to find some more to shave off before I add anymore’. That is my approach at the moment. [EdD student, Year 3] You may want to re-structure your thesis once you start putting all the chapters together towards the end of the third year. I moved one chapter three times before settling. You are telling a story and it is important that the work...
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Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
History & The Arts

Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation

...out as an entertainer, his knowledge and deep appreciation for the lives of everyday Japanese “folk” have sometimes led him to be compared with the pioneering Japanese folklorist Yanagita Kunio. Like Mizuki, Yanagita also avoided creating chauvinistic tropes that could stereotype Japan as a homogeneous culture and nation, and instead described practices and beliefs...
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