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Living with visual Impairment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with visual Impairment

...everyday life? How can you offer assistance without taking control? The video tracks on this album simulate what the world looks like to people with a range of visual impairments, and show good practice when acting as a sighted guide. The audio tracks offer personal perspectives from two people living with severe visual impairment. This material forms part of The Open...
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Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?

...everyday essential items that were to be classified at the 0% rate. This included food and children’s clothing. The negotiation was final and, crucially, did not include sanitary products. Sanitary products were charged at the standard rate in the UK until the 2000 budget at which point the VAT rate on sanitary products was reduced to 5%. The essential legal instrument...
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Are selfies a terrible thing?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are selfies a terrible thing?

...everyday, routine activity. Given these social pressures on women it’s easy to assume that filtered selfies or selfie editing is just about “fixing” what women don’t like about the way they look. #ad Hey Guys! LuMee cases are featured today as Amazon’s Prime Deal of the Day. Best deal ever! #PrimeDay #LuMee amzn.to/29kDDyJ A post shared by Kim Kardashian West...
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Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...everyday life in Britain, exploring changes in my own life and the environment I was living in, curious to learn from others about their lives and choices. The social divisions of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality, and the challenges of changing them when culture creates and reproduces inequalities and hierarchies, have occupied most of my research time in the...
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Article 5 mins
Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey

...everyday problems. Could this be you? Learning by doing Design education at the OU, like most design schools worldwide, is hands-on and project-based. Students have the opportunity to engage in a wide range of projects, solidifying the notion that design isn’t just theory. Designers tackle real-world problems, improving lives – that’s the allure of design education....
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Video 5 mins
The Mill on the Floss
History & The Arts

The Mill on the Floss

...English fictions most powerful female protagonists. The life of Eliot herself shaped the book but another powerful influence on Eliot’s work was of the German writer Goethe. Eliot’s only surviving hand-written manuscript resides in the British Library. It reveals a strikingly neat set of volumes with little corrections except from subtle indications in the author’s...
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Article 5 mins
A linguistic toolkit for health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

A linguistic toolkit for health and social care

...English conversations from a wide variety of contexts – chats between family and friends, informal workplace exchanges, formal meetings, university settings – to understand all the different ways people give and respond to advice. They found over 1,200 instances of advice-giving, which were expressed in a range of ways from very strong and direct (Don’t do that...
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Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs
History & The Arts

Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs

...English nonsense literature – including Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. But Lear also introduced a unique visual style to his books, pioneering a new kind of poetry that married brilliant wordplay with astonishing artwork. Lear’s poems represent a wonderfully childish, creative antidote to the relentless, and dehumanising, march of Victorian “progress” -...
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