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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

...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 involving staff...
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Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills
Education & Development

Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills

...Open University’s Human Research Ethics Committee website for help.) Have you made diary notes of when you need to start applying for approval? Developing as a researcher What others said: As a teacher I am used to organising how students work and that is what I expected. However … the [EdD] approach was tending to be a reaction [from my supervisors] to what I wrote...
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Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?
Languages

Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?

...Open University's Language courses and qualifications. What is language? Language is a method of communication, which contains a structured system consisting of a set of sounds, written symbols and signs. It describes how we share norms, values, meaning, culture and perspectives of the world with others who understand the same language system. All languages are fluid,...
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Panic buying and how to stop it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic buying and how to stop it

...Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications Panic buying is an emerging issue during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 across the world. The term panic buying implies fear, namely the fear, based on the anticipation that important goods (food, water, toilet rolls) will run out. In many ways, this is a fear about losing control over our lives, and framed in these...
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Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...opened up neurology to the everyday world. Despite Sacks’s popularity now, he had a slow start, with his first book Migrainenot raising much interest either with his medical colleagues or the reading public. Not least, perhaps, because compared to his later works, it struggled to throw off some of the technical writing habits of academic medicine. It wasn’t until his...
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What is aquaponics - and how can fish poo help feed the world?
Nature & Environment

What is aquaponics - and how can fish poo help feed the world?

...open source monitoring and control systems for aquaponics. These aggregate data via the cloud to create virtual communities of growers whose shared experience makes it easier for everyone. But there’s still lots more to find out. We’re both part of an EU Aquaponics Hub that will try to better understand how fish and veg can work together, and will facilitate...
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Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Professor Andy Watson interview Key RH = Roger Harrabin, Interviewer AW = Professor Andy Watson, Royal Society Research Professor, Exeter University Participant RH This is Andy Watson. Andy, tell me, you’ve seen Nic Lewis, what’s nice about it? I’m thinking in terms of the previous episodes with climate sceptics,...
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How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?
Science, Maths & Technology

How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?

...opened. Eight polling companies published “final” estimates of referendum voting intention based on interviewing that concluded no more than four days before polling day. Although two companies did anticipate that Leave would win, and one reckoned the outcome would be a draw, the remaining five companies all put Remain ahead. No company even managed to estimate...
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