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Why mothers post about their children on social media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mothers post about their children on social media

...family photos. It’s also mothers who are largely the focus of disapproval and judgement for their sharenting. Those irritated by sharenting describe posts as “dull”, “repetitive” and “just plain annoying”. Some find it irritating enough to set up social media groups such as STFU Parents, formed around the idea that they are being “driven crazy” by baby...
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...family factors (such as a close bond to at least one person), through to those that are community wide (such as good a school experience and extended network of support)...Supporting children and young people's wellbeing: 4 Resilience and wellbeing - What, then, are the implications for children and young people’s everyday lives, and how can practices and practitioners...
Week 6 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 6 Civilisations: The debate

...Histories, a brand new art history course I contributed to, editing and co-authoring a unit on British India. In this episode David Olusoga looks at what he refers to as the first age of globalisation, tracing key moments of the Europe’s encounter with Africa, Central America and Asia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. This episode traces a shift from the...
Island Arc Magmatism: Santorini
Science, Maths & Technology

Island Arc Magmatism: Santorini

...history? This eruption left a geological caldera surrounded by huge amounts of volcanic ash. In this album, Open University geologists Richard Thorpe and Steve Blake take us on a geological tour of the island. They piece together the likely sequence of events of the eruption which destroyed an ancient civilisation. This material forms part of the course: S339...
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...histories... Textiles in Ghana A short introduction to this album. Ghana: Introduction to Kente weaving A short history of the tradition of the Kente weavers in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Nana Asante Fremprong, a local businessman and master weaver, describes the method and skills involved in the process and how it's been updated without the loss of traditional values...
Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...family and friends who worked there, and when the dispute started the people of Dundee felt they had to be involved. We had a template if you like, from the miners’ strike ten years previous, where people from different political groups and none, all came together as part of the miner’s support group. “It really was an act of class solidarity. The Timex workforce,...
To restore or not to restore?
History & The Arts

To restore or not to restore?

...history; for their story. When they were first constructed, we can imagine them shiny and new. Then over the centuries, they take some knocks, get put to different uses, and eventually end up bearing the patina of age as we see them today. If we intervene now, to stop them decaying, we stop their story; we bring their history to a close. They cease to age, as we repair...
How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?

...family planning is being used and shared, reports Christabel Ligami...An innovative mobile technology is helping countries in Sub-Sahara Africa access vital data on family planning and reproductive health every six months. Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020), which uses the mobile technology, provides information useful for reporting, planning,...