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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...open competition. The role of social critics Nevertheless, much as Huskisson and Baines celebrated the advance of manufactures, perceptions were also being shaped by social critics of the new industrial era. Against Baines’s book one might set Peter Gaskell’s The Manufacturing Population of England (1833), an indictment of a factory-based existence. There were...
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Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities

...Open University and The Parks Trust Milton Keynes’ collaboration, we have been focussing on how greenspaces are crucial resources to help us into ageing well. It is well noted that greenspaces enhance the health of those who engage with them. Benefits of Greenspaces Today, the benefits of interacting with nature for our health are well-known, from the physical;...
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Exploring the icy moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the icy moons

...Open University, what does astrobiology mean to you? There’s a tendency to see astrobiology as ‘the search for life’. But that's not how I see it. ‘Searching for life’ implies that astrobiology’s goal is finding life. And if we don't find it, then we've failed. But for me, the goal is to try to understand life in its cosmic context; to understand how common or...
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Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...open policies for remote working, particularly around management, scheduling and technology (beyond how to protect and secure devices!)? Compensation Are employees’ efforts, and additional costs, adequately rewarded? Are there "perks" to attract and retain employees, such as working mothers or single parents? Has consideration been taken of possible financial hardships?...
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Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...Open University to talk about this work. Transcript In the presentation, I specifically focused on the imperative to develop the stamina and capacities that could prepare us to address the affective and relational dimensions of decolonising work in higher education. This affective work entails acknowledging, analysing, and accepting responsibility for processing the often...
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...Open Justice Centre and OU Law School students, with law school students across eight universities, collaborated and participated on a project that explored race and policing in the US and the UK. The race and policing project focus was, in part, to explore, analyse, and explain the ways race and racism intersect in public institutions and society more broadly. It has...
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African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation
History & The Arts

African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation

...Open University's Religious Studies qualifications. The master's tool will never dismantle the master's house (A. Lorde) To understand the stigmatisation, misrepresentation and demonisation of African Caribbean religions, it is pivotal to develop a cultural consciousness which could look critically at the narrative constructed by the West during centuries of colonisation,...
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Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...Open University, suggests that primary sources contain both intentional and unintentional evidence. In our example there is the deliberate message conveyed by the photograph – the pose, demeanour and expression of the women. Then there is the unintended information it conveys about the contemporary interest in women workers. We are told this is one of forty-nine studio...
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