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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste

...public awareness and failure to fully treat regional artists as partners. Additionally, these programs run the risk of turning such art into an exclusively “regional” phenomenon. Public funding, however, can be an effective tool for increasing the influence, sustainability and market for a wide range of “regional” art nationally and internationally. Tracy Callinan...
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Sport and exercise psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sport and exercise psychology

...health and what does it really take to stick to a programme of regular physical activity? This material forms part of The Open University module E233 Sport and exercise psychology: a case study approach... Adherence: Getting people active and sticking to it This video examines the challenges of adhering to an exercise programme, focussing on the experiences of clients and...
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Green Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

Green Brexit?

...public attitudes to food, so that farmers who do the right thing have people they can sell to. I am working with the Clean Air in London campaign to draft a Clean Air Bill to Parliament that includes the key principles, like future generations, that are currently in EU law. The central idea of the Bill is to make healthy air a human right and this is to be backed up by a...
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The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond
Languages

The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond

...public, such as the ZOE Health Study in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Data for Ukraine project. Data for Ukraine analyses Twitter data in order to detect a variety of developing events in Ukraine: civilian resistance; displacement of population groups; human rights abuses; and humanitarian needs (Machine Learning for Peace, 2022a). For this purpose, over 600...
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How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?

...health. Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, co-founders of the website Retraction Watch, which detects academic papers withdrawn due to questionable findings, have also reported a claim that jet plane vapour trails contain toxic materials, not just ice crystals. Other questionable studies include those that linked vaccines to autism, a connection that has long been debunked,...
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Raising awareness and support for men
Health, Sports & Psychology

Raising awareness and support for men

...health and well-being and also men’s positive contribution to society. In 2024, the theme for International Men’s Day is ‘Positive Male Role Models’. The 6 Pillars of International Men’s Day are: To promote positive male role models: this is not just about focusing on the role models that might be familiar to us such as movie stars, Olympic athletes and...
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Why worldviews?
History & The Arts

Why worldviews?

...public demonstration and the differing reasons people may have for attending...If you are an educator or working in the public sector, chances are sooner or later you will come across ‘worldviews’. The term has increasing currency as a means of encompassing the range and complexity (and often very personal nature) of ways of thinking about and being in the world. One...
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Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...public sector in Scotland has become more marked since the 1980s. Alongside these shifts, UK government cuts in public service provision, service withdrawal, assorted forms of privatisation and a range of other policy strategies falling under the general umbrella of ‘austerity’ have together contributed to a significant change in the conditions of employment faced by...
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