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Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...economic tides and social values, but the individual, workplace, family or locality is easier to apprehend and to alter. A political aspect of open methodologies is that they approach methods not in terms of grand narratives, but as practices through which worlds are enacted. This is a reaction to, and qualified rejection of, that research which associates particular...
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British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds
Society, Politics & Law

British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds

...economic approach known as “stated preference discrete choice experiments” to measure how the British public value different components of a Brexit deal. This is more rigorous than traditional polling, and involved interviews with 917 people, drawn from those who participated in the British Social Attitudes survey. We asked people to make choices, and trade-offs,...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: How to Manage a Boardroom
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: How to Manage a Boardroom

...economic and political problems linked to the rise of corporate power. The focus of boardrooms on maximizing their shareholder’s profit has led to lost jobs, a decline in ethics, corporate bodies advocating for weakened regulation and the prioritization of short term gains over long term innovation and sustainability. For further reading, see Steven Pearlstein's “How...
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Recycling: Putting consumers to work
Society, Politics & Law

Recycling: Putting consumers to work

...economic processes and the work they do interacts with other types of work conducted in the public, private, and voluntary sectors. In the case of waste management, placing all waste into a black bag (e.g. not sorting it for recycling) implicates the consumer in one chain of processes, whereas separating the waste for recycling involves the consumer in a very different...
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Pathways To Success in Higher Education
Education & Development

Pathways To Success in Higher Education

...economic future. Studying the Science pathway will enhance your understanding of the world, and contribute to your intellectual and personal development. Try our Science 'tasters' here. Interested? Head over to the Science Pathway. How do I Know Which Colour Pathway to Follow? [bluearrowpathways] The blue routes are for those who have little experience of previous study....
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What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about
Health, Sports & Psychology

What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about

...for economic and other systemic disruption in the future. During the creation of this hub, we have had interest from leaders in industry keen to know what we are doing; therefore, the hub is also a place for initiating conversations and potential future collaborations and partnerships. To contact our team of psychologists, please email us at FeedbackAPH@open.ac.uk...
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A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...economic change in both Ireland and the United States, Irish Catholic migrants to America began to outnumber their Protestant counterparts by the early 1830s...Social and economic changes in both Ireland and the United States can be used to explain shifting patterns of Irish emigration in the nineteenth century. By the early 1830s, Irish Catholic migrants to America began...
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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?

...economic inequalities in both countries? The differences in social, educational, health and economic outcomes and experiences vary a great deal in the US and England and Wales based on race. However, they are also based on the intersection of multiple identities and social characterisations (class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, ability/disability)...
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