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Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...publication in the 21st century.) But you may as well be a genius for the next 30 days, at least. Harness your obsessions. We are all hung up on something – the terrible ex, the neighbours from hell, mothers, spiders, fitting rooms, flying or being alone. Anything you like. Some of the best stories come from the deepest and darkest obsessions (just ask Alfred...
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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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Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list
Money & Business

Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list

...health risk for consumers.” Read in full at The Grocer: Chlorinated chicken explained: why do the Americans treat their poultry with chlorine? What do the public think? A 2012 piece in the journal Food Control exploring how consumers in the UK reacted to various approaches to reducing the presnce of Campylobacter in food discovered a lack of support for chlorine...
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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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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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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...health problems. [On Sept. 8, 2015, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, USA] The first and most significant radical alternative to prison is to introduce social policies that are directed at meeting human need and addressing the harms of social and economic inequalities. This means shifting away from a punishment-orientated response towards one grounded in helping and...
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COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...health. The self-portrait is surrounded by an invisible energy and sense of threat, that cannot be seen but are nevertheless conveyed. Transcript This beautiful, evocative video film, created by a group of Syrian refugees living in Malaysia, is framed around Mwaffaq’s poem to Mother Earth. Bringing together reflections on multiple overlapping crisis around inequality,...
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What pressures are young men feeling?
Education & Development

What pressures are young men feeling?

...health and wellbeing, as well as their relationships with each other, and with women and children. Alongside online surveys conducted for this international study, we convened focus groups with men between the ages of 18 and 30 in London and the north of England, representing diverse backgrounds in terms of ethnicity, religion and class. The men we spoke to were keenly...
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