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What is OpenLearn Scotland?
Society, Politics & Law

What is OpenLearn Scotland?

...care and social sciences. The collection of FREE courses, academic insights via articles, interactive videos and audio, and broadcast material as a whole demonstrates The Open University's commitment to delivering a curriculum that is appropriate for the differing requirements of each of the countries within the United Kingdom. These open educational resources have been...
Archaeology: the science of investigation
Science, Maths & Technology

Archaeology: the science of investigation

...careful handling is required when cleaning artefacts. X-raying objects The importance of modern technology in the preservation of an artefact from an Iron Age burial at Sutton Hoo. The Portable Antiquities Scheme The success of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, which allows the mapping of coin finds by metal detector users and helps to build a more accurate picture of...
Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship

...care and justice represent a form of ‘citizenship’ as they successfully administer support to the community where the state is inadequate. Sexual Citizens and Orientalism Dr Leticia Sabsay’s research focuses on ‘sexual citizenship’ and how the consequences of its emergence and expansion have forced Western societies to confront their own assumptions about...
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...care work, cleaning, nursing, to be re-labelled as ‘essential’ during the pandemic. You will explore the interaction of theoretical lenses and the practical work of artists, through the intersectional feminist exhibition ‘This Is Essential Work’ which explores different aspects of domestic care work during the pandemic. Essential for what? ‘‘The conditions...
Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life
Science, Maths & Technology

Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life

...care, wearable electronics provide an opportunity for revolutionary advances. Wearable electronic shirts capable of powering automated injection devices could make life easier for patients who need regular injections of insulin or other drugs. A shirt incorporating a heart rate monitor could sense changes in heart rhythm in elderly or cardiac-impaired patients – and...
How can you exercise safely in the heat?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can you exercise safely in the heat?

...careful, say Hannah Moir and Chris Howe...[A person runs under the hot sun] [In the week commencing June 19th, m]ost of Britain experienced a heatwave, with temperatures reaching beyond 32℃. The public health watchdog for England issued an amber health warning, advising people to take care in the hotter weather. But what does it mean for runners? Is it ever too hot to...
How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...careful human reading of a text, can allow us to test hypotheses... Frankenstein’s most frequent words list is significant also for what does not appear in it. If we compare Frankenstein with another famous 1818 novel, Jane Austen’s Persuasion, we can observe that the latter’s wordlist is dominated by the names and titles of the characters, such as the protagonist...
Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making
Society, Politics & Law

Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making

...careful construction, Obama offered a subtle form of resistance to the aggressive language of division deployed by the likes of Donald Trump. This too means her speech may well be remembered long after the Trump era is over. Great speeches don’t just touch the human spirit in the moment, but say something about the times in which their speakers and listeners live. This...