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The Z Files: Chi Onwurah
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Chi Onwurah

...history of engineering. The person I’m meeting today was inspired to continue this great tradition. Chi Onwurah is an MP, an electrical engineer and a lifelong Newcastle United fan. Her love of engineering started here in Newcastle’s Discovery Museum. Tell me what this ship means to you. Because to me it’s just a big ship, to you it’s a bit more than that isn’t...
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Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott
Health, Sports & Psychology

Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott

...family in Crumlin (a working-class district of Dublin), Lynott lived at the intersection of race and class in a predominantly white and conservative Ireland. While his upbringing instilled in him ‘an acute sense of national and gender identity’ (Smyth, 2005, p. 39), his skin colour and illegitimacy made him the target of racial and social prejudice. Lynott’s music...
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The reason for low wages
Money & Business

The reason for low wages

...history. It can be traced back to now-decades-old policies favouring businesses at the expense of established employee rights. Additionally, it highlights the general turn away from the need for a welfare state that was dominant in early post-Second World War era. For many, this reveals the broader ‘failures of the free market’ and the threat that that so-called...
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Sebastian Chuwa: environmentalist, conservationist and champion of Tanzanian nature
Nature & Environment

Sebastian Chuwa: environmentalist, conservationist and champion of Tanzanian nature

...family. Sebastian and his wife Elizabeth lived a few villages away, so we didn’t see them that often, but they attended family events when they could. One day, I was invited to his house to tea, but getting there was easier said than done. Kilimanjaro villages are long and thin, positioned on the ridges between the rivers that drain the huge volcano. Roads are also...
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What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...family responsibilities while caring for loved ones – often with remarkable strength and determination. This article shares their dreams for the future, from higher education and careers to starting families and owning homes, and highlights the support that can help them achieve their goals...Click here for the Punjabi audio version of this article. South Asian young...
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Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media

...family with whom they share information. People are generally far more likely to trust their friends and family with information than third parties, and therefore once information circulates in a social network it has the power to influence not only the targeted individual but everyone in their friend list, especially if the information is liked or shared. When we...
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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

...family in 1874. The house was designed in the Scottish Baronial style, a type of architecture associated with the Gothic Revival. The role of the ‘Big House’ in Irish history is explored in the Open University module A111, Discovering the arts and humanities. Many of the owners of such houses also maintained estates in England and in other parts of the British Empire....
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Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...history of immigration law - [(1) A poster from 1902 for an anti-immigration demonstration. (2) A black and white photo of a demonstration.] Figure 2 (1) An advertisement from 1902 for an anti-immigration demonstration. (2) A demonstration in the East End of London against the Alien Act 1905. As Figure 2 shows, immigration restrictions in the UK are not new. The Aliens...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs