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Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...skills have played their part – and some unconscious processes. In my PhD, investigating 'technological innovation in car production', (the introduction of robots) in the mid-1980s, in Britain and Brazil, there was a clear desire to connect with my father’s mechanical knowledge and attraction to motor vehicles. My switch to studying household technologies coincided...
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Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.

...study we conducted in the Journal of LGBT Youth, which has documented and evaluated a workshop conducted in New Zealand. In summary, 237 secondary school students in Years 9 and 10 (average age 13.7 years) attended 10 gender diversity workshops run by RainbowYOUTH in Auckland. These workshops were short – lasting around one hour – and followed an earlier workshop on...
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Gender, IT and economic growth
Society, Politics & Law

Gender, IT and economic growth

...skilled sector of Information Technology. This sector is seen as crucial for powering future economic growth but it is one area where this gender discrepancy is particularly stark. Women only constitute 11% of IT specialists in the IT industry in the UK. Once in work, women also leave the industry in larger numbers than men. Yet in India, the IT sector seems to be more...
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EdTech Evidence: What works and why
Education & Development

EdTech Evidence: What works and why

...skills should be prioritised. Despite their differing priorities, both perspectives recognise that a balanced education system incorporating both what is easy to measure as well as life outcomes is key to fostering well-rounded, capable individuals. To preserve the richness of learning educators need to critically engage with several existing frameworks to address their...
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Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance
Education & Development

Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance

...skills of all children in an engaging manner. More recent government reports have raised children’s mental health needs both in Future in mind: Promoting, protecting and improving our children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing (Department of Health, 2015) and the 2018 Government Green Paper on mental health: Failing a generation. Equally, the 2020 primary...
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What's your personality profile?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's your personality profile?

...Our Time - on the COOT survey page. Find out more Study children... The Open University offers a number of courses that allow you to study childhood: Understanding Children; Childhood and Child Development among them. ... study people Starting With Psychology, Understanding Health and Discovering Psychology are just a few of the courses for study with The Open University....
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Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?
History & The Arts

Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?

...Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Sign of the Four (1890) initially received limited attention and unenthusiastic reviews, in part owing to their aloof and overly specialised hero. In these novels, Holmes euthanises an elderly terrier to test a hypothesis; elsewhere, Watson describes him as “a calculating machine” with something “positively inhuman” about him. And...
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The Women and Scottish Railway History Collection
Society, Politics & Law

The Women and Scottish Railway History Collection

...skills and confidence to pursue other learning opportunities with the OU. I hope that this will lead to further collaborations of this kind. Well done to all involved in this exciting project.” Jim Gray, Secretary, RMT Scottish Regional Council: [Jim Gray]“The RMT Scottish Regional Council were in full support of this initiative organised by the RMT Learning Organiser...
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