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Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
Education & Development

Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection

...Business and Law’s Open Justice and the Centre for Policing Research and Learning (CPRL) culminated in the OU’s Black History Month event entitled ‘Student voices on race and policing in the US and UK‘. This online event included Open Justice OU students discussing their experiences engaging in the race and policing project and their development of the topics for...
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Reflecting on Race at The Open University
Education & Development

Reflecting on Race at The Open University

...Business and Law. The late Andrea Levy, an acclaimed author who explored topics related to British Jamaicans, and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities, was put forward by the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies. Evelyn Boyd Granville, the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American University,...
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5 quick tips to boost your wellbeing
Education & Development

5 quick tips to boost your wellbeing

...busy, and we can neglect our own wellbeing, letting others and situations place demands on our time and emotional energy. To protect our wellbeing, we need to set boundaries. This might mean dedicating specific ‘worry time’, so anxious thoughts don’t take over our current situation. It could also involve blocking out time in your work diary for healthy activities,...
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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...business - anyone could do it. Physicians with university degrees treated internal illnesses. Surgeons, who learnt by apprenticeship, treated wounds, fractures and external illnesses. Apothecaries made and sold medicines, barber surgeons bled patients and pulled teeth. Herbal remedies were administered by those who had learned the tradition orally - often harnessing the...
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An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
Languages

An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher

...busy activities does not necessarily mean effective teaching and learning have taken place. Students can lose track during the process of performing tasks and fail to see the logical links between each activity. Progressions can break down and students can be worn out eventually. The consequence is that students are becoming emotionally highly charged due to the...
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Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist
Society, Politics & Law

Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist

...business/britishairways Tim Lezard (2017) ‘BA strikers take their struggle to Parliament’, union-news.co.uk, February 7: https://www.union-news.co.uk/ba-strikers-take-their-struggle-to-parliament/ Dan Milmo (2009) ‘BA strike: conflict that was always on airline's flight path. Clash with cabin crew had been looming since privatisation’, The Guardian, December 15:...
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Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...businesses, developers and users would make more conscious decisions about what data needed to be transmitted, yet today we are metaphorically surrounded by ‘data lakes’ – huge virtual warehouses of data that have been collected with the hope that one day some value could be derived from them. While connectivity may now be considered to have a reasonably low...
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Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...business elites and block access to those deemed a security risk or the ‘wrong’ kind of migrant. In writing about the borders of Europe, Etienne Balibar, a French political philosopher, asserted that “borders are no longer the shores of the political but have indeed become… things within the space of the political itself”. By this, I take him to mean that...
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