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Systems Practice case study - The CEO
Money & Business

Systems Practice case study - The CEO

...accounts for them. * ordered extra keys for their offices, obtained the forms for security passes to the building and the car park. On the day of arrival On the day of their arrival we: * met them as they arrived * gave them ten minutes in their offices * gave them time with their secretaries who helped them with the forms, directed them to loos and where various...
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‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS
Society, Politics & Law

‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS

...accountant with a bright future, but as Sofi was less academic the opportunities available to her in Malaysia were limited to perhaps marriage. Scotland offered Sofi the chance to train in the nursing profession, with a new life, in a new country, with more opportunities. However, life in Scotland brought its own challenges. On a daily basis Sofi encountered racism in the...
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Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...account the weather, the amount of debt a person has after Christmas and their ability to pay it off on payday, the time elapsed since Christmas, levels of motivation and the need to take action, and how long it was since people had broken New Year’s resolutions. The countries where Blue Monday applies aren’t specified. The equation still appears on his website, but...
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Why do England fail in international football competitions?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do England fail in international football competitions?

...account for this underachievement and one is the "big structure" one – this is the establishment of the Football League in 1888. How did the consequences of this move interfere with England’s possible progress in international football? Anthony King: Well I think the key point here is to not blame the FA in an individualised way, blaming their secretaries, and the...
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The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries
Society, Politics & Law

The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries

...account of the Ryedale Strike of 1912 has been drawn from a much longer article which appeared in the Scottish Labour History, journal of the Scottish Labour History Society, volume 55, 2020 (see below), and which was constructed primarily from reports of the strike in the two early C20 Dumfries newspapers: the Dumfries Standard & Advertiser and the Dumfries Courier &...
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The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911
Society, Politics & Law

The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911

...account of the strike can be found in The Singer Strike Clydebank, 1911, (1989) Glasgow Labour History Workshop, Clydebank District Libraries. Glasgow Digital Library, Red Clydeside, Timeline of events, The Singer strike 1911. Primary Sources used in the preparation of this part of the publication were; Clydebank and Renfrew Press Engineering Forward Glasgow evening News...
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Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...accounts such as Scott of the Antarctic (1948) and Dunkirk (1958). Working at Ealing, Basil Dearden developed the ‘social problem film’ within a fictional format, such as The Blue Lamp (1950) dealing with juvenile delinquency, reflecting a contemporary moral panic, and later Sapphire (1959) which dealt with issues of race and immigration following the Notting Hill...
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Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...accountable to those being researched (Barnes, 2003). Nor, perhaps is it surprising if such research seeks to involve diverse voices from the outset and as key participants throughout. But what about a less obviously participatory approach, such as a quantitative study of earring wearing in North London (I made that up)? What has that got to do with equality, diversity...
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