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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...geography, social policy, psychology, architectural studies and design. For all ages home builds and supports personal identity. It is a place of belonging, social relationships and family, privacy, comfort, valued objects and possessions, connection and rootedness (Peace, 2015). The nature of home in relation to work and care continues to change as families, communities...
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Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
Society, Politics & Law

Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...geography commonly considered landscape to be a description of physical, topographical landform. From the late 1980s and into the 1990s a greater focus became placed on the representational qualities of landscapes. In other words, a landscape (and in particular, the landscapes of fine art and photography) could represent a wider story of meanings such as national identity...
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Can we be categorised by our DNA?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can we be categorised by our DNA?

...geography and the people – Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt, the Middle East, Turkey, Greece, Italy all form a geographical continuum and between France and South Africa, and the people of those countries also form a link in terms of their population history, genetics, and appearance. In between, geographical features such as the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea have shaped the...
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Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach

...geography. However, a person rarely falls into just one category. We can see differences between people in the same group e.g. religion, and we must also be mindful of how these different factors combine and affect an individual’s health status, and their access to and experience of health services – often described as intersectionality. Older people’s health...
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Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?

...geography and history. The latter might be made palatable by being wrapped in tales of adventure, perhaps told through the eyes of a fictional boy or girl. But the old assumptions of British leadership, and settler kinship, were still there. Over time, these annuals’ names changed to reflect the acceleration of decolonisation. The Empire Youth Annual became the Empire...
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‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982
Society, Politics & Law

‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982

...Geographies of deindustrialization and the working‐class: Industrial ruination, legacies, and affect’. Geography Compass (12:2): 1-14, 2019. Gibbs, E. Coal Country. The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland. London: University of London Press, 2021. High, S. MacKinnon, L. and Perchard, A. ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-14 in High, S. MacKinnon, L....
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Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...geography and anthropology, development studies, planning, political science and sociology. The framework developed in this course is meant to serve as an analytical heuristic, a device for framing the questions that should be asked when seeking to understand any particular urban issue or a place-based problem. Find out more about studying with The Open University by...
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What is COVID-19?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is COVID-19?

...geography is irrelevant. What is perhaps more important is the fact that the early cases of infection were associated with a fish and livestock market, and that genome sequencing of the virus shows that it is similar to coronaviruses normally found in bats. The working hypothesis is that this virus has made the leap from bats to humans, possibly via an intermediary...
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