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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...doubles titles. After all, taking those into account as well, Martina Navratilova has won the most titles since tennis professionalised. And what about Grand Slam titles before then? If we take those into account, then Margaret Court has won the most Grand Slam titles. So, even if we think that Grand Slam titles are indicative of greatness, it’s not clear that Serena...
From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...double-shift, followed by one day off. So yes, much better balance. And my older daughter now says, oh now I have my family, I have my mother…. ‘ So, while migration to the UK could mean immediate improved everyday life for some of our interview partners, we also heard about exploitation, such as Amelia’s experience in the workplace: ‘I had an experience, working...
Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...et al 2016). There is an importance about thinking creatively about which professionals in the child’s network might be best placed to achieve this. This raises a number of key issues - how far will loyalty to parents or fear of talking inhibit children? Will older children be more reluctant to disclose what they see, hear, feel and experience than younger children? Key...
STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...et al., 2020). The Institute has given approval for a new occupational role and associated Level 7 (postgraduate) systems thinking practitioner apprenticeship (STPA) and the OU launches its own STPA programme in 2022. Led by ASTiP, the Open University was able to celebrate this unique pioneering tradition of fostering STiP capabilities for lifelong learning and managing...
Why is childbirth a medical procedure?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is childbirth a medical procedure?

...et al., 2002). Not surprisingly, defensive medical practice has been identified as another reason for the increasing medicalisation of childbirth. We live in a society where relatively few babies die and, when they do, it is assumed that someone or something must be blamed. However, defensive practice serves to undermine clinical decision making for the benefit of women...
The arts in Participatory Action Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

The arts in Participatory Action Research

...et al., 2023) to empower the women to make changes to their lives. PAR is a social, practical and collaborative activity where building relationships among all participants and the researchers is crucial in working towards self-determination and reform (Koch, 2006, 2015). PAR gives participants a voice to tell and find understandings of coping in their digital stories and...
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...double check the solution to the game between Alex and Bill. Answer Alex needs 1 point; Bill needs 2 points. Look in the third row. Add the first two numbers together, 1 + 2 = 3. There is only one last number, 1. Thus Alex gets 3/4 of the stake and Bill gets 1/4 of the stake. Since the stake is £60, they get £45 and £15 respectively as before. Pascal’s triangle was...
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...circulation figures for books and newspapers; public and circulating library borrowing records have been uncovered to demonstrate how often various titles were requested; the contents of private libraries have been catalogued; and even literacy rates have been used to estimate the size of the reading public. This evidence is considered to be ‘hard’ because it is...