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How inclusive is women’s football?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How inclusive is women’s football?

...research on the experiences of female footballers has focused on issues related to gender. This has often emphasised the shared experience of females participating in a traditionally male-dominated sport. But this approach has been argued to be too generalised and can neglect the quite varied experiences that different women face. More recently, researchers have begun to...
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Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...researchers at the University of Sheffield who, over the last few years, have been studying the uneven impact of how the cities of Manchester and Salford in the North West of England are being opened up to processes of financialisaton, understood as the transformation of housing from a public good into a commodity. Researchers Rich Goulding, Adam Leaver and Jon Silver...
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Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important

...Research shows that NAs have a significant and important part to play in healthcare teams but rarely is this widely noted (Thurgate & Griggs, 2023). It is our ethos at the Open University that everyone should be encouraging, empowering, enabling and ennobling the NA role to all stakeholders, including the public. [Nurse holding hands with a patient.] We believe it’s...
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Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...research. ...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Anna Plassart]I never intended to become a historian; my first degree was in economics. But I discovered that I was less interested in contemporary economic theory than in the history of economic thought. Eighteenth-century...
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Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
History & The Arts

Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery

...researcher at the Brewing Research Foundation, I discovered the process of converting barley into malt – the Barley Abrasion Process – which was patented in 1969 and used immediately by the British brewing industry. I returned to Heriot Watt University as a member of staff from 1977 to 2005 and it was a great honour for me to receive an honorary doctorate from The...
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Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment
Education & Development

Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment

...research, student participants across 99 universities were asked about relevant contributing factors to any ethnicity attainment gaps – the highest response (87%) was the lack of HE role models representing all ethnic groups. The research goes on to identify that having a more diverse workforce is a key factor to addressing the attainment gap (Universities UK, 2019)....
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How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...research has investigated the ways in which the brain, and other parts of the body, respond to the arts. Many art forms trigger both intellectual and multi-sensory responses, drawing on different areas of the brain. Many also invoke an emotional response, perhaps engaging with memories. Some art forms further include physical activity, such as dancing or singing, leading...
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Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...Research Center, a facility run by the US Department of Agriculture. When we visit, the kitchen staff are preparing dinner for people enrolled in a study. Plastic dinner trays are laid out with meatloaf, mashed potatoes, corn, brown bread, a chocolate-chip scone, vanilla yoghurt and a can of tomato juice. The staff weigh and bag each item, sometimes adding an extra...
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