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Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative

...analysis by purported experts, is subject to heavy bias, often from vested interests. My main object of study, Iran, is exposed to crass generalisations about its government and ambitions which paint it as the regional bogeyman, hell-bent on pursuing a sectarian agenda in the region’s complex geopolitics. This is not to say that the Islamic Republic is an entirely...
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Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...analysis, evaluation, and criticality which allow me to present well-founded opinions." - Claire "I hadn't studied for 30 years and didn't know whether I could write academically. I have had to work hard on this as am still very slow but now write something every day and can see how this is helping me at work, even with emails." - Sara "Studying on the course has made a...
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Calculating your carbon footprint
Nature & Environment

Calculating your carbon footprint

...analysis shows that over half the emissions reductions needed to meet the Sixth Carbon Budget [a 78% reduction on 1990 UK territorial emissions by 2035] involve people making low-carbon choices, whether adjusting to the different characteristics of low-carbon technologies (eg, electric cars), or by changing their current consumption patterns (eg, by eating less meat)....
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I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem
Society, Politics & Law

I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem

...analysis...Channel 4 has billed its new reality show, Jury: Murder Trial, as a “landmark experiment”. A real-life murder trial is being re-staged in front of two juries of ordinary people to establish whether both groups will reach the same verdict. Some critics have speculated that the show could cause the public to “lose all faith in the British justice system”....
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The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport

...processes in the development of modern boxing’, Sport in society, 9(4), pp. 542–58. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17430430600768785. Van Gestel, J. (2018) Norbert Elias and the analysis of history and sport: systematizing figurational sociology. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge studies in social and political thought, 134)....
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Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...analysis of data, understanding the behaviour of economic institutions such as companies and households, and analysing economic processes. It also seeks to show how all of these economic techniques can be used to build up a rich understanding of innovation and economic change. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...Innovation, markets and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists

...of national authorities, insisting on better research in state projects, and better data in state development plans. The network and its news can also be followed at RedLBC‘s Twitter account and the hashtag #CienciaLatina. This article was translated for Global Voices Online by Hazina Cain-Houston, and originally published on Global Voices Online under a CC-BY licence...
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How do natural disasters affect mental health?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How do natural disasters affect mental health?

...data from Puerto Rico’s health department suggests that suicides were up nearly a third in September and October compared to the same period for 2016. Physicians know that extreme events can have negative impacts on mental health, causing symptoms of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But in a recent paper, researchers admitted that much is...
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