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Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?

...Social Attitudes Survey shows the true extent of concerns about immigration. Clear majorities thought migrants were having a net negative effect on British schools and the NHS. This was an area where there was substantial agreement between people with different levels of education. Another area in which the public was even more of one mind was in their awareness that the...
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How afraid of death are we?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How afraid of death are we?

...social psychologists have, for almost 30 years now, examined the social and psychological effects of being confronted with our own mortality. In well over 200 experiments, individuals have been instructed to imagine themselves dying. The first study of this kind was conducted on US municipal court judges, who were asked to set bond for an alleged prostitute in a...
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Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...Social Security (1980) Inequalities in Health: Report of a Working Group chaired by Sir Douglas Black, Department of Health and Social Security, London. Eknoyan, G. (2008) ‘Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874) – the average man and indices of obesity’, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 47–51. Elliott, E. and Williams, G. (2008) ‘Developing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Communication in the healthcare sector
Education & Development

Communication in the healthcare sector

...Social Care...Types of communication in the healthcare sector [Communication in the healthcare sector page images] This is a resource that highlights forms of communication in Health and Social Care. The resource applies to students studying level 3 concepts in the field such as Principles and Contexts or A levels. Open this resouce. Communication (Principles and Contexts...
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First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...social enterprise working primarily in arts and culture and performance-based work and participatory community arts. We train new and emerging artists and we provide opportunities for real-time experience in the creative industries working alongside professionals both in the corporate realm and the public realm as well as devising our own projects. JULIA CHARLES: We...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
No place like home: Prisons and homelessness
Society, Politics & Law

No place like home: Prisons and homelessness

...work, privacy, decent food, or shelter and are often without good health. For many homeless people, life in prison is likely to exacerbate already existing personal troubles and health problems and does very little to address the existential crises generated by being without a home in wider society. Home is a place of intimacy, familiarity and meaning. It is a place of...
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Do we really listen to children and young people?
Education & Development

Do we really listen to children and young people?

...working groups, like Ellie Jones who we have interviewed about her experiences with the Diana Award. In addition, children and young people can design and carry out their own research as a way of informing local community and national policy and practice. Our research at the Open University’s Children’s Research Centre focuses on different aspects of participation in...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...work was greeted with critical acclaim. Morrissey won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for an unpublished manuscript at the age of 18, making her the youngest poet ever to do so. Three of her first four collections were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, which she eventually won with Parallax. She is also recipient of the Irish Times Poetry Now Prize and the Foreword Poetry...
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