3,137 search results

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...working poor rely almost exclusively on cash, with about 97 percent of all transactions involving an exchange of rupees. With 93 percent of the country working in informal off-the-books jobs, most transactions entail personalized relationships rather than standardized forms of legal contract or corporate institutions. My own research on the persistence of Delhi’s...
Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story
Society, Politics & Law

Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story

...working in the railway? After three years at the Inland Revenue and having no luck with each promotion I went for, I spotted an advert in the local paper looking for Train Conductors to join Scotrail. As a single mum at the time, I had a heart to heart with my young daughter’s childminder and she encouraged me to go for it and said that we would work her caring for...
Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...work -‘Impossible Peace’. Our focus now is the period 2005/10, and what happened after the IRA decision to end its armed campaign at 4pm on Thursday, July 28th 2005...[Impossible Peace 2: Dismantling the wars collection trailer] Click here to download the video transcript (docx) A World of War -power, ego and little leadership [Photo of Brian Rowan, a former BBC...
The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care

...work in sports injury related roles has increased dramatically over the years. Fifty years ago there were only a limited number of sports in which you could work in a full-time sports medicine related role (e.g. physiotherapist) in the UK, but now due to increased professionalisation in sport and lottery funding there are more opportunities. Additionally, there has been...
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...work here in Morogoro, a few hundred kilometres west of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, on a programme to sniff out tuberculosis (TB). TB is a disease that can destroy the lungs. About 9 million new cases are diagnosed worldwide every year, one-quarter of them in Africa. Africa also has the highest TB death rate per head of population. Antibiotics can cure TB,...
PodMag June 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag June 2016

...focuses on the Centre for Citizenship Identity and Governance (CCIG). Karen Foley interviews Director Elizabeth Silva about CCIG, Paul Stenner and Naomi Moller about the Psychosocial research programme, Liz McFall about the Digital Citizens research programme, and Peter Wood about dissemination of CCIG’s work. Select here for a copy of the transcript of this audio...
Are you ready to study for a Professional Doctorate?
Education & Development

Are you ready to study for a Professional Doctorate?

...out more about The Open University’s Social work qualifications. [Banner to enter the interactive] Click on the image above, to start your interactive experience... Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Click on the image above or here, to start your interactive experience......
Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?

...Works Centre for Wellbeing, wellbeing is about ‘how we are doing’ as individuals and communities. If considering wellbeing prompts a consideration of how someone is doing, this matters even if they have a terminal diagnosis or are dying. That is because the end of life is often a period of time which can extend from days to even over a year for people, and in that...