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Forgotten families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forgotten families

...data somewhat oversimplifies the complex relationship between parental imprisonment and childhood experiences. Despite such findings, children are not systematically identified and recorded when a parent goes to prison, and they remain a forgotten and largely unsupported group. Recent research estimates that the number of children of prisoners in the UK is approximately...
What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...class="highlight">data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey. NHS England (2023) ‘NHS Long Term Workforce Plan’, NHS England. Available at: https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/nhs-long-term-workforce-plan-2/#references. The Nuffield Trust (2024) The NHS Workforce in Numbers. Available at: https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/the-nhs-workforce-in-numbers....
Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?

...data, we found that that entire correlation was driven by countries that had in place a policy by which copayments were imposed in the public sector.” That means some of the poorest of the poor need to fork over a copayment anytime they want to receive antibiotics from a public sector provider. That gives us a pretty good idea of why someone might decide to use the...
Supporting care-experienced students in UK higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting care-experienced students in UK higher education

...data from Scotland show that there have been improvements in attainment and progression in care-experienced students (The Scottish Government, 2026). Care-experienced students account for just 12% of enrolments. Types of support needed at university So, what can be done to support care-experienced students? It is important to remember that care-experienced students often...
Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...data CD disguised as a music disc, from which the materials were transferred to a laptop and then to the WikiLeaks servers for dissemination. The reports were widely published around the world and caused enormous diplomatic embarrassment for the United States government. Manning was eventually identified after confessing in an online chat to Adrian Lamo, who informed the...
Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...Data taken from the Demographic Health surveys of Kenya (2014), Malawi (2015-16), Mozambique (2011), Nigeria (2018), South Africa (2016), Tanzania (2015-16), Uganda (2016), Zambia (2018) and Zimbabwe (2015) that are nationally representative Source: STATCOMPILER tables Due to COVID-19 several countries have witnessed a fall in institutional deliveries. This is mainly due...
Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...data to be sure. Are they actually similar to Earth’s continents, and if they are, what does that mean for Venus? Could they have formed in a similar environment to Earth? There’s some speculation that Venus might still be volcanically active. If future missions find fresh lava flows, it might confirm that. I’ll use the data I gathered in the Icelandic basalt to...
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...analysis of the five participants’ data. You will be reading about Sophie, a 30-year-old European New Zealander. Prior to entering the Masters teaching programme, Sophie had a bachelor’s degree double majoring in marketing and advertising and worked as an account manager. Read: from The paragraph which begins: ‘In terms of the kind of teacher she would like to be’...