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Spain steels itself for another election after months with no government
Society, Politics & Law

Spain steels itself for another election after months with no government

...change yet the results produced the most fragmented parliament since 1977. No party secured a majority, and none has since been able to form a government. The numbers simply don’t add up. The most obvious combination was an alliance between the largest party, Mariano Rajoy’s Partido Popular (PP), and the smaller, centre-right Ciudadanos (Citizens) party, who together...
The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...change in our behaviour – in other words how populations understand ageing and what they can change in their everyday lives to support healthier lives when this is needed. As a public health intervention, Ageing Well Public Talk Series has the potential to make an impact on health and social care economies via the expected reduction of preventable disease, and support...
Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
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Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling

...change meaning based on who we are and what our experiences are’. This is how the artist Helen Cammock explains the thinking behind one aspect of her work. Joint winner of the Turner Prize in 2019, Cammock uses a variety of methods and materials – video, performance, photography – to explore the multitude of personal stories and people’s histories which are...
What happens to our brain as we age and how can we stop the decline?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to our brain as we age and how can we stop the decline?

...change with age (prefrontal cortex and hippocampus). This is why many people report it feels harder to learn new things in later life than as a child and remembering and paying attention to information can feel harder with age. These changes are due to more than one thing: changes in neurotransmitters and neurones (the highways of the brain); the presence of plaques...
Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...change can come from joining government and business, or must come from dismantling these institutions, is a defining question for all three major waves of women’s organizing. Elite white women have disproportionately benefited from each wave of women’s organizing in the United States. And, importantly, while left-leaning men, and men more generally, now theoretically...
Trade Union membership cards - more than just a card
Society, Politics & Law

Trade Union membership cards - more than just a card

...changed. Protests must have led to the reinstatement of the plastic card holder, as it was there again in 1994). The diaries and cards carried the NUR logo until 1990, then moved onto the new RMT logo. From my membership cards I can put together more memories of my time working in the railway, and also identify other information about the trade union’s work at that...
Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...changes? What lies behind these strands of imitation and innovation?...Find out about The Open University's Languages, cultures and communication courses. Folk music is music that is rarely written for profit, music that has endured, often passed down by oral tradition, investing a sense of identity in artist and listener alike. Folk music has imitation at its core. Its...
Newsworthy Lawyers
Society, Politics & Law

Newsworthy Lawyers

...discusses the developments that led to this revolutionary change with Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of The Times, under whose professional investigative journalism resulted in the democratisation of law... Newsworthy Lawyers Professor Gary Slapper of The Open University, and Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of The Times, discuss opening up the legal system for public scrutiny....