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The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...centres, often never to return, while also increasing potential access to, and participation in, higher education. Despite the many challenges presented, the demise of rural Ireland is exaggerated, though the challenges of peripherality remain. The uniqueness of each place yields certain opportunities to be harnessed, as Father McDyer recognised in the past, such as the...
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From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...research must rely on incomplete and evolving data. At the same time, experts often possess valuable domain knowledge. A clinician may draw on experience with similar treatments, while a climate scientist may understand long-term physical patterns and constraints. Even when experts cannot provide precise numerical answers, they can often describe what values are realistic...
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Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland

...research, I found that on one level, the practice is culturally invisible to the people who do it. Initially, some could not understand why I wanted to talk with them about a purely practical task. In my research diary, I recall Cillian saying: Danny, what is there to tell. If a neighbour dies, I dig a grave for them – what is there to tell? Tim thought the men who dig...
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All my own work
Education & Development

All my own work

...such as Avoiding Plagiarism and Referencing in our 'Being Digital' library. Sign up to events, such as live tutorials about referencing, via our Library Services. Find information on developing your Academic skills in the Study Skills area of our Student Help Centre. View our Plagiarism Policy which defines ‘plagiarism’ and highlights how to avoid academic misconduct....
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Humans better at rapid change than we think
Nature & Environment

Humans better at rapid change than we think

...Centre(based at the University of Sussex in the UK) and was funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council. It details 14 stories of the sort of change it believes we need now. The choice is necessarily highly selective – “just a glimpse of where we might look”, as the authors put it. One story describes the New Deal in 1930s America, which, the study...
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Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA
Science, Maths & Technology

Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA

...researchers all over the world producing information, is there a way for other scientists to look at large sets of results and use them to make new discoveries? ...A great deal of experimental data generated by scientists is now stored online in publicly available databases. Because of this, it can now be used (‘interrogated’) in large biological studies to uncover...
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Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...
History & The Arts

Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...

...centres for Spiritualism’, and Stoke-on-Trent is still home to three highly active Spiritualist churches enjoying healthy congregations and playing a significant role in their local communities. Dearly departed Most religious traditions have a view on what happens to us after death, but Spiritualism is unique in that it is based around the belief that the human soul,...
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Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students
Education & Development

Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students

...Research at The Open University shows that many Black STEM students experience isolation and a lack of connection to their academic community (Awan, 2025; MacBrayne et al., 2025). This is not a minor issue; it directly impacts confidence, engagement, and success. When students feel invisible or excluded from informal networks, their ability to thrive is compromised. If...
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