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Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...changes to their professional (and personal) relationships. Major challenges for managers in 2020 and early 2021 have been to set up and facilitate remote team working and to build and maintain productive relationships among colleagues who are no longer able to meet in person. A key question has been how to enable successful team working when people are part of virtual...
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Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities

...climate and environmental justice perspective. Reducing socio-economic and transport access inequalities; the experience of The Parks Trust The Parks Trust, if you don’t already know, is a self-financing charity that cares for 6000 acres of parks and greenspace in Milton Keynes. The Parks Trust understands public parks are an amazing resource for health and wellbeing...
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How OpenLearn uses third-party content
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How OpenLearn uses third-party content

...change roles or institutions. We will not update author details to reflect these changes unless: We publish more up-to-date material from the same author; Or the author specifically requests the change Once published, we treat the content as we would any other item - and so it will be covered by our polices on older content and commenting. Please note this policy only...
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Life behind a mask
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life behind a mask

...changed due to wearing a face mask? Dr Marina Cantarutti, Interactional Linguist and Research Associate at The Open University, shares her thoughts...This year has seen the world change in ways we never could have imagined: socially distancing from friends and loved ones, remote working implemented across the UK, washing and sanitising our hands for more than 20 seconds,...
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The reason for low wages
Money & Business

The reason for low wages

...changed is matter of intense scholarly and public debate. Indeed, there are even arguments that wages should not be raised! Here I provide an overview of the current reasons for low wages and how this problem can best be addressed. Significantly, the problem of low wages is nothing new for capitalist economies. Since the mass introduction of wage labour in the 19th...
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Department of the Commons
Society, Politics & Law

Department of the Commons

...change the municipal statute by inserting the “commons” as one of the interests to be protected and recognised. For example, the Department is working to recognise the legitimacy of occupied buildings in the city and organising public discussion tables in occupied buildings where citizens share decision-making power with the Administration. It was initiated by local...
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Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments: Tornadoes
Science, Maths & Technology

Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments: Tornadoes

...damage along their path. Tornadoes have been seen on every continent on Earth except Antarctica; although you may associate some of the most violent examples with North America, they are surprisingly common in the UK as well. This video demonstrates the power of a tornado and how the weight, shape and size of different particles changes the tornado's conduct. Transcript...
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What does it mean, to be a man?
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What does it mean, to be a man?

...changed enormously over time. So what does it mean to be a man in the twenty-first century? Do traditional ideas about masculinity still apply, and if not, what kinds of new ideas have replaced them? Explore our interactive below to learn more...[Main character sitting on sofa with pizza and beers - banner to enter interactive] Click on the image above, to start your...
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