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Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...educate kids about the world and different cultures,” as the campaign website states. “Education” supposedly also was the aim of the exotic people displays from an earlier period. As I showed above, this was an “education” not in facts, knowledge, understanding and empathy but an “education” into a particular way of viewing the world: one where the foreign...
Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...Educational research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research (Vol. 7). Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River: NJ. Robson. C. (2011) Real world research. Wiley: Cornwall. Further reading: Farrow, R., Iniesto, F., Weller, M. & Pitt., R. (2020) The GO-GN Research Methods Handbook. Open Education Research Hub: The Open University, UK. CC-BY 4.0....
Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?

...technology is still in the laboratory stage, the research team is now working with an industry to demonstrate its scalability and effectiveness. Scaling up the process depends on factors such as the existence of an efficient supply chain of waste as well as viable business models “including the availability of capital, expected return and the policy environment,” says...
Can you harness intrapreneurship?
Money & Business

Can you harness intrapreneurship?

...technology and AI sees the OU’s Digital Skills Lead, Jane Dickinson joined by OU entrepreneur in residence Julian Hall and Capgemini’s Darren Campbell. Transcript Webinar 4: Making a difference – sustainability Finally, OU Sustainability Director Victoria Hands is joined by OU entrepreneur in residence, Alex Cole and green roof specialists, Bridgman and Bridgman, to...
Is Adele's decision to keep 25 off Spotify going to change the music industry?
History & The Arts

Is Adele's decision to keep 25 off Spotify going to change the music industry?

...technology affords, the more complex the patterns of music listening. As reported by the Guardian, a quarter of all songs listened to on Spotify are skipped in the first five seconds. So people clearly know what they don’t want to listen to. But does this active interest in music extend to entire albums? Tech by-product Despite the appearance that digital music...
How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...technology was based on our work on the earlier UK/German GEO600 detector. This turned LIGO into Advanced LIGO, arguably the most sensitive scientific instrument ever, to give us our first direct glimpse of the dark universe. Transcript A long time ago … What a glimpse it was. The two black holes that collided were respectively about 29 times and 36 times the mass of...
Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work

...technology and going online can be physically and emotionally exhausting. Excessive internet use has been linked to burnout at school. These are just some of the ways that millennials have been increasingly exposed to the same stressors that we know can negatively affect people in the workplace. We know very little about how millennials experience burnout. Early research...
Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...technological innovation in car production', (the introduction of robots) in the mid-1980s, in Britain and Brazil, there was a clear desire to connect with my father’s mechanical knowledge and attraction to motor vehicles. My switch to studying household technologies coincided with becoming a mother; I also wrote about mothering, lone mothering, ‘new’ families, and...