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The European Union and the impact on mixed nationality relationships in northern Finland
Society, Politics & Law

The European Union and the impact on mixed nationality relationships in northern Finland

...economy of a Brexit. Journal of European Public Policy 23(9):1302-1310. Ottaviano, G., J. Pessoa, T. Sampson and J. Van Reenen (2014) ‘The Costs and Benefits of Leaving the EU’, Centre for Economic Performance Policy Analysis. Vertovec, S. (2011). Conceiving and researching transnationalism. Ethnic and Racial Studies 22 (2) 1999:447-467. Read more articles like this...
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Glastonbury and the festival
History & The Arts

Glastonbury and the festival

...Lecturer in Religious Studies, gives an overview of the goddess worship that takes place in Glastonbury town, including a conference, a goddess temple, a gift shop and even a procession where revellers gather to make a public statement of their devotion to the goddess. Transcript [Glastonbury hippies sign] Image taken by Dr Marion Bowman in Glastonbury during the 70s....
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Money and Emotions
Money & Business

Money and Emotions

...public) think and decide about money. xDelia is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme... Money and Emotions The xDelia project is a European Commission funded research programme being conducted by The Open University and other partners to research the link between emotions and financial decisions. The aim is to devise new ways to bolster...
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Atom Bomb in Popular Culture
History & The Arts

Atom Bomb in Popular Culture

...end. Mad About A Bomb By the end of the 1950s, public opinion about the bomb had started to shift. A Bomb Under Reagan By the 1970s the Cold War tensions were beginning to thaw, as people grew less worried about nuclear catastrophe than about the Vietnam War. A Bomb On The Loose By the 1980s the Soviet Union had spent decades pouring money into weapons and foreign wars....
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Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...Health Service and in healthcare worldwide. She has recently taken up the role as RAND Professor of Health Services Research, having moved here from the University of Leicester. It is, she admits, going to be a challenge. Many different policies and approaches have been tried to date, but few with widespread success, and often with unintended consequences. Financial...
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OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...Health and social care workers As the Coronavirus pandemic took hold, NHS and local authority leaders through the UK called on hundreds of thousands of former health and social care workers to return to front-line roles. OpenLearn responded by collaborating with retired and active health and social care practitioners across The Open University to build and publish its...
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The arts in Participatory Action Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

The arts in Participatory Action Research

...health resilience study, enabled a group of women in Guyana to address the violent and abusive domestic environments facing them. They had left their homes and communities to live in a sheltered domestic violence refuge with their children. Drawing pictures, reciting poems, and writing stories about those traumatic experiences helped them to develop positive thinking and...
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The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it

...health and abilities, as well as experiencing the loss of a loved one. Given life’s challenges it is likely that we will experience periods of low mood or anxiety. For some people these experiences will be short-term in nature, while for others they can last for a long time. For those where their problems are severe and enduring, formal healthcare services are...
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