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Why deaf prisoners have been in a state of lockdown since well before COVID-19
Written by Daniel McCulloch, Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy, The Open University and Laura Kelly-Corless, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Central Lancashire. The pandemic has worsened already dire conditions for prisoners since the UK Prison Service locked down the prison estate last year. Following drastic changes to the regime, most imprisoned people have since spent between […]
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Suez stranding: Containing the supply chain
As the movement of ships has now resumed in the Suez Canal since the Ever Given container ship became wedged across the waterway last month, the OU’s Emeritus Professor of politics and global studies Graham Thompson considers what this incident tells us about globalisation in today’s world. Firstly he looks back at a programme made […]
App-y with that: research finds tech is an aid in relationships
Research funded and led by The Open University is the first to demonstrate how using an App can play an effective role in relationships among couples. A report just published by the OU and the University of Brighton studied use of the relationship app Paired, following its launch last October as part of ongoing research […]
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OU/BBC co-production The Detectives: Fighting Organised Crime returns for a new series
A new series co-produced between the BBC and The Open University offers viewers a fascinating insight into the dark and brutal world of organised crime. The Detectives: Fighting Organised Crime begins on Tuesday 23rd March at 9pm on BBC Two. The two-part series was filmed over two years with fly on the wall access to […]
TV cameras explore rich story of goldmining in Scottish Highlands
For almost 40 years, it has been known that there is gold in the hills just outside the village of Tyndrum in the Scottish Highlands. Now a new Open University/BBC Scotland documentary, Gold Town, follows the fortunes of a band of miners as they attempt to extract it and establish Scotland’s very first commercial gold […]
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Budget 2021: experts react
Rishi Sunak has unveiled his second budget as UK chancellor a year into the coronavirus pandemic and during the worst economic collapse in centuries. Our panel of experts offer their views on what he has announced. Edited version of the article to focus on the contribution from Jonquil Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal […]
Furlough scheme: UK has to extend it, but there are serious risks
Dr Alan Shipman, senior lecturer in economics at The Open University, writes about the risk surrounding another extension of the UK furlough scheme. Finance ministers usually rejoice when businesses and employees alike both plead for a signature scheme to be extended. But for UK chancellor Rishi Sunak, demands to continue the country’s Coronavirus Job Retention […]
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Red kites and ravens swooped through Elizabethan London – and helped keep the city clean
Dr Lee Raye, associate lecturer in arts and humanities, at The Open University, has written a piece which is based on their new report on wild creatures which inhabit London, focusing on red kites and ravens. We sometimes think of cities as concrete deserts inhabited only by humans, pigeons and rats. But that has never […]
Why the World Rugby guidelines banning trans athletes from the women’s game are reasonable
Looking at aspects of safety, fairness and inclusivity, senior lecturer in philosophy Dr Jon Pike at The Open University discusses World Rugby’s guidelines on participation in the women’s game published in 2020. In 2020, World Rugby undertook a painstaking policy process to address the issue of transwomen in rugby. This led to guidelines that exclude […]
Research reveals support for Scottish reforms among legal professionals
New research published this week shows support from the legal profession in Scotland to reforming elements of the Scottish jury system. The research, from The Open University (OU) and published in the Journal of Medicine, Science and Law brings fresh input into the ongoing debate over reforms to the historic jury system in Scotland. It […]
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