Over 20 years of experience writing and editing for newspapers, magazines, websites, companies...A lot of the work that I do now isn't bylined, so the clippings shown are just journalistic content.
The Open University (OU) has been producing its annual Trends in Learning reports for over a decade, exploring innovations in workplace learning and what they mean for the business community.
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Recent work
Learning Insights: Neuroscience eBook: Wolfgang Reichelt, Nigel Paine, Martin Couzins, Roisin Woolnough: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
"Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin..." Storytelling in the traditional sense - through books, films or one person to another around the campfire - is a simple enough concept to understand. The urge to tell and hear stories is fundamental to human nature and we have been doing it for years and years, right back to caveman days.
Our aim is to clean the seas from the waste that is on the seabeds or entangled in shipwrecks and transform them into yarn and then into products. There are roughly 640,000 tons of abandoned fishing nets - widely known as ' ghost nets' - in the oceans.
The older stuff
In the second of a series on intellectual property rights, Tim Berners-Lee tells Roisin Woolnough that the net must be a public space.
Half the UK population meet their future partner at work, with 40% admitting to at least one fling with a colleague, according to a book called Sex at Work (Capita, £8.99). But not all employers are happy about staff indulging in office romances and some now require employees to sign a love contract, agreeing to certain standards of behaviour if embarking on a relationship with a colleague.
Ecotextile News - February/March 2014 - by Roisin Woolnough Ancient and endangered forests are increasingly being cut down and pulped to make fabrics such as rayon and viscose. So says the environmental organisation Canopy.
In an exclusive interview, creator of the World-Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee tells Roisin Woolnough where it is all going. His parents met while working on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first computer to be sold commercially. His mother became known as the "first commercial computer programmer" after accompanying the Ferranti to its installation site.
If every office worker in the UK turned off their computer monitor and screen when they left work each night, the effect on national carbon emissions would be significant. And if the last person to leave the office ensured that all lights and other office equipment were switched off, the effect would be even greater.