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History & The Arts
Protestivals - What are they?
Protest Festivals or ‘Protestivals’ as they are also known, might seem like a relatively new concept, but scholars say that the roots of this particular form of protest can be found in the alternative globalisation movements that started in the 1980s.
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History & The Arts
An education in Religion and Worldviews
Religious education is a statutory requirement for all school children in England. This course explores how the teaching and scholarly community is working to ensure this curriculum remains relevant for the twenty-first century. It is aimed at parents, faith and community group members and all others who might be interested in the purpose and ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Get outdoors and get active
Designed to inspire outdoors activity while you carry on learning, our fun ideas cover a range of subjects from nature, psychology and astronomy, to health and wellbeing. Take a digital detox from screens and notifications with OpenLearn.
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Education & Development
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
You might think that knowing about country facts or differences between cultures is the key to being interculturally competent – but that is in fact only a small piece of the puzzle! Intercultural competence is an umbrella term for a range of qualities, attitudes and skills that allow you to mediate and communicate appropriately and effectively ...
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Education & Development
Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
In this article Dr Laura Tan gives a fresh mixed-race perspective on having twice the cultures, twice the workload… so it was only right that she had twice the celebration at graduation!
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Society, Politics & Law
Ecology and economy under the fig tree in South Asian Cities
Trees in South Asia are protected for their religious symbolism, so you’ll find them in crowded cities. Shonil Bhagwat looks at their natural and cultural heritage.
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Education & Development
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
This free course, A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora), will support anyone based in an education setting to develop an understanding of effective mentoring of beginner teachers in the initial teacher education and newly qualified phases. It has been designed using the experiences of colleagues working within the Welsh education system, but ...
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Society, Politics & Law
Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?
Is the idea of integrated education in Northern Ireland a vehicle for social cohesion, or for perpetuating community divisions?
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Education & Development
Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK
The pushy South Asian parent is a stereotype you may have seen depicted in films and on the television but is it true? Devendra Kodwani reflects on his own experience as a parent.
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Society, Politics & Law
My experience as a shop steward: British Leyland in the 1960s and 1970s
Thora Hands interviewed Linda Fisher in early 2022 about her time working at the British Leyland factory, Bathgate, West Lothian. This was one of the largest plants of its kind established in the UK in the post-1945 era and was to represent an important source of employment for an overwhelmingly male workforce drawn from across Central Scotland.
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Society, Politics & Law
The story of a female postal worker
Nowadays women can do any job they want. Women have fought for years to be able to work, vote, and have our own opinions. So, what’s it like to be working within a workplace, Royal Mail, that is still male dominant, with women postal workers comprising just under 20% of the workforce?
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Society, Politics & Law
A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
The NHS was built on the labour of migrant workers from around the world. This article questions whether this can be called a ‘British institution’ given the constitutive role that migrants, including those from South Asia, played in fundamentally shaping the services offered by the NHS.