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Society, Politics & Law
Sounds of environmental change
What does environmental change sound like? Dr George Revill argues that sound can be a powerful way of conveying how places are transformed by climate change.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted that Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in the UK were at greater risk of death from the virus. Dr Jenny Douglas explores racial inequalities in healthcare over the past 25 years in this article and video.
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Education & Development
Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
What more is there to learn than the content of your module? Postgraduate skills!
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History & The Arts
Historical perspectives on race
Race is not biological. It is a social construction. Yet we know that in our contemporary world and in history, this construction has real consequences. From enslavement and colonisation to resistance and revolution, the stories of people of colour are often left untold in accounts of the past. This free course, Historical perspectives on race, ...
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Education & Development
How can education contribute to sustainability?
What teachers on the Open University MA Education are doing.
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Education & Development
Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth
Want to build on your undergraduate study or further develop your thinking as a postgraduate? Here you will find a number of OpenLearn courses to help with the skills needed for postgraduate online distance learning.
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History & The Arts
What's creative about creative writing?
Can creativity be taught? How far can you be creative when translating other people's work? Listen to translators, authors and creative writing teachers as they explore these and other questions of creativity.
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Education & Development
Do music lessons help with children's other classes?
There's been research which suggests picking up an instrument can improve children's educational performance across the board. But is there really any proof?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace
It is well established that work impacts on people’s wellbeing. People often presume and create a separation between their work life and their private life. However, life events like having a terminal diagnosis, which may be considered private, can impact a person’s work. In this article, we provide several tips for supporting people with a ...
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History & The Arts
Heaven: What might it be like?
What might heaven look like, sound like, feel like?
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Education & Development
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
How should we, as a society, best respond to and prevent gang and knife crime and violent extremism?
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Society, Politics & Law
It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name
Should you ever change your identity in order to progress your career? Open University employee Sudesh Loi gives his views...