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This Sporting Planet
Society, Politics & Law

This Sporting Planet

...social meanings. Sport and Change Sue Tibballs chief Executive of the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) focuses on the role of women in sport and their representation. The WSF ensures that women are central to sport and not on the sidelines. Running for a Business Ed Warner is a city businessman who became part-time, non-executive chair of UK Athletics in 2007 and has had...
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Mental Health: Lennox Castle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental Health: Lennox Castle

...Social Care explains why the case study was selected for study and unpicks some of the issues that emerge. The material forms part of The Open University course K101 An introduction to health and social care... Mental Health: Lennox Castle A short introduction to this album. An introduction to health and social care Professor Joanna Bornat of the K101 course team gives an...
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LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference

...social progress in terms of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/trans and queer (LGBTQ) people including, for example, marriage equality in the United Kingdom (UK) and in many other Western countries. It would therefore be logical to assume that life has got considerably better for all LGBTQ individuals. Especially when considering that this social progress...
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Public health communication during a pandemic
Languages

Public health communication during a pandemic

...social media messaging, billboards, letters, postcards, and phone calls to ensure everyone is included in the communications. A key part in this process of dissemination is to ensure the message is accessible by different people and communities and that it is available in the multiple languages used in communities. Organisations like HealthWatch are vital in this process,...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...social injustice together: how early years practitioners and young children can respond to the climate crisis alongside non-human creatures and the material world around them...[Young child on a woodland path] If you work in childcare or education, it’s likely that at some point in your career you’ve grappled with recycling systems and had conversations about...
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Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...social issues, such as urban poverty and the failings of Victorian social welfare. At times, in his statements about so-called ‘savagery’, his writing plays with inferences about the comparative savagery of Victorian society and in his memorable figure of Mrs Jellyby in Bleak House (1850) he suggests that the British should pay attention to the mounting social...
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Black History Month 2021 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2021 talks

...social work education? In this seminar Dr Claire Felix-Baptiste aims to promote best practice in supporting Black students in social work education. The findings from this study are equally relevant to health and social care professional educators supporting Black students. [Unknown title] Transcript Supporting Black declaration of mental health: Black staff at the OU's...
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A polyglot life
Languages

A polyglot life

...social media was starting to play a more significant part in our language learning community too. Very soon, I was connecting with hundreds of other language learners via Facebook and Twitter too. I was able to meet with some of them also. The very first Polyglot Conference During the summer of 2011 in Poznan, through conversations with Luca Lampariello, the idea of...
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