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How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...social life as it was for many of her contemporaries and she was at her best as a humorist writing about these occasions. She records with glee the various mishaps that befall musicians and audiences – a prima donna throwing down her music in a rage; a button popping off the plump Clive Bell’s waistcoat during the slow movement of a piano sonata; an elderly man...
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The OU Welcomes Carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The OU Welcomes Carers

...social life. For example, 71% of carers have poor physical or mental health, 22% live in poverty and 80% are lonely or socially isolated (Carers UK, 2021). [A young woman leaning over an elderly, frail man in a bed, caring for him and possible a daughter.]Caring also impacts on education and employment; those who have been young adult carers have lower GCSE attainment,...
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Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...social tools. The values and norms around copyright and sharing of public-funded work are being revisited from within education and beyond. The potential of open knowledge is becoming more widely recognised and evaluated. Activity 1 Timing: Timing: 1 hour On the H818 course that forms part of The Open University’s Masters in Online and Distance Education we encourage...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...social change. However, modernism permeated European society more generally through the modernist architecture of new social housing projects, and the use of modern art and design by a range of political movements on the right and left (including the Republican government in Spain and the Fascists in Italy). If ordinary people were not conversant with modernism, many,...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...social care workers. The UK has 13 health and social care regulators and 29 registers that require people on the register to meet certain behaviours and skills (in 2024). These regulators register people with the qualifications and experience to work in their profession. Fitness to Practise is a process where people can refer concerns to regulators about people on their...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...social, political or cultural circumstances in which a person lives, particularly with respect to their effect on behaviour and attitude. This flexibility means it is a very convenient term that can be used in many situations. But this flexibility can create problems. Principal amongst them is reference to ‘the environment’...Environmental management and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Department of the Commons
Society, Politics & Law

Department of the Commons

...by local government and encourages people to participate through voting, organising and campaigning and public assembly. Dept of the Commons is local in orientation and concerned with anti-discrimination, equality and social justice, democracy, politics, participation, environmental sustainability and representation. It was launched in Naples in 2016 and is ongoing....
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Reproduction, Sexualities and Sexual Health Research at The Open University
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reproduction, Sexualities and Sexual Health Research at The Open University

...social, and political dimensions of reproduction, sexuality, and sexual health...The Reproduction, Sexualities and Sexual Health research group at The Open University leads interdisciplinary research in reproductive choices, HIV/AIDS, sexuality & disability, the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender (LGBT+) people and pregnancy & childbirth. This page brings...
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