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A Victorian Christmas: Christmas Day In The Workhouse
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas Day In The Workhouse

...children, similar food, without limitation, and in the evening oranges, apples and sweetmeats. To the out-door poor, amounting to 3,279, an additional allowance of bread. Kingston Union - No reply to application made, but ascertained that the board of guardians have altered Christmas Day from a soup to a meat day, and have raised a subscription for plum-pudding, porter &...
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Enduring Love
Society, Politics & Law

Enduring Love

...Children Couples reflect on how children affect their relationships. Love and Intimacy Couples talk about sex and affection and how they show their love for each other. Relationship Work Couples discuss managing arguments and how they make their relationships work. Perceptions of Love Couples describe whether religion or faith has a place in their enduring love...
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Neurodivergence and the menopause: a personal journey
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodivergence and the menopause: a personal journey

...children’s services requiring many computer systems, each with encryption and multiple passwords. I was also in a large and very noisy open-plan office where interruptions and noise overload were highly impactful in a negative way. It was very challenging. It should not have to be this way. [Tired woman rubbing her eyes at work] Changes in our hormones affect many...
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Child of Our Time: Activities
Education & Development

Child of Our Time: Activities

...made for previous Child of Our Time series...Over the years we've produced many activities that that relate to child and youth development. Some require you to download and print a PDF, while others you can attempt online or with pen and paper. We've collected them below so you can try them out. You can also get the latest on the children with Child of Our Time 2013....
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MAED (Applied Linguistics) at the OU
Languages

MAED (Applied Linguistics) at the OU

...researching an educational context?...The MAED (Applied Linguistics) qualification at the OU is a three module qualification which explores these and other issues. [A still from a YouTube video promoting EE817] Find out more about the module options Applied linguistics and English language (EE817) Linking knowledge about the English language, how it is used, and the...
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Sex and the Natsal surveys – how do you compare?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sex and the Natsal surveys – how do you compare?

...research enrichment public engagement grant from the Wellcome Trust, we are developing several Open Educational Resources (OERs). Specifically OERs derived from the National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal)...Find out more about The Open University’s statistics qualifications. Transcript The first is an animation - “5 facts you didn’t know about...
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The Quilt of Excellence: how to support older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Quilt of Excellence: how to support older people with learning disabilities and their families

...research, explores the three key elements to providing excellent care to older people with learning disabilities. [Quilt of excellence - Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities (Free course)] Transcript You can see from the Quilt of Excellence animation that really good support for people with learning disabilities and their carers depends on...
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Future Technologies: Designing with vision
Science, Maths & Technology

Future Technologies: Designing with vision

...research, a collaboration between the OU and the University of Leeds is aimed at stimulating and generating ideas for designers, the result could have a global effect on the industries of the future... Future Design Tools This video reveals research into some of the very latest design tools. It shows how eye tracking technology can be combined with shape generation...
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