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Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...working out how much change you might receive, to how long a journey might take, to solving puzzles. You’re going to start by looking at some puzzles. You may be wondering what puzzles have to do with solving real problems. First of all, they introduce you to working logically and systematically, which is an important general technique that is used often in mathematics....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Department of the Commons
Society, Politics & Law

Department of the Commons

...working to recognise the legitimacy of occupied buildings in the city and organising public discussion tables in occupied buildings where citizens share decision-making power with the Administration. It was initiated by local government and encourages people to participate through voting, organising and campaigning and public assembly. Dept of the Commons is local in...
Methods in Motion: The magpie
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The magpie

...work finding a natural affinity with the strand of International Relations (IR) that drew upon social constructivism, and with it an attendant focus on how issues of culture and identity affect relations between states. For my own work, however, I wanted to delve deeper. I was not, and am still not really guided by the International Relations scholar’s desire for...
Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...work on England’s River Parrett in the 2014 floods.] Emergency pumps at work on the River Parrett in the 2014 floods. Researchers have just issued three separate climate warnings to the citizens of Europe on the same day, in three different journals – a triple risk salvo. One group warns that, if humans go on burning fossil fuels at an ever-increasing rate, heatwave...
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...working in policing and related fields can become more innovative...This free course, Innovation in policing, explores the concept of innovation from the perspective of police and policing. It considers the ways in which innovation can apply in policing and how those working in policing and related fields can become more innovative. This course was produced by The Open...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...work towards preventing such catastrophes. If, and when, they do occur a caring approach can also help to ensure that everyone learns from such events in order to avoid them happening again. This doesn’t just apply to health and social care settings though. Leadership in any context is enhanced by taking a caring approach towards the role and those for whom the leader...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity
History & The Arts

Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity

...working together to understand migration, participation, citizenship and Belonging...The 2019 ‘Who Are We?’ project took place for the third year at the Tate Modern and brought together academics and artists to explore migration, participation, citizenship and belonging through installations, symposia, and participatory workshops. Academics and artists explored living...
Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...working in entirely new ways with their media. I think that we hope that a whole range of people will find this material useful. Of course we, as scholars, have found it fantastically interesting, historians, geographers, environmental researchers as we are, but we’re also really confident that teachers and learners in schools and universities are going to draw on this...