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Being Sustainable(ish)
Nature & Environment

Being Sustainable(ish)

...manageable in their lives to help the environment. Jen's inspiring session is all about ‘progress not perfection’ – the idea being that a lot of people making a manageable change and doing them well, has greater impact than a few people doing them perfectly. Jen's own words: 'We're often short on time, energy, and sometimes sanity, and to top it off eco-anxiety is...
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Video 40 mins
Sustainability
Education & Development

Sustainability

...Manager...I work as a Senior Manager in the Access, Open and Cross-curricular Innovation team. The reason why I really like YXM130 is the flexibility, allowing you to study what interests you from a wide range of subject areas. I have always been a keen environmentalist and been fortunate to support and work alongside the OU academics who author the Environment...
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Article 5 mins
What does an engineer look like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does an engineer look like?

...Projects. Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama but considers Chicago, Illinois her hometown. She received a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering (and completed the requirements for a Bachelor degree in African and Afro-American studies) at Stanford University in 1977, and a Doctorate degree in...
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Article 5 mins
Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...project. The inspiration and influence of the early suffrage banners are captured in 100 modern re-workings and responses. You can watch a film about the project, ‘Satin, Silk and Suffrage’. Let's close with a reminder of what Lowndes called ‘the new thing’, meaning that colour had a ‘fresh significance’ in 1909. The new thing was ‘political societies...
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Video 5 mins
A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
OpenLearn Ireland

A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...management, working with not-for-profit organisations, fund raising and music media. Since 2008, she has worked at Oh Yeah, rising to the position of Creative Development Director. Aside from her many accomplishments in this role, she was the co-founder of Love Music Hate Racism Northern Ireland and initiated the ground-breaking Women’s Work festival that featured in a...
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Article 5 mins
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...Introduction - This short course is a taster of the Open University Level 2 module, Economics in Practice. It will introduce you to some of the practical ways that the theories, tools and techniques of economics are used and impact on our everyday lives. You will look at the issue of flooding, a problem with a long history but becoming increasingly important globally...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...Introduction - Research completed by Donne Women in Music in 2024 found that 92.5 per cent of orchestral repertoire performed worldwide in the 2023/24 concert season was written by men, while music written by women made up just 7.5 per cent. (Donne Women in Music’s research was based on an examination of the repertoire presented by 111 orchestras based across 30...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...managing human interventions associated with socio-economic and environmental development. So what is systems thinking? Why might systems approaches provide better support for strategic planning? Moreover, how might such approaches support systemic success? This free course, Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP), is divided into two parts – Part 1...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs