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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...open to me? What works in my favour at the moment? What resources do I have? What/who can help me? What is changing in my life and may open new options for me? What might cause me difficulties? What restrictions are there on me? What is changing in my life and may close options for me? Where are there gaps in my resources or sources of help? Be honest about your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...Open University’s Department of Geography where I currently work as a Research Associate. I’m going to examine how conflict in the Middle East risked disrupting research into the future security of the world’s food supplies, and find out how a revolutionary project on the remote island of Spitsbergen acted to keep that research going. This case captures, for me,...
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Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora
OpenLearn Ireland

Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora

...Open University. https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/national-identity-britain-and-ireland-17801840/content-section-2 Diner, H. (1984) Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. Donnelly, J.S., (2002) The Great Irish Potato Famine, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Ltd....
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Article 5 mins
Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...resources from our experts about the brain, from articles to free courses. Spend a few minutes thinking about what your brain does You could have come up with many different things. For example, the brain controls our movements and our basically bodily functions such as hunger and thirst. It also allows us to interact with the world around us by interpreting information...
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Article 1 hr
Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way?

...opening game, they defeated Malawi 62-36. The following day, despite playing better as a team, and being neck and neck with them at the end of every quarter, South Africa just clinched the victory at the end winning by 2 points 59-61. Paige Reed of the Roses battles with Martha Dambo of Malawi, 1 February 2025 The fast-paced invasion sporting competition is being aired...
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Article 5 mins
Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
Languages

Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics

...Open and I've searched the whole BAWE corpus: [Screengrab showing instances of the word 'we' in the British Academic Written English corpus as returned by SketchEngine] Click on the image to see a larger version From this screenshot, we can see that BAWE contains 15,718 instances of 'we' (or 1,885 per million words). A similar search for 'I' reveals that there are 13,069...
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Article 10 mins
World Mental Health Day on OpenLearn
Health, Sports & Psychology

World Mental Health Day on OpenLearn

...anxiety, depression, mindfulness, wellbeing and more with our FREE learning resources...The theme for World Mental Health Day 2025 is "access to services - mental health in catastrophes and emergencies". The theme highlights the importance of people being able to protect their mental health whatever they're going through, because everyone deserves good mental health....
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Article 15 mins
Academic Skills - Key words in essay titles
Education & Development

Academic Skills - Key words in essay titles

...examines the subject thoroughly and considers it from a variety of viewpoints. State Requires an answer that expresses the relevant points briefly and clearly without lengthy discussion or minor details. [Wrexham University logo ] This resource was provided by Wrexham University and is part of the University Ready hub. Find more resources like this on the hub homepage....
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Activity 5 mins