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Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) bias in social science research, systematically excluding the very people it is supposed to benefit. Ruzycki and Ahmed (2022) quote ‘Researched to Death’ – a synthesis of 11 studies examining violence against Indigenous women in Canada – which found that all asked similar questions and produced similar...
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The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world
Society, Politics & Law

The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world

...education technology. His research has earned him recognition including The Open University’s Research Excellence Award runner-up and a Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference. The final episode of this series explores misogynoir, which is a form of online hate targeting Black women. It discusses the meaning of the term and why it is necessary to...
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An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...education would be low. JEAN HARTLEY So thinking about how you lead in a complex issue like drugs for example. It's multi-faceted, lots of different angles on it. So as a police leader, you might want to be working with schools to do education around drugs. You might want to be working with parents. You probably want to be working with the Health Service over mental...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...Education Ltd. Shea, T. (2004) A Learning Experience to Treasure, A Treasured Experience to Learn. Northampton: Childcare Innovations Partnership. Welsh Government (2023) Framework for Early Childhood Play, Learning and Care. Available at:
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...educational outcomes, addressing long-standing challenges in medicine, science and engineering, and protecting political freedoms and promoting economic stability. On the other hand, there are as many – if not more – voices warning that these new technologies are already severely and negatively impacting almost every area of modern life, from increasing surveillance...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...education. [Described image] Figure 1 Louis Leopold Boilly, The Young Harpist, c.1804-06, oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Photo: Bridgeman Images Feminist musicology can be understood as part of a broader set of scholarly trends that arose within Western academic music studies during the 1980s, often referred to as New Musicology. Scholars began to...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...education, nutrition, capacity.) Greetings Requesting and giving information about people, meetings, services Thanking/acknowledging actions carried out Considering these questions helps to recognise what and how you write in your social work practice. The following sections explore this further, including types of writing and understanding in more detail the difference...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...education expenses such as books etc and so many children leave education. As a result the literacy rate in Bangladesh has traditionally been low, remaining below 50% in 2011 (Countryeconomy.com, 2019). However there is evidence that this has improved significantly over recent years. Unesco statistics suggest that the literacy rate has increased to more than 72% in 2016...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs