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How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?
Languages

How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?

...research on comprehension of this and other rights delivered to suspects shows that even native speakers of English do not always understand their rights. The problems are even greater for non-native speakers of English who may be able to conduct basic transactions but do not understand legal terms or complex sentences. [Santa being arrested] How can communication...
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Opening up history
History & The Arts

Opening up history

Delve into our Opening up history series: a collection of interviews with historians from The Open University. Read about their research ranging from the political culture in 18th century Ireland to anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications.
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Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...research shows...As a psychotherapist who is also a fat woman it did not previously occur to me how my size and that of my clients impacted on the work we did together. Size is hardly ever considered as an aspect of diversity, except in the size acceptance and fat activist communities. My perspective changed when I read ‘Health at Every Size’ by Linda Bacon and...
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How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?
Society, Politics & Law

How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?

...research into jury decision making that prohibit this. Research undertaken with mock juries has now shed some light on this issue. Mock jury research attempts to simulate a real criminal trial and asks members of the public to act as jurors. Our mock jury project – the Scottish Jury Research – involved 863 participants divided into 64 juries. They all watched a video...
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Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?

...research is so important to prevent long-term injuries...This content is associated with The Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. As we look forward to enjoying the action of the 2023 World Cup there is a growing awareness that there are significant differences in how women’s and men’s bodies respond in sport. In particular, after ACL...
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The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...research knows the graph. It plots the change in annual consumption of alcohol in the UK, calculated in litres of pure alcohol per person. (None of us drinks pure alcohol, thankfully; one litre of pure alcohol is equivalent to 35 pints of strong beer.) In 1950, Brits drank an average of 3.9 litres per person. Look to the right and at first the line barely rises. Then, in...
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How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...research on practice to go beyond the focus on individual police officer behaviour that is ‘aimed at training officers away from acting on racist or stereotypical beliefs to exploring ‘how some of policing’s institutional structures and practice contribute to racial discrimination’ (Epp, Maynard-Moody and Haider-Markel, 2017, p. 169). Furthermore, with the recent...
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Getting started with Italian 3
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Getting started with Italian 3

...research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than 50 years helping student achieve their learning ambitions. The short courses are underpinned by academic rigour and designed by native speakers experienced in producing engaging materials for online learning of languages and cultures. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs