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Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?

...becoming seriously ill with SARS-CoV-2 could be higher. How does chemotherapy impact a cancer patient's response to COVID-19? Many chemotherapeutic agents work by slowing the growth of rapidly dividing cancer cells. Chemotherapy is used to treat cancer (both cure or prevent recurrence) and ease cancer symptoms (used to shrink tumours that might be causing pain). However,...
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Article 15 mins
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...become the book Mothering at the Margins: Black Mothers Raising Autistic Children in the UK began on WhatsApp. As my academic colleague Claire and I shared yet another voice note conversation that had me nodding in recognition and the typed response of ‘same’ pinging through each of our phones, we began to realise something profound. This was knowledge. In our book, I...
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Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...become aware that you are interacting with a member of a different community whose ways of thinking are quite distinct from your own. These experiences often occur when you go abroad, but they can take place in any society that has many different cultural groups, such as the UK, for example. During an intercultural encounter, you become aware that you and the other person...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...OU students. It is also the way the Open University's residential course, called TXR248 Experiencing Systems, starts. There are many ways to refine, develop and add to your skills, and you will have the opportunity to do this as the unit progresses...Managing complexity: a systems approach – introduction: 5.4 Methodology, method, technique, and tools - As you engage...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...students, psychologists and psychiatrists. He asked them to speculate on how far they thought most people would go if asked to administer shocks. Most ordinary people said that participants would generally refuse to administer shock, or at least not go very far beyond the point where the ‘learner’ experienced pain. Also, most said that participants should rebel, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Five things to know about being disabled and LGBTQ
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things to know about being disabled and LGBTQ

...becomes quite a statement – not only do you have desires, but they’re different from those of the people around you. In practice, there’s no contradiction between being disabled and being LGBTQ, and there’s lots of us out there. Here are five things for you to know: 1: Disabled people don’t just have sex, we have sexualities [disability pride yellow banner]...
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Article 10 mins
Porter’s Value Chain and the Business of Film
Money & Business

Porter’s Value Chain and the Business of Film

...becomes whether it is possible to focus on the areas of greatest profit potential. You need to be careful with this. It is one thing to identify such potential but it is quite another to be successful given the strategic capabilities the organisation has. Make or buy? The make or buy decision for part of the process is therefore crucial. This is an outsourcing decision....
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Article 5 mins
The psychological benefits of multilingualism
Languages

The psychological benefits of multilingualism

...become more emotionally resilient in the face of difficulties. Indeed, multilingualism has been linked to foreign language enjoyment, and this heightened enjoyment has been shown to decrease anxiety and other negative emotions (MacIntyre and Dewaele 2014). Emotional competencies, such as empathy or emotional intelligence, also increase as a consequence of multilingual...
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