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How to provide a trauma-informed police response to victims of rape and serious sexual offences
Society, Politics & Law

How to provide a trauma-informed police response to victims of rape and serious sexual offences

...Resourcing issues, compounded by officer inexperience or a lack of upskilling, can impact on the victim’s experience of receiving a trauma-informed (TI) response. This article will consider the issues facing FROs as the first point of police contact, whether the training package they receive to deal with sensitive cases involving RASSO is sufficient and appropriate and...
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Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year

...resources on China and Chinese. In addition to those free resources, you may also wish to have look at our short course in Chinese business culture, which you can start at any time of the year. If you’d like to find out about the latest news, public talks and courses relating to Chinese language and culture at The Open University, please visit the Online Confucius...
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The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators
Nature & Environment

The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators

...resources a small spider can achieve a predatory strategy that rivals that of a large mammal. Predators under threat The Hunt makes one acutely aware that many of the animals featured and many others on Earth are under threat because of conflict with humans. The final programme in the series addresses some of the conservation initiatives around the world that recognise...
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The ISIS winter: The environmental impact of Middle East conflict
Nature & Environment

The ISIS winter: The environmental impact of Middle East conflict

...Human genes are also affected due to the use of chemical weapons and the burning of oil wells and military remnants. The gene mutations will result in having more birth defects.” It added that low-income families and chronic disease patients have been affected the most, as health problems also mean more economic burdens. There were reports of suffocations, respiratory...
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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

...humanities: Traditions, Milton Keynes, The Open University. Kenny, K. (2000) The American Irish: A History, Edinburgh, Pearson. Kibler, A. (2015), Censoring Racial Ridicule: Irish, Jewish and African American struggles over race and representation, 1890-1930, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Kibler, A., ‘The Stage Irishwoman’, Journal of American...
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Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...resource plans should not be created without an understanding of the demand for resource, but you will find that demand is not always measured, or collated in a way that is not helpful to decision-making. This course provides a range of perspectives of how data can be understood, in the context of managing capacity and demand. After completing this course, you will be...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...human body. Measuring people is far from simple. Measure the length of your forearm. This is the distance between your elbow and your wrist. This is far from simple. You’d maybe like to measure the length between the axis around which your elbow hinges then a similar axis for your wrist, or simply from the back of your elbow with a bent arm to a bone in your wrist. But,...
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Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...human rights and the rule of law in Europe. CoE enforces the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) through the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). It also works with the EU bodies such as the EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship and the European Court of Human Rights. The ECI may prove, in time, to be a stimulus for active democratic...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs