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Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...community...Challenging ideas in mental health: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the complexity and dilemmas of diverse perspectives in the field of mental health and distress understand the importance of service users/‘survivors’ experiences and perspectives understand how mental health issues can affect everyone...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...Communicating via email and online meeting platforms, creating documents, presentations and spreadsheets, understanding file and data management, and an awareness of online security are some of the key skills. This free course is part of the Supporting hybrid working and digital transformation collection which focuses on hybrid working – where workers spend some of...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...community centres, national water conservation education and has also improved general health (the lack of water or use of polluted water can generate ‘water-related diseases’). The WWP therefore actively addresses the impoverishment of black South Africans, which is a serious issue. 14 million South Africans currently have no or inadequate water supplies. In 1997,...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
What is the Minamata Convention on Mercury and what does it mean?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the Minamata Convention on Mercury and what does it mean?

...communities of countries such as Brazil and China. The Convention takes its name from the world’s worst mercury poisoning incident, which affected thousands of people who ate contaminated fish in Minamata Bay, Japan, in 1956. Its provisions include banning new mercury mines, phasing out existing ones, and regulating the use of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold...
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Article 5 mins
Five things to know about being disabled and LGBTQ
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things to know about being disabled and LGBTQ

...communicate yourself to other people, then that’s brilliant – but if that label no longer fits, don’t feel trapped in it. Labels work as a kind of social shorthand, but they shouldn’t become a prison. If one set of words don’t fit, you’ll find others that do. 5: You can be disabled and trans [transgender pride flag] There are lots of disabled trans people out...
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Article 10 mins
Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia

...communities. In recognition of her contributions, she received a number of national and international accolades, including National Green Awards (2007), Gothenburg Award (2011, shared with former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan) and One World Lifetime Achievement Award (shared with her husband Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebregziabher, 2017). Sue passed away in Addis Ababa, on 14...
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Article 15 hrs 45 mins
Life Beyond Earth: The Big Debate
Science, Maths & Technology

Life Beyond Earth: The Big Debate

...research and aims to make academics’ work inspiring and accessible to communities in Wales. This supports institutional aims to make education open to all and supports wider OU work to build an informed, engaged and prosperous Wales. To keep up to date on our upcoming OpenTalks events, you can sign up to our newsletter or follow us on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn....
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Video 1 hr
Business Bursts: Branding
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Branding

...communicate anything more than at brand values, or its image it’s presenting. Dr Terry O’Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in Management A product if you like is, if you could imagine such a thing, is just a sort of a basic functional thing that you buy to do something. So it might be a pair of shoes because you need to go for a walk, or it might be a car because you need to...
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Video 5 mins