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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...work and lifestyle. Make sure you also set aside time for friends, social activities, hobbies and other personal interests – you do need time to unwind and re-energise. Focus on your goals. Focus on your immediate goals (a deadline, activity, assignment) and your longer term goals (the end of your course or your graduation), and consider where your studies are leading...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Social housing and working class heritage
History & The Arts

Social housing and working class heritage

...Social housing and working class heritage An introduction to this album. Social housing: winners and losers Iconic status or demolition? Social housing estates have had widely differing fates - which way will it go for the Carpenters' estate? Social housing: fighting for survival Shows campaigning by the Carpenters estate and the Excalibur estate to save their ......
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Audio 1 hr 30 mins
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...social scientific research. Although theory works at a whole series of levels, there are common characteristics which can be identified in the things we do, from the most abstract to the most ordinary everyday levels. For instance, when you awake every morning you engage in a complex series of tasks of varying levels of complexity, ranging from brushing your teeth to...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...social media work in Higher Education is designed to help you do this, it will help you reflect upon the decisions you make about how to use social media as part of your Higher Educational journey...Introduction and guidance: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the personal impact of social media and make informed choices...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...working through er of the idea of things being socially constructed and the fact that what we deal with in studying social policy in this way, is a field of social constructions, is important. In the same way I want to pick up one little phrase that Esther used, which is when she was talking about Book 1 she said, ‘and the case studies that are in Book 1’, and I think...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...Social marketing: 5.3 How communications work - The paper by Kotler and Zaltman (1971) emphasises the crucial fact that, for both commercial and social marketers, it is the combination of the ‘marketing mix’ elements (i.e. product, price, place and promotion) which will effect behavioural change. So what can we expect from communication and what objectives can be set...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Social Science
Society, Politics & Law

Social Science

...Social Sciences? One definition is that they are specialised systematic forms of knowledge, which leads the question: What is knowledge? Through discussions with powerful and responsible social scientists, the tracks on this album focus on the history of social science, how they are shaping the world as we know it, and the differences between scientific and religious...
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Audio 1 hr 24 mins
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...social change? In a series of lively interviews, Professor Gerard Hastings of the Institute of Social Marketing, faces questions from members of ISM-Open (the Institute of Social Marketing at The Open University Business School) on issues such as the ethics of social marketing, branding and advertising, and the morality of shocking or scaring people into changing their...
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Audio 1 hr 31 mins