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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,...
Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences

...resources, with suggestions on how to read such materials critically and effectively. The material is primarily an audio file, 11 minutes in length and recorded in 1998. Participants in the audio programme were: John Clarke Professor of Social Policy at The Open University; Ross Ferguson Social Sciences lecturer at The Open University; Gordon Hughes Social Sciences...
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...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...human research ethics committee to support equity-based design and conduct. Alison Buckler illustrates her responses through examples from her experiences within the Ibali project, which has evolved into an international knowledge network, and the CHILD project in Zimbabwe (Power et al., 2021). At one point in the video Alison points colleagues to the work of Bukola...
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...human endeavour to innovate to improve lives. This is the focus of the next section which explores the evolution of innovation in health and social care in relation to prosthetics to improve the lives of amputees. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K102 Introducing health and social care...Innovation in health and social care:...
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...resources to sustain motivation adopt a growth mindset to approach challenges effectively...Building motivation and resilience in research: 1 Understanding resilience - Research and project work often feel like a marathon rather than a sprint. While moments of discovery can be exhilarating, the process is rarely straightforward. Experiments fail, papers get rejected,...
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...human history people have migrated from their place of birth for different reasons – for example, to seek new ways of surviving, to colonise new lands, to establish new markets for trade, or because they feared for their lives in their country of origin. Large movements of refugees around the world, as in the late twentieth century, are often linked to wider regional or...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...Human Right (ECtHR) in a way that includes a wider range of relationships than covered by statute (see K v United Kingdom [1986] 50 DR 199; 207 E Comm HR). Family life usually requires the existence of a close personal relationship, but it is not limited to relationships based only on blood, marital ties or recognised in law in some other way. The recognition by...