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Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...managed for another year, but the community became disheartened. We found ourselves in competition with other cultural events in Cardiff, that had much more funding, and often overlooked the black artists and performers right on their doorstep. In the end, Carnival just stopped happening. ‘To paint a more positive picture.’ However, six years ago, we decided it needed...
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...Introduction - This course introduces key terms that are essential for understanding the Classical Roman world. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Arts and Humanities...The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the terminology associated with the culture,...
Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story
Society, Politics & Law

Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story

...managed without her, extended family and friends but almost 16 years later, I’m still here. Do you feel you were treated the same as the males on your course? I was sometimes asked three questions for everyone else’s one, but that was more to do with building my confidence than being female. The training itself is full on so it did take some time to find my voice, but...
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...Introduction - This course introduces you to the concepts of: open educational resources (OERs) issues involved in the creation, use and re-use, and pedagogy of OERs a range of tools and media to support you in developing your own teaching and learning practices. It will provide you with the skills and confidence to engage in further OER work as both creator and user....
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...introduction to the process of new drug discovery; from identification of a suitable candidate drug molecule to the development of a commercial drug product available in the clinic for pain relief or as an anti-inflammatory...Drug development process: combating pain, is a free course offering a brief introduction to the process of new drug discovery; from identification...
Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...introduction to the life and works of Sigmund Freud...[Image of Sigmund Freud] Theories don’t emerge from a vacuum. To understand Freud’s ideas it is useful to get some sense of his life. He was born in 1856 and spent most of his life in Vienna; only moving to London in the last year of his life to escape the hostility of the Nazis. While there is every evidence (for...
Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
Languages

Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures

...project. It shows that women don’t just have fewer, they also have much smaller streets named in their honour. 1. Friedrich Zawrel (1929-2015) Friedrich Zawrel never completed formal education. He was picked out during the Nazi regime as one of the “socially undesirable children” and entered into the Nazi euthanasia programme. He was confined to a psychiatric...
Abortion stigma and the workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Abortion stigma and the workplace

...project is one of the few studies that explore the experiences of people in paid employment in the UK who have had an abortion in the first six months of pregnancy, as well as those who have had other forms of pregnancy endings like a miscarriage or molar pregnancy (where the fertilised egg does not develop properly). We ran a survey during 2022, attracting 226...