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The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world
Society, Politics & Law

The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world

...OU’s Centre for Policing Research and Learning and is currently Associate Dean and Director of STEM Research. Sarah is an Applied Psychologist at the People and Technology Group, School of Applied Psychology, UCC, and Lero, Science Foundation Ireland’s Research Centre for Software. Her work contributes to understandings of responsibility, justice and care across a...
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Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...become one of the most powerful institutional influences in society. This free course, Sporting women in the media, explores whether gendered inequalities exist in sport by evaluating the media coverage. The media can be highly influential in shaping perceptions about gender in sport and headlines indicative of differences in how male and female athletes are regarded in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...become stronger than perhaps they should. I was once at a conference with a very high up BBC person who told me how proud she was that she’d managed to persuade the controller at BBC 1 not to run environmental programmes because they were bad for the audience. Now, none of that strikes me as being particularly usefully academic. Separation of powers. I think part of it...
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10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...OU Business School's Janette Rutherford turned the tables on Evan way back in 2009 to ask what he'd learned about management from presenting The Bottom Line over the years? Watch Read Martin Bean: Lord Reith famously said that the BBC’s mission should be to educate, to inform and to entertain. In Evan Davis, the BBC has found someone who can do all three with remarkable...
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Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...student or an employee, it is the latter activity that is central to much systems work. But there is also a subsidiary reason I hinted at. Authors also use diagrams: to decorate and enhance the text to make it more pleasing to read...Systems diagramming: 3.4 Thinking through diagrams - One of the features that characterises complex situations is the interconnectedness of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?
Society, Politics & Law

Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?

...becomes part of the design process. In the aftermath of attacks, or amid fear of imminent attack, obtrusive security features – notably temporary concrete or steel blocks – are commonly “thrown” around key sites to stop vehicle attacks. These are not necessarily aesthetically pleasing. In the last decade the initial swathe of security bollards and defensive...
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This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

This is not a city: Milton Keynes

...become key nodes in globalised systems of economic production, the distribution of goods, and sites of the exploitation of workers, whose labour produces that wealth. Walking around many of the UK’s cities today can remind one of the wealth generated during the industrial age, with elegant Victorian buildings, statues and squares, although the labourers of this period...
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