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...work content is there to support your development, and because it's created by The Open University (sometimes in partnership with other employers), you can include it on your CV with confidence. OpenLearn digital badges Digital badges which you have earned for successful completion of Badged Open Courses on OpenLearn are listed in your OpenLearn profile, and also on your...
Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...work of Andrew Lattas – that the radio masts could be understood as evidence not of irrationality but of bricolage and creativity, whereby local ritual technologies for communicating with the dead were blended together with Western communication technologies. Once posed in this way, the question about action became one of agency and power rather than one of rationality....
Improving the everyday lives of carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving the everyday lives of carers

...Social Care courses and qualifications. [Image of a young carer and an older person talking] Over a 100 million people in Europe care for a family member or friend. Many of them are caring for an older person and indeed many are older people themselves - caring for a spouse, sibling or parent who has reached great age. As the populations in Europe increasingly age,...
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...work and social functioning. The purpose of the study is to gather evidence for the clinical benefits and cost effectiveness of the Alpha-Stim AID when used in an NHS setting − how well does it work, and does its use result in cost savings for the NHS. The study may show that the Alpha-Stim AID should be available on the NHS for patients with suspected GAD.' The...
Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...working on the railways in 1977. In this interview by Angela MacGregor, she speaks about her time as a union rep...Find out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Introducing Nan Zaimaitas by Angela MacGregor I first met Nan at the start of my own career in the Scottish Railways. You would be forgiven for overlooking this unassuming woman as...
This Sporting Planet
Society, Politics & Law

This Sporting Planet

...social meanings. Sport and Change Sue Tibballs chief Executive of the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) focuses on the role of women in sport and their representation. The WSF ensures that women are central to sport and not on the sidelines. Running for a Business Ed Warner is a city businessman who became part-time, non-executive chair of UK Athletics in 2007 and has had...
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Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...worked in every part of television since John Logie Baird invented it. I starting as a reporter on the local news in Bristol and ending as Editor of Nature, the environmental strand based in the BBC’s Natural History Unit. We were trying to tell environmental stories and warn of climate change long before the E word became fashionable. I’m not sure we changed anything...
Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...social and political infrastructure. Rhetoric attacked legitimacy Although this election does not appear to be “hacked” in the manner that many predicted, I do believe that it was successfully and directly attacked, repeatedly. These attacks did not come in the form of hackers altering vote counts. Rather, the attacks on this election’s integrity came from assorted...