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Silent Invisible Women: Deaf and Muslim in Australia
History & The Arts

Silent Invisible Women: Deaf and Muslim in Australia

...Social Researcher. Last year, as a requirement of my Social Research and Policy Degree at the University of New South Wales, I devoted my honours research to this topic. My thesis explored the identities and lived experiences of Australian Lebanese-Muslim women with hearing impairment and investigated if they perceive their hearing loss as a ‘blessing’ or a...
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Video 5 mins
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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Audio 1 hr 29 mins
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

The following learning is from the Geography strand in The Open University level 1 module D113 ‘Global challenges: social science in action’..._Find out more about The Open University's Geography courses and qualifications. _ This is an invitation to: watch a series of six videos from countries across the Global South as part of the International virtual field trip...
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Article 5 hrs
FGM law and ethics in the UK and Ireland
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM law and ethics in the UK and Ireland

...social care professionals. International Conventions FGM is prohibited under several key international human rights conventions, including: The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (1981) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) (1990) The Istanbul Convention (2014) FGM violates...
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Article 5 mins
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...social good, as well as business profit. And what do I do for work these days? Well launching the first development impact bond in the world, where the returns for the investor go up, not with the interbank lending rate, but actually go up when more girls get educated and enrolled into schools in Rajasthan. Looking at private sector approaches to reducing deforestation to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...worked with women living in a social housing estate (‘a project’) in Chicago, US. In this estate, residents were housed in tower blocks, pictured below. Some of the blocks had no trees surrounding them (pictured on the left) and some blocks were surrounded by trees (pictured on the right). This provided a comparison between women whose everyday views from their home...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Public health communication during a pandemic
Languages

Public health communication during a pandemic

...social media messaging, billboards, letters, postcards, and phone calls to ensure everyone is included in the communications. A key part in this process of dissemination is to ensure the message is accessible by different people and communities and that it is available in the multiple languages used in communities. Organisations like HealthWatch are vital in this process,...
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Article 10 mins
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...working people for every elderly person. Today: 9. 2050: 4. More money out, less money in. Economic impact: Growth, Savings, Debt, Investment, Consumption, Labor markets, Pensions, Taxation Social impact: Family composition, Living arrangements, Housing demand, Migration trends, Health care Political impact: Voting patterns, Political representation The elderly bring:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs