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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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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
The delivery service to fix your brain
Science, Maths & Technology

The delivery service to fix your brain

...student Conor McQuaid explains one way in which scientists can target the delivery of drugs...Delivery/Targeting When you order a pizza, they need to know your address and have some way of getting to that exact place or else your neighbour could end up enjoying that cheesy goodness. We have the same issue with certain drugs, in that we need to get it to the right place...
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Article 10 mins
South Asian young adult carers: Balancing their caring roles and planning for the future
Health, Sports & Psychology

South Asian young adult carers: Balancing their caring roles and planning for the future

...students, regarding the support needs of South Asian and other young adult carers, the value of transition assessments and where to find support. Further resources will be added as the research progresses. We would like to thank Chandini Subramanyam-Paul and Sabbir Ali for their involvement in preparing the scripts and voicing the animations. Bilal Transcript Urdu audio...
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Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...student will study things like the National Health Service, how it’s developed, how it’s changed, how it operates. They will study education systems, the role of education for school children, and then how education is taken forward into later life, what they call these days lifelong learning, increasingly important to recognize that education isn’t just something...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...student who has adopted new languages and modes of expression and who has then, in my research, sought to analyse what it means to feel and be seen as ‘other’ in different contexts and codes, Bowie's strangeness has been a powerful artistic emblem. He has underlined how difference can be a haunting experience but also one of exuberance and liberation. Despite his...
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Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...Becoming a great scientist was Freud’s initial ambition but - for practical reasons - he eventually turned to what we would now call psychotherapy. He began by studying what others were doing in this field, working in Paris with Charcot who was using hypnosis to treat hysterical patients. Charcot’s clinic was a bit like a theatre, with patients being hypnotised in...
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