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Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish one from the other. Watch the following video, where OU academic Caroline Clarke addresses the issue of narcissism in relation to leadership. CAROLINE CLARKE: The word leadership has become a bit of a catch-all. It can mean everything and nothing. And we like to invest in individuals as being heroic. So if you think about some...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...become central to the critical enterprise. To this end, notions of a ‘supranational criminology’ (Smeulers and Haveman, 2008) have been developed. This area of critical criminology is concerned with the study of international crimes, harms, and violations that have an impact on a mass or global scale – for example, war crimes, torture, genocide, crimes against...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...becoming less prone to the evolving software demands – thereby, extending their usable lifetimes. How much carbon in the cloud?We can begin to understand the carbon impact of data centres by analysing their energy use. Cloud technologies live in data centres, and data centres are estimated to account for 1% to 1.5% of global energy consumption. The data transmission...
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Article 5 mins
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...students sat at the back behind a black curtain… The thought of my grandmother in a burqa is foreign to me. No one in our family now ever covers their heads or faces. When I asked my grandmother why, she replied, ‘We did so you wouldn’t have to.’ My great-grandfather, she explained, had not supported the cloistering of women, which in South Asia is called purdah...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...student accommodation in association with a private company who have built the student facilities. Other areas of the suburb are still ‘work-in-progress’. Next to the new block of flats is an area of cleared land which is awaiting new house building, where children have started to gather to play football and socialise. On the border of the wasteland is an uninhabited...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence
Health, Sports & Psychology

A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence

...becomes disturbed by the reappearance of the man who once regarded him as his protégé. [Chessboard] The book traces Luzhin’s mental breakdown. This fascinating character was based on the author’s friend, a German Count named Curt von Bardeleben. He was a chess master, who committed suicide in 1924 by jumping out of a window. Prospective readers should note that the...
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Article 5 mins
Structural Integrity: Materials Testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Structural Integrity: Materials Testing

...become crucial in engineering design. Concepts within stress analysis have wide applicability, as there are very few manufactured components and products that do not experience any loading during their life. The tracks on this album demonstrate a selection of specialised tests designed to tell us about the behaviour of materials under certain conditions. They also show...
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Audio 41 mins
Norma Waterson: English Folk Singing
History & The Arts

Norma Waterson: English Folk Singing

...Becoming a folk singer Norma Waterson remembers her childhood and reveals how she became a traditional English folk singer. Telling a Story Stories as the foundations of traditional folk music. Tradition and History How traditional songs relate to other musical movements. Differences in gender within the music. Rituals and Ceremonies The meanings behind the songs, where...
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Audio 39 mins