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Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
History & The Arts

Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery

...worked in a range of jobs for less than £4 per week to save the £86 which paid my fare to join her in London in March 1955. I arrived by boat at a Liverpool dock and asked directions to Paddington Station where my mother was waiting. I did not recognise her. She recognised me and took me home to her attic room in Islington. The next morning, we had breakfast early and...
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20 years in Law: how technology changed legal practice
Society, Politics & Law

20 years in Law: how technology changed legal practice

...work remotely from home, a very radical departure from where we were 20 years ago. Being a lawyer in 2006 Change started in the early 2000s, when law firms began moving away from paper files and dictation to word processing, email and case management systems. Ironic, considering that in 1990 Professor Richard Susskind was accused of ‘bringing the profession into...
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OpenMinds-Talk: Virtual Worlds for real experiences
Digital & Computing

OpenMinds-Talk: Virtual Worlds for real experiences

...social computing. Professor Minocha will show how virtual worlds bridge time and places, interleaving the virtual with the real – allowing people to communicate and collaborate with those whom they may have never met, experience places they may never be able to visit, shop, learn, and do research. Professor Minocha will look at how virtual worlds provide ‘real’...
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Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism

...work together. That idea about change existed long before the Open University. But how was it transmitted? This banner, recently found in the village hall in Fringford, Oxfordshire, can be used to help us find out. This banner was made in the late nineteenth-century for a branch of a friendly society, a voluntary, mutual aid body. This one was called the Independent Order...
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Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...work in other countries. Legislation and social changes make it easier for organisations to develop and train their staff to appreciate ethnic and national differences in values, style, attitudes and performance standards. Nevertheless, there are countervailing tendencies, internally and externally. Developing openness and trust, for example, can often seem easier in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...work off the walls on that 200. The 50s, what we're going to do, we're going to go faster 15, 20, 25. My MS was around the theme of psychological resilience in elite swimming coaches. And I was fortunate enough to work with Mustafa Sarkar during collecting the data and developing the paper that we worked on together. Maybe after each set, just change your lane, so they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...social group significant for young people throughout their childhood and beyond. For young children the family is the foundation for their developing sense of belonging and self-identity. It also stands at the centre of their early learning. However the family is not a fixed entity. Families are made up of different ‘constellations’; they are infinitely varied, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...social context and/or background history to help explain the present day describe how the framing, arguments made and overall evaluation of a contemporary issue benefit from a critical approach to reading and viewing material...Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study: 1 Doping in the media - The first activity helps get you started by searching for recent doping...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs