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Badminton: Fitness and Training
Health, Sports & Psychology

Badminton: Fitness and Training

...Open University course E217 Sport and conditioning science into practice... Fitness Demands of Badminton What is required in order to train an athlete to a particular fitness level? This video looks at the physical demands of playing badminton. Resistance Training A look at the various types of weights exercises used to develop the specific muscles needed in badminton....
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Video 16 mins
Ecosystems: modelling the Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

Ecosystems: modelling the Earth

...model reflects reality, by comparing the model's predictions against real-world data. This material forms part of The Open University course S396 Ecosystems... Ecosystems: modelling the Earth A short introduction to this album. Using a model How models can be used to predict the Earth's climate patterns. The acid test The limitations of models; how to measure model error....
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Sport and exercise psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sport and exercise psychology

...Open University module E233 Sport and exercise psychology: a case study approach... Adherence: Getting people active and sticking to it This video examines the challenges of adhering to an exercise programme, focussing on the experiences of clients and trainers at a health club. Trainers’ experiences: improving adherence In this video two fitness trainers share their...
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Video 42 mins
Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...open-ended methods. Without such an approach, there was no chance of my knowledge becoming something that stood outside the preconceptions with which I began. This started a long fascination with how we produce ‘situated’ knowledge (Haraway, 1988) from particular perspectives (or standpoints, as feminists might say). Recognising this involves attending to the...
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Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues
Society, Politics & Law

Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues

...Open University environment researchers that have been working with a rare and precious resource. Our Earth in Vision project has allowed us to dive into an archive collection of a hundred environmental programmes from across fifty years of the BBC’s broadcasting about environmental issues. In this two part podcast I invite you to join me on my own journey through the...
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Methods in Motion: Inside Outsiders and Outside Insiders
Languages

Methods in Motion: Inside Outsiders and Outside Insiders

...opening lines often elicited immediate openness from interviewees (the refugee and migrant staff of migrant support and advocacy organisations). They formed an effective prelude to addressing a research puzzle about the positionality of refugees and migrants who work as front-line staff for migrant charities. To interpret these interview encounters, I had to abandon the...
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Article 5 mins
Try your hand at travel writing
History & The Arts

Try your hand at travel writing

...open window into the soul of a country and its people’. It wasn’t always easy, the trains were variable in terms of comfort, safety and reliability but it was always surprising. In her best-selling account of the journey, ‘Around the World in 80 Trains’ (2019) Rajesh describes a journey that takes her through the vast expanses of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan as...
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Gravity die casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Gravity die casting

...Open University's Science courses and qualifications [Image of die and cores (where applicable) sprayed with mould coat.] 1. Die and cores (where applicable) sprayed with mould coat. Mould heated using gas burners and die lubricant sprayed on. [Image of die parts assembled and clamped, and metal poured into runner.] 2. Die parts assembled and clamped, and metal poured...
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Article 5 mins