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Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses
Nature & Environment

Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses

...emerge out of the experience of Dr Andrea Berardi, a Lecturer in Environmental Information Systems at The Open University. He is a co-investigator on Project COBRA. COBRA is researching ways to integrate community solutions within policies addressing escalating social, economic and environmental crises, through accessible information and communication technologies....
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History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...work of poetry published. Finally, her childhood reading reveals the paucity of previous women poets as role models. While 15 of the 50 books in the search results are by women, only one volume of poetry, her own long poem The Battle of Marathon (1820), is by a female author (UK RED: 16095). Her reading and response to Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Yes, we still need International Women's Day
Society, Politics & Law

Yes, we still need International Women's Day

...social media, linking protesters around the globe. [The Conversation] The protests, which spread from the initial Women’s March on Washington, spurred by the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, resulted in what was allegedly the largest day of protests in US history. That it was a triumph of activism for and by women is beyond doubt. But the fact...
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Even the homeless can have a 'home'
Society, Politics & Law

Even the homeless can have a 'home'

...social, political, reputational and cultural regeneration. These processes have picked up pace since 2003, when Liverpool was announced as the 2008 European Capital of Culture. This accolade proved to be the catalyst for a range of initiatives to “clean up” the city, ready for its big year. Like many other cities across the globe – New York, during its 1990s drive...
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Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit

...social divisions and disenchantments, but these were collapsed into simplifying binaries: hard or soft, in or out, authentic or false, with us or against us. Complexity and nuance – the stuff in trade of good social science research – has little place in such a world. How might researchers respond? Firstly, I think, we need to avoid using methods that categorise...
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Privacy in the Digital Age: Is it ‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ or ‘I’ve got nothing to hide’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privacy in the Digital Age: Is it ‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ or ‘I’ve got nothing to hide’?

...social networking and shopping sites). Personal data that is accrued by many internet search engines, shopping sites and social networking sites is then sold. In the case of most of these services, this is carried out with the consent of the individuals concerned – but there have been debates about the validity and extent of this consent. When we search our medical...
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Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...social construction of difference and power. The materials are primarily an audio file, originally 28 minutes in length and recorded in 1998. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...Children’s rights: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define the broad issue of children as citizens...Children’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...social world. Interpretivist (or ‘critical’, or ‘post-positivist’) research focuses on understanding social phenomena. Such questions ask how a certain understanding of the world, set of social relations or array of practices comes to be. Implicit here is the sense that other ways of understanding and arranging the social world are possible, and perhaps desirable,...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs