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Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...researchers at the University of Sheffield who, over the last few years, have been studying the uneven impact of how the cities of Manchester and Salford in the North West of England are being opened up to processes of financialisaton, understood as the transformation of housing from a public good into a commodity. Researchers Rich Goulding, Adam Leaver and Jon Silver...
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Article 5 mins
Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important

...Research shows that NAs have a significant and important part to play in healthcare teams but rarely is this widely noted (Thurgate & Griggs, 2023). It is our ethos at the Open University that everyone should be encouraging, empowering, enabling and ennobling the NA role to all stakeholders, including the public. [Nurse holding hands with a patient.] We believe it’s...
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Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...research. ...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Anna Plassart]I never intended to become a historian; my first degree was in economics. But I discovered that I was less interested in contemporary economic theory than in the history of economic thought. Eighteenth-century...
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Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...Research Group, 2010)...Understanding depression and anxiety: 1.1 What do we mean by stress? - We tend to think of ‘stress’ as a state of demand that is likely to stretch us to breaking point, and hence as a bad thing, to be avoided. An image of stress this brings to mind is pulling on a chain with increasing force: sooner or later the chain will break at the weakest...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...children showing what she thought was a lack of respect. ‘Siobhan’, she said, ‘Don’t you dare say “Black man”, you say “coloured gentleman”’. I took that on board fast – I didn’t fancy being slapped again. I told her that mummy had said that that was the polite way to speak. She pointed out that her skin was not ‘all colours like a rainbow’, but...
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Article 10 mins
Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?

...children we are excited by these super beings and dream of one day being like them. As adults, these super abilities stimulate our childhood fantasies and allow us to suspend reality for brief periods of time. Whilst many of us have our favourite superhero, and have an opinion on the best film, it has been widely recognised that every superhero falls into one of...
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Article 15 mins
Ageism and age discrimination
Society, Politics & Law

Ageism and age discrimination

...children's competition. The same sign is also used for disabled pedestrians. Many older people find this sign to be ageist. In 2020, the Centre for Ageing Better held a competition inviting designers to ‘rethink the symbols and icons commonly used in public to represent older age groups.’ The winning ‘dancing couple’ design was based on the UK traffic sign. [Image...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...centre of abolitionist thought. Placing people in prison to punish them for what they have done has been repeatedly proven NOT to work and, in fact, frequently stimulates rather than calms violence. If heightened public protection and reduction in violence and harm is what we hope to achieve – particularly for women, children and other vulnerable groups – then we...
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Article 12 mins