2,084 search results
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...Research, 2016). Yet religion retains immense cultural influence, and the absolute numbers of religiously motivated people remain significant enough to require consideration in local and national policy decisions. A variety of religiously committed people are also regularly encountered on high streets and neighbourhoods throughout Britain. The figure below compares how...
View course Religious diversity: rethinking religion
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...Research Group here. My first degree was in mechanical engineering at Bristol University. I then took a masters degree, by research and study, in the physics of materials. And after that I was frustrated, I think, with academic work. I did plan a PhD at that time but instead decided to work for industry, and I joined a civil engineering company – some consultants called...
View course Personal development planning for engineering
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...research functions too so that we're trying to establish best practice through our own investigations and then passing that onto people through all means of communication, from written pamphlets through to social media. Years ago, our first priority was persuading government that there was a need for any legislation at all. And it wasn't until 1945 that government woke up...
View course Introducing the voluntary sector
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...research. Children's health is not as good as it could be or as good as they deserve. They have a right to good health. And it is up to the adults in their lives to do what they can to promote good health for children. This course brings together contemporary research and current knowledge about children’s health, and it is aimed at parents, professionals and educators....
View course Physical and mental health for young children
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...research, the findings of which can become enshrined in good practice guidance or legislation. It is important to recognise this when studying the law that frames social work practice. In June 2010, Professor Eileen Munro conducted an independent review of the child protection system in England. In the final report of her review, A Child Centred System (Munro, 2011), she...
View course Applying social work law with children and families
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...research Timing: Allow about 60 minutes Now read the following article and reconsider your reflections. Leadership: Current Theories, Research, and Future Directions The next section will build on what you have learned about the individual leader and compare it to leadership as a collective process...Collective leadership: 2 Individual leadership versus collective...
View course Collective leadership
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...research on the progress of vaccination programmes. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Science...Vaccination: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define and use, or recognise definitions and applications of, each of the terms in bold in the course use examples from the history of vaccination to illustrate the...
View course Vaccination
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...research has shown there is no single element than can be used to pigeonhole the world into two neat biological categories: male/female. This binary is an easy fiction that obscures the more complicated details of real life. Yet, the IOC insists on its fiction of the neat binary. The policy states that only females who register below a defined testosterone threshold are...
View article Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Article 5 mins