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Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...worked for over 25 years, apart from maternity leave, and I decided I needed to make myself the priority and joined a gym. I spoke to my manager who understood, being a working mother herself, she agreed I could change my hours to get some ‘me’ time in. I had worked out a routine whereby I could attend a gym when it was quiet and still carry on my other duties, but as...
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...work on international human rights treaties would reveal over fifty different treaties, conventions and protocols (instruments which effect an amendment to a treaty or convention). Box 1: The verdict on public international law As this course (and the other W100 courses available on OpenLearn: Europe and the law, Judges and the law, Making and using rules) examine rules,...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...work and can be thought of in a number of ways. It can be described as a learning tool, something that is going to help you to synthesise, explain, make sense of and ultimately develop meaning from, your experiences. It can be considered to be a professional competence, as reflected in the standards you are expected to achieve by the end of your Initial Teacher Education...
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...work that analytical concepts can do to make sense of complex environmental issues such as the issues of rights to land and food prices...‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?: 1 Analytical concepts used in this course - In this course you will touch on how three sets of analytical concepts – first, time and space; second, risk and uncertainty; and third, values,...
Charity begins at Homeland: The screen spies the CIA should love
Society, Politics & Law

Charity begins at Homeland: The screen spies the CIA should love

...work with Hollywood film and television producers, courted then distanced itself from Homeland. In September 2013, the show’s cast were given the red carpet treatment as guests of honour at the CIA’s Langley headquarters. Perhaps not coincidentally, the third season, which began to air the following week, offered the most sympathetic portrayal of the CIA in the series...
Is Obama's Iran legacy under threat?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Obama's Iran legacy under threat?

...working relationship between the lead negotiators, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif. Their evident personal chemistry was further enhanced by the connection between the number two negotiators, Ernest Moniz and Ali Akbar Salehi, who unbeknownst to each other had studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the...
How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

...work with Al Capone as our informant. We accessed more than 5,000 pages of historical documents such as investigator notes, legal documents, letters, and newspaper clippings from archives including the Chicago Crime Commission, the National Archives, the FBI, and the IRS. Dusty boxes and crumbling pages contained nuggets of information on Al Capone, his friends, and the...
The values of Bond: What 007 tells us about changing attitudes to sexual harassment
History & The Arts

The values of Bond: What 007 tells us about changing attitudes to sexual harassment

...work Ways of Seeing – and, indeed, early film scripts tend to display Moneypenny as the passive recipient of Bond’s attention, relegating her own desire, much like her desk, outside the centre of power. Similarly, in Ian Fleming’s novels, Moneypenny “functions as an object of desire, chiefly because she basks in the power that radiates from M”, as UK academics...