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Advancing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...learning from the Introducing Black leadership course. Transcript Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they’re a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of continuing professional...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?

...learn the ropes of Wikipedia editing if you need to – with experienced Wikipedians there to help. Wikipedia edit-a-thons are a lot of fun. Go if you get a chance! It’s Black History Month in the US, so there are some more edit-a-thons: you can see a list here. (There’s one at Howard University!) If you need to learn on your own, try the Wikipedia Adventure....
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Activity 5 mins
Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...learning from my GSRD readers. I’m currently starting work on a second edition of Rewriting the Rules and I’ll be conducting survey and focus group discussion research to find out what readers found useful - and less so - to inform how I edit the book. Finally, moving around to the bottom right, my self-help is also grounded in methods of personal reflection and...
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Article 5 mins
The fight for equal pay: Glasgow City Council, 2018
Society, Politics & Law

The fight for equal pay: Glasgow City Council, 2018

...learning assistants, schools and nurseries could not open. Without home carers, families had to step in to care for loved ones. The disruption this strike caused to lives in Glasgow did not lead to a backlash against the strikers, quite the opposite. The well-organised public campaigning of these women ensured they had the support of Glaswegians across the city. Before...
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Article 5 mins
The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it

...learn from near misses to be safer next time, and a degree of anxiety means we are alert for future danger and prepared where necessary. These approaches or responses were adaptive when the danger was ‘purely physical’, back in the times of the ‘cave man’. But nowadays, for those in high income countries, our lives are physically much safer and the ‘threats’...
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Article 10 mins
How can we improve teaching about Islam?
Education & Development

How can we improve teaching about Islam?

...learn that the two oldest continuously run universities in the world are in North Africa (in Fez – a city in Morocco – and Cairo). Indeed, it is not easy to disentangle contemporary politics from historical fact, to teach more fully the culture and diversity of a religion that is almost 2,000 years old. Perhaps educators could learn from a recent exhibition at the...
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Article 5 mins
Festival of Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Festival of Psychology

...Learn about excellent psychological research happening in Wales and beyond Understand the impact psychological research has many areas of everyday life Hear about the breath of areas in psychology and the diversity this field offers For anyone who is a psychology student, the presentations may also provide a chance to develop ideas for your own project or research study....
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Video 2 hrs
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain why the concept of criminalisation is valuable for understanding race–crime debates describe the problem of disproportionality in relation to the criminal justice system provide examples of some of the ways in which critical criminology has conceptually approached and researched ‘race’...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr