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Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...educators and activists are voicing the need to act (Consider the eminent Sir David Attenborough’s recent plea to world leaders and launching of the recent most prestigious Earthshot Environmental Prize). Solving our environmental challenges will require not only accurate scientific understanding of what environmental change entails, but also fully engaging in changing...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...technology, and community. You will encounter music from different times, places and genres while being introduced a range of scholarly perspectives on music...Introducing music research provides you with insights into the wide variety of possibilities for studying music at postgraduate level. In this free course you will explore diverse musical topics through four...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...technologies and media emails, instant messaging, letters Contracts/contractual information Documents that set out formal arrangements, often with sanctions if not adhered to contact agreements; contract monitoring form Case recording Ongoing logging of case activity, usually stored centrally on an authority-based IT system case notes; contact log; statutory visit record...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...educational qualifications than men and yet have much lower labour force participation (Berniell, Fernandez & Krutikova, 2024). Inequality is also evident in the UK where research indicates that people who attend private or fee-paying schools are more likely to secure a range of high-status and high-paying careers, such as law, politics, acting or sport (Sutton Trust,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Should Trump's tweets be a matter of record?
History & The Arts

Should Trump's tweets be a matter of record?

...technology The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 may be where Trump runs into trouble. The law, passed to modernize the PRA with respect to electronic records, provides that the president should not use an unofficial “electronic messaging account” for presidential records unless he or she copies or forwards a complete copy to an official account....
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Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...technologies, researchers at the Open University, and elsewhere, can now investigate the properties of more complex honeycomb designs, including designs based on aperiodic tilings. Most excitingly, honeycomb material based on the hat tile show zero sideways stretching when squeezed - a rare and useful trait shared with natural materials like cork. [A gif showing a square...
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Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...C., Manley‐Casimir, M., Grundy, A.L. and Fenton, N. (2005) ‘Living ethics: a narrative of collaboration and belonging in a research team’, Reflective Practice, 6(4), pp. 551–67. Travnicek, C., Stoll, D., Reichinger, A. and Rix, J. (2022) ‘It soon became clear – insights into technology and participation’, Qualitative Research Journal, 22(2), pp. 129–42....
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Article 15 mins
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...technology these radios and phonographs they became smaller and cheaper and they could either be purchased by teens or they could easily be purchased by their parents. And their ideal for being fit into the teen bedroom of course then you have the rise of televisions, computers, gaming consoles etc. Laurie Taylor: What is interesting about this stage we meet where you...
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