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Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond
Health, Sports & Psychology

Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond

...OU. Race, Covid and Me https://youtu.be/FdaGz5uFfRQ The Impact of Covid in Wales: A reflection on Inequity and Solidarity Rocio Cifuentes (2020) All in it together? The impact of Coronavirus on BAME people in Wales Conduct a rapid review and change of death certification to include a field for ethnicity (2020) Chief Medical Officer for Wales: Special Report (2020) -...
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Video 20 mins
Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...OU historians. ...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Suzanne Forbes]I’m not sure there was a single turning point or experience that got me interested in history. I enjoyed history at school, but what really kept me interested in the subject was the process of...
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PY Gerbeau on the business of football
Money & Business

PY Gerbeau on the business of football

...become a monopoly supplier. If it did, then there would be no-one left for the team to play! It's a cross between business and warfare. Stefan Szymanski, from Imperial College Management School: "Football lies somewhere between economics and warfare. In warfare, there can only be one winner. My success necessarily means your failure – and that's true of winning the...
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Article 15 mins
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...becomes positively charged and the other becomes negatively charged. This causes the electrons, which are free to move, to travel through the wire towards the positive terminal of the battery, where they are removed. At the same time the negative terminal supplies more electrons to the wire. Within the battery there is a net flow of negative charge from the positive...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...OU offers...Psychology around the world: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe how cultural and societal factors shape some core psychological processes, namely how people think, remember and perceive the world describe some different cultural approaches to wellbeing understand how early life experiences impact infant development,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...become embedded in society, making certain transactions between people or organisations affecting other people – what economists call ‘externalities’. Sometimes these externalities are generally positive and good, but lead to the ‘free-rider’ problem. In other cases the effects can be negative and bad – and even the seemingly beneficial free ride can also...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...OU academics. While you are doing so you may wish to take some notes about why the use of language is important in mental health and what its use might suggest to those who have mental ill-health and how it is perceived and treated. Reading A The impact of language on mental health perspectives One aspect of the debate that surrounds mental health is how to refer to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Why pulling out of the EU won't give Britain complete control over its affairs
Society, Politics & Law

Why pulling out of the EU won't give Britain complete control over its affairs

...students out of the Erasmus study programme to cut access Swiss universities' access to EU research funding streams. The European Commission also announced it would review its relations with Switzerland. For obvious reasons, Brexit advocates have not explained any of these scenarios to British voters. All these undignified bits tend to be left out. But it really is time...
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