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Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 2: Beginning the process: Introduction - The second part of this OpenLearn course looks shorter than the first but it introduces a series of tasks that will be more time-consuming. In Session 1, you gained some understanding of the PhD study experience, you...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Environment: Lake Baikal
Nature & Environment

Environment: Lake Baikal

...resources be exploited to support economic development? In Siberia, Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and contains one fifth of the world’s freshwater. It has developed over 25 million years to be a truly unique eco-system - yet this lake is now an environment at serious risk. This album focuses on the growing environmental threats to the region, which was...
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Audio 28 mins
What is the EU? - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special
Society, Politics & Law

What is the EU? - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special

...opening video of the Student Hub Live Brexit special...After 60 years of widening and deepening into a union of 28 member states, the EU is about to lose the UK, despite offering several opt-outs and a special-status deal to keep it in. Brexit is viewed by some as the start of an unravelling, while others view the UK as unique in believing it can gain more sovereignty and...
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Video 45 mins
Issues in women’s football
Health, Sports & Psychology

Issues in women’s football

...Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. Women’s football, and women’s sport generally, has seen a huge surge in popularity and media coverage. In the three audios that follow, Steph Doehler from The Open University and Carrie Dunn (sports journalist and scholar) discuss various issues that this has brought. The history of women’s football...
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Article 5 mins
David Hume: 18th Century Philosopher
History & The Arts

David Hume: 18th Century Philosopher

...Open University’s Nigel Warburton is joined by A.C. Grayling and other philosophers to discuss Hume’s key theories around the self, induction and his argument against miracles. A good entry point into philosophy and the work of David Hume. This material forms part of The Open University course A222 Exploring philosophy... Hume: An introduction Nigel Warburton talks...
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Audio 42 mins
The Rainbow analysed
Science, Maths & Technology

The Rainbow analysed

...Open University course MU120 Open mathematics... The rainbow analysed introduction The rainbow analysed introduction Aristotle's theory In about 300BC Greek philosopher Aristotle proposed a theory to why the rainbow has such a specific shape. A full circle rainbow? Aristotle's model also tells us that if we are high enough we can see the full rainbow circle. This is often...
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Audio 23 mins
Enterprising Times
Money & Business

Enterprising Times

...Open University Business School suggests that innovative enterprises have performed best among Britain's five million small businesses throughout the economic downturn. Young entrepreneurs and students in the West Midlands are recorded attending their first ever business networking event. We also hear how business innovation is sprouting on the site of Europe's largest...
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Audio 18 mins
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...resource is part of the ‘Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection’ collated by The Open University in Wales. You can find out more and discover other courses, articles and interactives on the collection homepage...Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings: References - Auty, K.M., Cope, A. and Liebling, A. (2015) ‘A systematic review of meta-analysis of yoga...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs