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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...introduction. St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin. Green, D., Grieve, J., French, J., Ignatieff, M., O’Brien, M. and Skidelsky,R. (2000) Institutional racism and the police: Fact or fiction? London: Institute for the Study of Civil Society. Lea, J. (2000) ‘Institutional racism in policing: The Macpherson report and its consequences’, in R. Matthews and J. Young (eds)...
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Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...introduction and development of mathematics, the social and natural sciences, literature, arts, culture and architectural infrastructure (Lane-Poole, 1886). In his literature The Story of the Moors in Spain, Lane-Poole (1886) clarifies the distinction of the Berber Moors originating from North Africa, which separates them from their Arab counterparts. [An illustration of...
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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...Introduction to Decolonial Computing’, XRDS, Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students – Cultures of Computing, 22(4), pp. 16–21. Ali, S.M. (2014) ‘Towards a Decolonial Computing’ in Buchanan, E.A., de Laat, P.B., Tavani, H.T. and Klucarich, J. (eds) Ambiguous Technologies: Philosophical issues, Practical Solutions, Human Nature: Proceedings of the Tenth...
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Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...introduction to changes in the heart function found in CLN3 disease, or juvenile dementia. ...CLN3 disease CLN3 disease (also known as Batten Disease) is frequently referred to as a juvenile dementia. This is due to the devastating series of neurological symptoms caused by this disease, which begins to show symptoms in childhood and progresses through the teenage years...
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Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...Introduction - One of the fundamental aspects of music is that it exists in time. Before the age of recorded sound, music notation was developed to try to capture the ephemeral and fleeting qualities of music. In this course you are not going to be looking at notation, but you will examine the organising and regulating function of musical time. You will consider the...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...Introduction - This course looks at the role of innovation in the development of industries and considers how production costs change as sales increase and as new technology is introduced into the production process. It looks at the relation between consumer demand for a good and that good's price, and at how the relation between output and production costs in different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...Introduction - What makes us who we are? This course will look at a number of different explanations that psychologists put forward in their attempts to understand why people feel, think and behave the way they do. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Psychology & Counselling This course is also available in Welsh on OpenLearn Cymru. Tell us what...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...manage climate change, far outweighed the costs of action and that was the conclusion. But it was a conclusion that certainly for me I came to as a result of the work. RH: There was some criticism by other academics at the time that you hadn’t submitted the review for any peer reviewed process, it was given to the media first and some people say, and I think there’s...
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