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Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...Project Benny Peiser interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer BP: = Dr Benny Peiser, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, participant RH: Dr Peiser, thank you very much for agreeing to be interviewed by us for the BBC documentaries and the Open University. Can I start with the first question that we’re asking all of our interviewees, which is when did you first...
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...project, James was working closer to home, series producing Springwatch for BBC TWO. Transcript Earth in Vision Project My name is James Smith, I’m the series producer of the Watches, so that includes Springwatch, Autumnwatch, Winterwatch, at the BBC’s Natural History Unit. How I got started I loved geography, that was my favourite lesson at school and I loved...
Advancing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our start-of-course survey. Once...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation
Society, Politics & Law

Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation

...introduction in 1998-1999. Importantly these include additional welfare and tax related provisions. These are of course controversial areas, as is the wider discussion of poverty and inequality. We are reminded by this that devolution is a process and that there are tools available to Scotland now that can be utilised in the fight against poverty. It remains to be seen if...
15 facts about number 15
Education & Development

15 facts about number 15

...Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online. The course will help you to understand online security and start to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. You will learn how to recognise the threats that could harm you online and the steps you can take to reduce the chances that they will happen to you. 3: Andy Warhol once said “In the future, everybody...
Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...Introduction [Colourful direction sign with different subjects on] In 1959, C.P.Snow gave a lecture on which he later expounded in publication and which became a seminal work, still discussed and debated fifty years later. Snow’s thesis concerned the ‘gulf of mutual incomprehension ’ (Snow, 1965) between those who followed the sciences and those who saw the arts and...
Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics
Society, Politics & Law

Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics

...in an international context In addition, the interdisciplnary Social Sciences module provides an introduction to social science thinking and research. This article originally included a YouTube video filmed at Climate Camp which has since been removed from the internet; we've removed the link and replaced it with a link to the Flickr collection of images from the event....
Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions
Society, Politics & Law

Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions

...introduction of conscription in 1916 leading to over 100,000 men in Scotland leaving to fight in the First World War, women had to step in to fill the jobs that men had left. Many of these jobs were on the railway and it had never been imagined that women would be able to do this type of work previously. Society was very different and, if women did work, it would...