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Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...researchers of the ENACT project. Rutvica Andrijasevic conducts the interview with Engin Isin, who in turn conducts the other interviews. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT): Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate a familiarity with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...research to find approximate values for the same set of ingredients as you used for your initial analysis. Don’t worry if you can’t find exact prices for all of the ingredients – you only need indicative values for the purpose of this activity. How does the costs of the meal compare across the two locations? Finally, determine the average monthly rent or mortgage...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...researching your career options, you may already have come across the word ‘internship’ several times, and it can be easy to assume that you must complete one otherwise employers will never be interested in you. Read on to find out why that is not the case...Week 1: What is an internship or work experience opportunity?: 1.1 What’s the difference between work...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...research by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) the pattern between 2009-2019 was of the cost of rail growing roughly twice as much as people’s earnings (TUC, 2019a). The TUC also showed in 2019 that the shareholders of rail companies in the UK were paid dividends of more than £1bn between 2013-2019, while passengers in the UK paid a far greater percentage of their monthly...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), 2019). During the rest of the twenty-first century, climate change and changes to land use practices are projected to make wildfires even more frequent and intense. It is predicted that global wildfires will increase by 14 percent by 2030, 30 per cent by 2050,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...research ‘trends for organisations’ online, you will see a consistent focus on: changing workforce and expectations authenticity, resilience, and purposeful business equality, diversity and inclusion flatter, more agile organisations sustainability, including climate change, net zero targets and global economic instability digital transformation, sometimes referred to...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...research on longitude timekeepers in the 1660s. Given such a strong sense of a collaborative environment, it is no wonder that Hooke and his colleagues believed that their research and development had made a significant contribution to Huygens’s horological innovations, and felt cheated when he announced his ‘eureka’ moment, and the perfection of the balancespring...
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Article 10 mins
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...Research Group at the Open University, Joint Professor of Physics at Gresham College in London and visiting Professor, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London On his area of interest: "Well I'm a neuroscientist and interested therefore in behaviour, but as a biologist I'm interested in evolution. Evolution simply means change over...
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Article 30 mins