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Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...learned from Mr Holmes, principally in order to know how the clocks behaved in a storm, and if in that climate rust did not eventually cause them to stop’. The matter of Holmes’s trustworthiness was raised at the 8 March meeting of the Royal Society (at which Huygens’s concerns were raised, and the letter of 6 March read): It was affirmed by several of the members,...
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Article 10 mins
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...Learn more about the overrepresentation of Black young people and the criminal justice system. Find out what Kenechi, 13, and Loren, 18 think about race. As an introduction to policy, watch Video 1 of Pete Alcock, a Professor of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, answering the question ‘What is social policy?’ Activity 1: What is social policy? Timing: 6...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...Learn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD802 Investigating forensic psychology. Explore the collection of Postgraduate study in psychology and criminology...The psychology of cybercrime: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: outline the impact on victims distinguish different types of cybercrime, considering the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...learned how to make and record observations in a systematic way, how to plot graphs, and how to interpret your data. Now, both of the experiments revealed some important facts about water. And this week, you're going to do another simple experiment that will reveal something astonishing. You're going to freeze some common liquids to see how their properties differ when...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...learn about the work of lawyers and the judiciary and explore how Scottish courts and tribunals operate in an open and transparent way working to ensure justice...This free course, Scottish courts and the law, explores the role, function and purpose of the courts in Scotland and their relationship with the law. You consider the way in which cases come to court, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: outline the scope and nature of some of the key disciplines in the social sciences identify the core features of critical criminology explain how aspects of the social world might be explored from different disciplinary perspectives understand how critical criminology relates to other social...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...learn more about PhD study in the UK? Do you know how to apply? This free OpenLearn course is about studying for a PhD in psychology. Even if you have met PhD students and heard about their projects, it’s likely that you have only a vague idea of what PhD study entails. In this course, you’ll learn how it differs from other study options. In Session 1 you will obtain...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...learn from objects that we can’t find out from the reading of texts? There’s no simple answer to these questions but, as we shall discover in the course of this course, there’s no getting around the ubiquity of things. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Arts and Humanities...An introduction to material culture: Learning outcomes - After...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs