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Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...social relations of research production, and to promote disabled people’s individual and collective empowerment, should be user-led and accountable to those being researched (Barnes, 2003). Nor, perhaps is it surprising if such research seeks to involve diverse voices from the outset and as key participants throughout. But what about a less obviously participatory...
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Article 15 mins
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...social meaning or magnificence, or alongside coins and ceramics as aspects of identity. Equally, visual culture serves as an eloquent indicator of gender. If art is defined, as it was in later centuries, solely as an aesthetic entity prompting scrutiny for its own sake alone, then the purposefulness of the varied forms of art produced during the medieval and Renaissance...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...social and economic activities has led to the air quality improving in many cities with a reduction in water pollution in different parts of the world’ (Rume and Islam, 2020). These benefits are being rapidly reserved as we move more freely again, leading to the question: how can organisations adapt, drawing on appropriate evidence and research to ensure that net-zero...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...interactions and social condition of the age, i.e. the beginnings of a modern consumer society. Another aspect in the same question was aiding poor litigants. That leads to the question: how did May Donoghue afford the cost of an appeal all the way from Scotland to London? The journey from Scotland to London and into the House of Lords cannot have been an easy one. It...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...social revolutions of the 1960s, impacted upon American rock musician Janis Joplin (1943-1970). You will investigate the extent to which the contemporary sexual revolution brought about greater gender equality for female popular musicians such as Janis Joplin, and consider whether it might be more accurate to view this as a superficial revolution which masked the reality...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...socially-deprived area are said to have a 'brown environmental health agenda'. There are almost as many perspectives on the environment as there are on political parties. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Sustainable Scotland: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the terms...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...interaction of human and physical processes in the making of environments and the understanding of environmental issues understand coastal regions as dynamic and contested environments consider the contested nature of coastal management policies using the case study of managed retreat...Managing coastal environments: 1.1 The Blackwater estuary - ‘Between the mouths of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Working in the voluntary sector Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...interact with other people. Draw a ‘star chart’ to represent your role as follows: Quickly list the people you deal with and who are important to you in doing your work (paid or unpaid). Include people both within the organisation and outside it (for example, service users, funders, head office, local government, etc.). If there are more than, say, 10, try grouping...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs