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Exploring the icy moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the icy moons

...study at school. Can you tell me a little bit about your journey to astrobiology and how you arrived where you are now? By accident! Since childhood, I’ve been interested in in the big questions about where we come from, the evolution of life on Earth, the origins of life on Earth … life as a consequence of planetary evolution, almost, although I wouldn't have thought...
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Article 10 mins
Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...studies with The Open University in 2019. I am now an OU Alumni but have been continuing engaging in research-based projects with the OU after writing a participatory research proposal on bereavement for my final assessment in 2023. I experienced a significant bereavement in my early school years, after my mum died of a rare form of cancer in 1999. Since then, I have gone...
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Article 5 mins
Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...Studying history is really the process of interpreting the past. Primary sources are the raw material historians draw upon in their investigations. They are direct evidence of the past. As such they differ from secondary sources (books, articles, radio and TV programmes or unpublished theses written or presented by historians) in that they actually come from the period...
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Article 15 mins
Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the use of objects and museum activities can enhance pupil learning identify museum resources and support available to teachers, and understand the ways of accessing those...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world
Society, Politics & Law

The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world

...Study, conducted by Professor Olga Jurasz, examined the scale, impact and societal attitudes towards online violence against women and girls (OVAWG) across the UK. It found that 1 in 4 women in England experience OVAWG and 1 in 3 LGBTQ+ women experience online violence. Similarly, in Scotland 1 in 3 young women (aged under 34) experienced OVAWG, while 1 in 2 LGBTQ+...
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Audio 30 mins
Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Democracy? You think you know?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: consider the value of democracy, through examples challenge perceived wisdom about our political systems...Democracy? You think you know?: 1 Is democracy really such a good thing? - Politics is vital...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...study of environments. Like any other estuary, the Blackwater brings together a diverse range of processes, elements and issues that constitute the environment. It offers us a way into thinking about how to approach the study of environments and why environmental questions are so pressing. By drawing on a variety of examples from the estuary we intend to convey how broad...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...studying this course, you should be able to: outline to what extent a person’s ‘lifestyle’ impacts upon their health and wellbeing describe how psychosocial (i.e. social, economic, cultural and political) factors influence a person’s health identify what government interventions have been developed to tackle a health issue, in particular obesity...Exploring...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs