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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...writing and develop your understanding of the challenges of demonstrating critical awareness of a subject area. It will also help you to communicate original ideas or a new perspective clearly and within coherent structures, making use of appropriate scholarly and research literature. You will explore the need to draw on theories, models, frameworks and evidence to...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...creative methods workshop organized by Umut Erel (Lecturer in Sociology, at the Open University) in cooperation with the Migration Museum Project in London. Taking place just a few days before the referendum, and incorporating a breath-taking exhibition on everyday life in Calais’ ‘Jungle’ camp, the workshop opened up a space for collective reflections on the uses...
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Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron

...creative, passionate, mysterious A bit about me: Love first touched my soul at the mere age of 8 when I set eyes upon my distant cousin Mary Duff. I was later to learn of her marriage, and ‘it nearly threw me into convulsions…sometimes I doubt if I have ever been really attached since.’ (The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Thomas...
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How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom
History & The Arts

How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom

...writing could be. Sitting at their keyboards, bedroom coders had unique, almost auteur-like, visions for their code. Like film directors Alfred Hitchcock or Francois Truffaut, many had full control, with only occasional suggestions from a software distributor. They could earn rock star size royalty cheques, but this was not necessarily about the money. Micros were seen as...
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Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing

...writing: “There is or may be a hidden life within him which may be reached by harmony.” The writer James Webster recorded in 1842 that: “In many, the effect produced by the music upon their countenances and behaviour was often quite apparent.” Records include many stories of patients seemingly cured by music. Webster cites the example of a young girl, previously...
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Metric spaces and continuity
Science, Maths & Technology

Metric spaces and continuity

...creative leap is to use this observation to raise these properties to the status of axioms and to say that any function that satisfies them is a well-defined distance function, known as a metric. The extract is relatively self-contained and should be reasonably easy to understand for someone with a sound knowledge of pure mathematics, such as could be gained from studying...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...writing. Creative homework, like the examples you saw in the video of Activity 2, are more inviting for parents. Most parents would be happy, for instance, to help their child cook, draw, observe the local environment, or build a simple model with recycled materials. Homework should be a beneficial learning experience, where parents can participate. Teachers can design...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Reflections on the Free to Bleed event at the Vagina Museum
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reflections on the Free to Bleed event at the Vagina Museum

...creative expression and legal analysis, the project challenges stigma and highlights how menstrual inequity affects people across the UK. [Free to bleed: data driven advocacy and art for menstrual justice] The event at the Vagina Museum was designed to highlight the project, introduce Wee Nuls, the artist in residence, and showcase key findings from the YouGov poll on...
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