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Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...research and development (R&D). On the other side are developing countries, claiming their rights to buy or manufacture existing medicines at low prices to prevent diseases and to help their people. These interests not only conflict, but it is also unclear how either one is best protected. Not everyone believes that strong IPR protection benefits the pharmaceutical...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...research essays. In order to do this, you will need to be able to read the most appropriate sources and use some of the theories and information they contain in your essays. You will learn to do this during the first two weeks of this course. This week you start by looking at the different texts that university students read. You will then learn to follow an active...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...Research Center study from earlier this year, more than 40 percent of American adults get their news from Facebook. Facebook — and its algorithm — are extremely powerful and exert huge amounts of control over what type of news coverage a significant number of its users see. So what does it mean when it’s promoting blatantly false news and clickbait aggregation? How...
Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol
History & The Arts

Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol

...Research Group Wales, sy'n uno ac yn cefnogi ymchwilwyr a phobl frwdfrydig dros hanes LHDTC+ Cymru. Mae llyfrau gan Norena Shopland yn cynnwys A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment, Forbidden Lives: LGBT Stories from Wales a A Practical Guide to Searching LGBTQIA Historical Records (LGBTQ Histories. Dysgwch fwy ar OpenLearn [AC...
Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...research showing in one English Health Authority 11% of one parent families were headed up by nurses (Delamothe,1988). Remembering the nurses strike of 1988 The third dispute of 1988 occurred in December and was solely a nurse’s dispute on the issue of pay after nurses were promised significant pay rises but once again found that the small print of the regrading...
The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...research further. This became the Roots Oral History Project resulting in recorded interviews with men and women of the Windrush generation. With the support of the African Caribbean Language Unit in 8411 Moss Side Community Education Centre, a selection of these were published in 1992 in a booklet called ‘Rude Awakening: African Caribbean Settlers in Manchester - an...
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...research. This is not to say that everything that was argued or written was productive or ‘correct’. There was a lot of verbiage, fashionable silliness and toeing the line. Other arguments were often marginalised as off-message and some immensely significant thinkers were treated as ‘dead dogs’, only to return later full of vigour. Aesthetics was treated as...
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...research sector. My big interest in mental health is severe mental illness and psychosis in particular, and the links between psychotic experience and various types of adversity, including social adversity. CIARAN MULHOLLAND My name is Ciaran Mulholland. I’m a consultant psychiatrist. A psychiatrist, just in case any of the listeners are unaware, a psychiatrist is first...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs