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Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport

...working in senior jobs in F1, Mueller is set to be the first to work in the role of race engineer. As a race engineer, she will work most closely with Esteban Ocon on the set-up and running of his car and will be the main link between the driver and the team on the track through radio communications. Additionally, Carine Cridelich will join Haas as new Head of Strategy...
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...working-class readers were particular fans of Dickens. East-Ender George Acorn was punished by his parents for wasting 3½d on a second-hand copy of David Copperfield, but later changed their minds by reading the saddest passages aloud to them (UK RED: 2368). Arthur Harding, a Victorian professional criminal, enjoyed A Tale of Two Cities and Dombey and Son when he read...
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...working lives. This free course, Information technology: A new era?, looks at whether it is possible to predict the future of this industry by comparing it to the development of the automobile industry in the USA...Do the advances in information technology equate to a new industrial revolution? The advances made by IBM, Dell and many other manufacturers have resulted in...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...worked in, written about and discussed their experiences. Activity 1 Words and their meaning Timing: Allow about 30 minutes To begin, read the discussion in Reading A, written by OU academics. While you are doing so you may wish to take some notes about why the use of language is important in mental health and what its use might suggest to those who have mental ill-health...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time
Society, Politics & Law

Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time

...working class situation, a working class background voted yes, or everyone who was middle or upper class voted no, but the evidence is there that shows that there was a major division between some of the cities and rural areas, between some small towns and suburban areas, but then we have the situation where all of Glasgow, all the constituencies in Glasgow voted yes;...
General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...worked out your philosophy. A great performance without that policy is absolutely pointless. Paddy Ashdown was in some respects a really good performer, politically. He was good at sound bites; he looked good; ex-Army man, he had a great back story; had hopeless policies and it was never going to work. MICHAEL SAWARD Perhaps as voters we’re accepting stage managed...
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...working with today has a clear structure. First there are two parts of the team, the engineers and the scientists. The engineers keep the rover safe, watch over its health and put together all the sequences that make the rover measure and image the targets that we scientists pick out as interesting and of scientific importance. I am a mineralogist by training, and thus I...
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...work on’ anymore. From that moment on it appeared that the clinical staff's behaviour around my grandfather changed, as if he was doomed in some way. Although a ‘do not resuscitate’ form – also known as a DNACPR for do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation – does not mean there has been a decision to stop other treatments or care, it can be symbolically...