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Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...world, as in the late twentieth century, are often linked to wider regional or global struggles, as illustrated in Figure 1. People flee mainly because of war, repression and human rights abuses rather than poverty (Crawley and Loughna, 2003). However, the distinction between being a ‘refugee’ or an ‘economic migrant’ is neither simple nor straightforward. [Figure...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...world around us and this sense is displayed in two ways. We all have our own ‘internal models’ of how things work based on our experiences and our interpretation of those experiences. These ‘internal models’ shape our thoughts and actions and lead us to expect certain outcomes from certain activities. They change and evolve with new experiences or (hopefully) when...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...World War as a reaction to the revelations of the atrocities committed by Nazi doctors experimenting on prisoners in concentration camps. In 1964, the World Medical Association adopted a declaration on research ethics called the Declaration of Helsinki. This set out ethical rules for carrying out research on humans, prioritising the wellbeing of the individuals above all...
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...world. Spring This film explores how artists have depicted spring, the season of new life, with reference to works by such painters as Sandro Botticelli, Rembrandt and Vincent Van Gogh. Transcript Hello, I’m Emma Barker, senior lecturer in art history at the Open University, and I’m ending my little series of films about the seasons in art by considering spring. And...
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...world’s most powerful computers can’t perform accurate real-time translation. Yet interpreters do it with ease. Geoff Watts meets the neuroscientists who are starting to explain this remarkable ability...One morning this summer I paid a visit to the sole United Nations agency in London. The headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) sit on the...
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...World http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/?p=4848 The other two maps on the left and right of Figure 2 take rather different approaches to the geography of the UK, using methods that highlight things quite differently. In them a picture – or cartogram – is constructed based around the size of the electorate, rather than the territory on the ground. What is generated...
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...world bank indicator values] This sort of chart is known as a bar chart. Each bar relates to a different thing, in this case fertility rate in different countries. It was created using a tool called DataWrapper that is used by an increasing number of news organisations across the world to illustrate their online news stories with interactive data charts. Three different...
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...world right from the beginning of your studies. We’re not asking you to develop good academic practice for the sake of it. These guidelines will help you with your writing – a key graduate skill. This course will also help you avoid being accused of plagiarism, but that in itself is not the complete objective; we want you to develop good academic writing skills. We...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs