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Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...change in both settings, rather than as an intruder in one and imposter in the other. Getting to know a setting can be achieved in many ways including starting with desk-based research, advice from other researchers and community members, even before entering the research site. This requires a commitment by the research team to ‘recognise the ‘process as product’,...
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Article 30 mins
A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...Changed a Nation’ (2018), Black teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered at a bus stop in Eltham, south-east London in an unprovoked, racially motivated attack by five teenage white males. Only two of the white perpetrators were convicted of Stephen’s murder over twenty years later using DNA evidence. Much has been written about Stephen’s murder, and indeed by many...
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Article 10 mins
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...change their approach in light of how a conflict develops. Take home: although there is such a thing as ‘creative conflict’, a little bit of the ‘wrong’ kind of conflict can be devastating, both to individual wellbeing and team effectiveness. To maintain or support the re-establishing of trust within the team, managers need to interrogate the background to...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...change - The principal function of emojis, though, is as a means of communication. And it’s in this context that laments such as the one in the New York Post are framed. Almost identical sentiments could be found in several other publications in the middle of the decade. For example, an article cited in the Huffington Post in 2016 complained that ‘after 5,000 years of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...change is forced in particular directions, perhaps by the 'needs of animals'. If, as a student of evolution, you use such language, others might conclude that you believe in 'directed evolution'. As you'll appreciate when we discuss in more detail how evolution is driven by natural selection operating on random variation, this concept is exactly contrary to how evolution...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...changes could impact the industry and its stakeholders. This course material was originally written for FutureLearn in 2015. It was published on OpenLearn in February 2019....Week 1: The value of film: Introduction - The film business aims to make money, just like any other business. However, it's also an important cultural aspect of our lives, and a key part of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...changes over the years. I've deliberately chosen to discuss poems from different periods, and given dates of first publication. Do keep this in mind, especially as you may find some examples more accessible than others. The idiom and register of a poem written in the eighteenth century will usually be quite different from one written in the twentieth. Different verse...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...change over time and vary between countries, so that what may be a crime in one place or at one time may not be so at another. But it is also the case that whether some behaviour gets treated as a crime or even viewed as deviant may depend on more contextual factors: Who did it? Where did they do it? We will come back to these problems later in the course. For social...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs