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Working for health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working for health

...study. This material forms part of The Open University course K203 Working for health... Working for health A short introduction to this album. Radical midwives London midwives talk about their rebellion against new practices within the NHS, and why they set up the Association of Radical Midwives. Gene activists Activists challenge the safety claims and the science behind...
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Audio 2 hrs 33 mins
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course should encourage you to think about taking other courses. ['An introduction to exoplanets' digital badge]...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each week of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why do some cities thrive?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do some cities thrive?

...study for the Foresight Project looked at 63 cities across the UK. One finding was that the fastest growing cities over the past three decades were the new towns like Milton Keynes that had been deliberately planned and developed through post-war public policy. “In these cases, everything to do with a new settlement could be thought about holistically – an argument...
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Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...study [1] found that a global tree planting effort aimed at increasing tree cover by 0.9 billion hectares would help to remove two-thirds of all human-produced carbon dioxide. But amid the clamour for more trees, for the many people involved in looking after trees and woodlands the over-riding concern is that we aren’t taking enough care of our existing trees. Part of...
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STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...study. In 2010 ASTiP launched a specific Postgraduate suite of qualifications for STiP, with now over 1200 students having studied our core STiP modules. The ASTiP group and our PG alumni, drawing on ASTiP-led scholarship and action research initiatives from 2014, took a lead role in establishing a Trailblazing Group with the UK Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical...
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Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...study ‘Environment: responding to change’ (module SDT306), I took part in interactive learning and data collection through the citizen science project Treezilla, also known as the ‘monster map of trees’. This is available online at treezilla.org and as a smartphone app. The site allows you to record individual tree data by measuring the tree’s circumference at a...
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Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...studies. When I began the project, I knew relatively little about Corsica, Poland, or Haiti. Immersing myself in their histories was truly intellectually exciting. The most difficult part was, unsurprisingly, the same thing. Each case required serious engagement with unfamiliar historiographies and sources. It meant moving beyond one national context and thinking...
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Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
History & The Arts

Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery

...study biological sciences. After gaining an honours degree at Leicester, I had various race-related difficulties in finding a job, but I completed my PhD at Heriot Watt, which at that time was a college but my registration was at The University of Edinburgh. While working as a researcher at the Brewing Research Foundation, I discovered the process of converting barley...
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