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The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...Participants in the audio programme were: John Muncie Professor of Criminology at The Open University; Bob Patison Superintendent with the Newcastle Police force; Andrew Puddephat General Secretary of Liberty (civil rights organisation); Richard Thomas Member of the Association of Chief Police Officers crime prevention sub committee; Richard Sparks Professor of Criminology at the University of Keele and now Professor of ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...resources, which markets, who is involved, the income people get, the income and value they create are all discussed. You will explore these questions at different stages of the production of a t-shirt, and you'll use concepts from economics such as 'supply chains' or 'value added' to answer them. The course will be described using data. You should think about key numbers...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Irish Women’s Poetry
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry

...Education Bureau (WEB) and through organising workshops around the island with facilitators such as Eavan Boland who worked with women to develop their own writing voices. Salmon Poetry, established by American poet Jessie Lendennie in 1981, published the first collections of a number of women writers who would gain prominence in later years, for example Rita Ann Higgins,...
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Article 5 mins
Am I Normal? - an inaugural lecture by Professor Blaine Price
Miscellaneous

Am I Normal? - an inaugural lecture by Professor Blaine Price

...Open University, the Berrill Theatre Blaine Price is Professor of Computing in the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at The Open University (OU). His research interests focus on improving people’s engagement with data gathered from mobile, wearable and so-called ‘ubiquitous computing’ technologies that increasingly form part of our lives....
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Herodotus 'The Histories'
History & The Arts

Herodotus 'The Histories'

...open enquiry [Herodotus] Marble bust of Herodotus Sometime in the middle of the 5th century BC, Herodotus, a Greek, living in a city called Halicarnassus (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) set out to explain the origins of the Great War from a generation before. This war was waged between his peoples, the Greeks, and the Persians. In the resulting work, ‘The Histories’,...
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The Great Fall: Berlin’s ‘Freedom’ concert
History & The Arts

The Great Fall: Berlin’s ‘Freedom’ concert

...opened before East Berliners had the opportunity to re-engage with one of the city’s most prestigious cultural institutions: the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. On Sunday 12 November 1989, Daniel Baremboim conducted a celebratory performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony in the orchestra’s home, the Philharmonie, to which all East Berliners were invited. But this...
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Why grow a tree? Barriers and boosters for landowners to adopt agroforestry
Society, Politics & Law

Why grow a tree? Barriers and boosters for landowners to adopt agroforestry

...Open University's Economics courses and qualifications. On 27 April 2022, OU Economics hosted a seminar with Dr Aiora Zabala of The Open University and Anique Hillbrand, programme manager at OroVerde, the Tropical Forest Foundation, who shared their research and experience on forest and landscape restoration in Mexico and Guatemala. Trailer Watch the trailer below for the...
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