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Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...manage and maintain her own sense of wellbeing over the years. It’s almost as though one volunteering experience has led to the next for Sarah, with each one giving her the opportunity to push herself a little further and learn a little more each time. “All of these things – they’re sort of like little extra threads that you weave together through your skills and...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...manages harm, crime and victimisation are long overdue. 10. If not prisons, then what would we do instead? There is no single solution. The idea that there can be one is another myth that the use of the prison perpetuates. There are a number of alternative responses that could be utilised, including, for example: Focusing on victim needs, compensation and care Adopt a...
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...managing expectations will be needed (Ebubedike et al., 2023). The effect of such observation in situations of power imbalance or in the composition of focus groups, within which groups normally separated in general society are contrived to communicate in a shared space, needs to be considered to enable contributions to be made in a fair and supported way. For the courage...
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...introduction and overview of a topic, and can give you some clues on where to look next. Practising searching using Google Scholar. Google Scholar is a freely-available search engine that only returns links to scholarly literature, so it’s a good place to practise your searching techniques. Exercise Imagine that you have decided to research this question: What are the...
The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...Introduction - This course deals with the Moon, the only planetary body that everyone is familiar with seeing in the sky. You will learn about the nearest planetary body to Earth, the long record of cratering on its surface, and about the ancient eruptions that flooded many low-lying areas. If possible, it would be helpful to get a look at the Moon's surface before...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...Introduction - Large-scale human, social or global harms are areas that critical criminologists have been examining for some years. In the increasingly globalised world of the twenty-first century, such endeavours have become central to the critical enterprise. To this end, notions of a ‘supranational criminology’ (Smeulers and Haveman, 2008) have been developed. This...
Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...Introduction - Our family relationships can have a strong influence – positive and negative – on our health, and on how we behave in relation to our health. This OpenLearn course explores how family life impacts on the health of individuals, and how the family is often the focus for health promotion initiatives, such as the national '5 A DAY' campaign. Many informal...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...Introduction - Welcome to this free course, Introducing Union Black. Start by watching the following video which gives an overview of the course. LURRAINE JONES: My name is Lurraine Jones, and I’m the Deputy Dean for Equality Diversity and Inclusion at The Open University. I’m here for lots of reasons. I’m here because 25% of Black and minority ethnic students have...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs