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Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...humans as being apart from nature, which is treated as an inexhaustible resource for human use. This is especially evident in commercial fishing, where the indiscriminate killing of uncounted numbers of aquatic animals is accepted as routine. However, as the criminologist Gary Potter argues, ‘[f]rom a social science perspective, it becomes clear that the social world...
Female genital mutilation (FGM) Collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Female genital mutilation (FGM) Collection

...resources. work effectively with multi-professional and multi-agency teams. practice within their respective professional codes and cultural competence requirements. It is also a topic that will interest students and practitioners in the fields of ethics and law, the police, educators ranging from primary to higher education, commissioners and the public. FGM is an...
How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...human nature...Find out more about The Open University's Education and Early Years courses and qualifications. Human nature [A group of children sitting on the floor looking up]Humans are not the strongest, fastest, or fiercest of creatures. And yet, put a group of us together and we have been able to inhabit every continent; develop science, law, art and medicine. The...
Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...resource. You can follow links to people, contexts, perspectives and methods to discover information, images and links from across psychology. The resource also links each of these people, contexts, perspectives and methods so you can see how each element is connected in the history of psychology...One of the keys to understanding psychology is to know about its history...
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Soil as the book of nature
Nature & Environment

Soil as the book of nature

...resources, alongside air and water. Why care for soils? Knowledge of the soil's physical, chemical and biological make-up is important for various disciplines. For example, nutrient levels are important for crop production, soil shear strength is crucial for engineering construction, and its structure could also be a deciding factor for football pitches! It also has more...
Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement
Nature & Environment

Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement

...resources A great deal of natural resources are required in the manufacture of electronic technology products, including water, gold, silver, copper, cobalt, lithium and many rare earth elements. These materials are either expended during manufacture or baked into the digital products – making their recovery complicated yet vital. A UN report suggests 7% of the global...
Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...resources and short courses to help develop skills and knowledge towards preparing for new work or enhancing a current career journey...The workplace and our society face many current challenging situations. You may have experienced considerable changes to your own working life, whether as an employer or employee, self-employed or business owner, or currently without paid...
Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
Education & Development

Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...resources. International codes such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights underpin ethical frameworks (United Nations, 1948). You may be aware of key legislation in your own country or the country where you plan to undertake the research, including laws relating to consent, data protection and decision-making capacity, for example, the Data Protection Act, 2018...