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Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...article ‘The disappearance of the sick-man from medical cosmology, 1770–1870’ (1976), few historians would have questioned how the laboratory acquired this central role within medicine. In an area when ‘high tech’, scientific medicine seemed to supply an endless stream of new theories and better therapies, the laboratory was assumed to have won its place simply...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...article/ dn17025-deadly-new-flu-virus-in-us-and-mexico-may-go-pandemic.html (accessed 24 November 2011). Poddar, S. K. (2002) ‘Influenza virus types and subtypes detection by single step single tube multiplex reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and agarose gel electrophoresis’ [online], Journal of Virological Methods, vol. 99. no. 1–2, pp....
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...et al., 2004). For Sir Winston Churchill’s funeral only about 3,000 mourners were allowed in the cathedral itself, but it is estimated that 350 million watched the St Paul’s service on television (Klein, 2015). [Described image] Figure 6 Interior view of St Paul’s Cathedral during the funeral of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington in 1852, lithograph, height 67 cm....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...article is based on research conducted in 2012, the year she graduated from The Open University with her Doctorate in Geography. Dr Wadsley, along with Dr Duika Burges Watson (Newcastle University, formerly Durham) were joint-recipients of the RGS-IBG Neville Shulman Challenge Award for 'Hugging the Coast: an exploration by sea-kayak of liminal living in the Sangihe...
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Video 15 mins
Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...article The power of objects by clicking on the link below. Click 'view documents' below to download The power of objects View document Now try the questions in the accompanying activity sheet Questioning objects, by clicking on the link below. Click 'view document' below to open the Activity sheet View document You will need a mobile phone to be your ‘object’ – an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world
Society, Politics & Law

The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world

...articles and having won numerous external grants supporting her research, Miriam has significantly influenced the discourse in the field of Responsible AI. She is also Equality and Diversity Champion for the OU. Joseph is a Research Associate at The Open University and a leading voice in responsible AI and social justice. He recently completed his PhD in Computer Science,...
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Audio 30 mins
Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...et al., 2012) As illustrated by both social workers in the videos, making the link between personal experience and what social workers bring to their practice is an important early step towards their becoming a reflective practitioner. Good social work practice is primarily about relationships (Wilson et al., 2011) and engaging effectively with service users, carers and...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...article called ‘Clean lines for hospital fittings’: ‘More than 70 designers have teamed up …’ ‘A lot of hospital furniture has nooks and crannies that are repositories for bugs, so the challenge was to design those out.’ ‘The [Design] council then called on designers to offer alternatives.’ ‘One team [was asked] to redesign a bedside chair.’ These...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs