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Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...management of national and global health risks. 1: Disruption to maternal care and reproductive services Target 3.1 of SDG3 aims to reduce the global maternal mortality (i.e. where a woman dies from pregnancy related causes while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy) ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030 (UN Women (2020)). Improvements in...
Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...managing overlapping forms of oppression linked with gender, race and disability (Malcolm and Green, 2025). The Triad of Oppression In our early conversations, born out of the informality and authenticity of friendship, we had distilled our research interests into a deceptively straightforward question: ‘what is it like to be a Black mother raising an autistic child in...
Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...Project My name is Ade Thomas and I am the founder of Green.TV which is an online platform for publishing sustainability, clean tech and conservation video content. This is what I do So, Green.TV’s mission is to communicate conservation, clean tech and sustainability issues. We do that via what we call a multichannel publishing platform; that means a system of channels...
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 My name is Caroline Underwood and I’m now a senior producer at the CBC’s science series called The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. How I got started I was one of those unlikely little girls that actually did like to play out of doors and my father liked to walk and we did a lot of walking in the woods. When I went to...
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...manage to single out sounds and images that require attention and how easy is it to distract someone and why...What does 'attention' mean to you? This free course, Attention, will help you to examine how we 'pay attention'. How do we manage to single out sounds and images that require attention and how easy is it to distract someone and why....Attention: Introduction -...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...project managers involved. When the Russians get divorced living in a flat they’ll use British lawyers to service their needs in that, and so there’s a sort of economy built around that. That’s the British service economy. So that’s another example of this kind of move upmarket. And the third of course are those intellectual property type industries, like...
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...Introduction - This course provides an overview of Scotsman John Napier (1550-1617) and his new method for reducing the work needed to do complicated calculations. The course introduces how logarithms can turn multiplications into additions, and explores how Napier’s work was adopted and improved by other mathematicians. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...Introduction - We start the week by thinking about why we teach pronunciation and what pronunciation to teach. You will also familiarise yourself with the main features of pronunciation. You will be asked to reflect on concepts such as intelligibility, fluency, foreign accent, language variation, articulation and acoustics. By the end of this week you will have:...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs