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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

...work, while private hospitals in some parts of the world have decided to close or work in a limited way during the pandemic. Finally, reports have suggested that some women might also be reluctant to deliver in hospital due to the fear of contracting COVID-19. While data needs to be collected to understand the scale of COVID-19’s impact, early evidence from India...
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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

...work that we ourselves have undertaken, there is vanishingly little research which focuses specifically on Black motherhood and disability. By extension, there is an alarming lack of culturally competent provision to support mothers whose identity sits at the intersection of race, gender, and disability. This ensures that, in many cases, the challenges associated with the...
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Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials
Education & Development

Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials

...Works towards building an inclusive, sustainable and resilient future for people and the planet. Harmonises the three core elements of environmental protection, social inclusion and economic growth. These elements are interconnected and all are crucial for the well-being of individuals, societies and economies. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the...
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Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...worked. ALICE ROBERTS If you’ve got corrosion inside the cable, that’s weakening it from the inside? ALASTAIR ANDREW It is weakening the cable but the cable is perfectly safe at the moment. But, if we cannot stop that corrosion, the predictions are that we will have to stop heavy goods vehicles using the bridge in 2014 and, ultimately, close the bridge by 2019. ALICE...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...work together – or in opposition – shapes crucial global outcomes, such as peaceful coexistence, economic growth, and solutions for global challenges like climate change and human rights. IR explores topics like war, peace, trade, the environment and migration, making it a broad and dynamic field. Contemporary issues, like those seen in the daily news, frequently...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...work explores where the new digital world might take us...Introduction In an (in)famous postscript, Gilles Deleuze traces the emergence of a society of control, whose passive danger is jamming, and whose active danger lies in piracy and viruses. Media jamming and piracy, hacktivism and viruses are all rampant today: the internet is their natural breeding ground, to the...
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Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...work harder to see the significance of this second key question, but the effort will be worthwhile. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD102 Introducing the social sciences...Political ordering: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand key social issues and debates in contemporary UK...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...working on that site, massive sort of barrack like accommodation, working and building reactors and things called ‘canyons’, which were reprocessing plants and the bulk of those people had got no idea of what they were doing. And what was happening there was not revealed until August in 1945, when it was revealed that Hanford had produced sufficient plutonium to put...
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