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Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks
History & The Arts

Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks

...course, there’s still big money in music. Increasingly, though, it’s live revenues that count, especially for artists without a back catalogue of hits, trying to build a career. It’s difficult to feel sorry for stars jetting between stadiums. Restrictions won’t hurt them much. But putting a show on the road with a shoestring budget, on the other hand, is hard at...
Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...course on Cybersecurity: Chelsea Manning (born Bradley Manning) was a United States Army soldier who leaked confidential information, including 250,000 United States diplomatic messages and 500,000 United States Army reports as well as videos of military action in Iraq, to the WikiLeaks website. Manning obtained copies of classified materials during service in Iraq in...
Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers

...courses and qualifications. [A sky diver's eye view] Laurie Taylor: As a teenager I had a few goes on the Grand National at Blackpool, but my most daring fairground ride was always Wallis’s Wonder Waltzer. Do you remember the Waltzer? It was those egg-shaped carriages holding up to half-a-dozen people, and the chrome rail that was lowered into your lap, and then the...
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...course of action from a list of options will be asked to choose most and least effective answer; or rate possible answers for effectiveness; or choose one most practical course of action, so must read the instructions carefully! commonly used for many job roles, even at entry-level, sometimes within the online application form/process itself Personality tests evaluates...
The health impacts of FGM
Health, Sports & Psychology

The health impacts of FGM

...course. Who performs FGM and how is it undertaken FGM is commonly performed by lay ‘cutters’ within practising communities. It can include using non-medical instruments to cut skin and without providing anaesthetic for pain relief. Many women and girls do not consent, are not told what will happen, and are forcibly restrained during the procedure. A growing concern is...
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil. London. Random House Pierre, J. (2013) The Predicaments of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race, Chicago. Chicago University Press Phillips, C; Earle, R.; Parma, A. and Smith, D. (2019) ‘Dear British criminology: Where has all the race and racism gone?’, Theoretical Criminology, on-line first:...
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...course it’s very easy to locate a very small organisation, but when one thinks of Shell or the mafia it’s very hard to give them a location as it would be just to point to the lamppost. And that brings up another point. You can’t generally smell them or feel them; they don’t seem to be observable in the way that a table or a lamppost is. You can see individual...
What does it take to mentor young offenders?
Education & Development

What does it take to mentor young offenders?

...three components. This was seen as a result of the reflective approach adopted; defining the rationale behind each activity, developing clarity around what works and what doesn’t, and ensuring that these are appropriate to age and skills of individual mentors. Ever thought of volunteering? Try our badged open course Find out more about working with young people here...