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World in transition: Managing Resources
Nature & Environment

World in transition: Managing Resources

...social relations and gender.In the bonus material Dr Helen Yanacopulos, Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Development at The Open University, provides insight into the educational value of the audio-visual material and explains the course structure. This material is taken from The Open University Course U213 International development: challenges for a world in...
Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context
Nature & Environment

Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context

...Social Dimensions of Climate Change" organised by the World Bank. This 'Earth in Crisis' album offer a sophisticated understanding of the processes and players that shape contemporary international environmental problems, evaluates what can and should be done in the future, and explores how responses to these dilemmas are intertwined with issues of development,...
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...work through the remainder of this course, you will develop your understanding of the terms ‘organism’, ‘environment’, ‘habitat’ and ‘interrelationship’. When you come across one of these terms, stop and think about how it has been used. Does the way the term has been used change, or add anything to, your understanding? Answer Organisms: wide range of...
Studying the arts and humanities
History & The Arts

Studying the arts and humanities

...working through study material on your own. Secondly, this material will introduce you to, or renew your acquaintance with, the tools of study that you will need...Studying the arts and humanities: 1.1.1 Distance-teaching technique - We also want to introduce you to the distance-teaching technique used in this course, which is to offer you a point at which to stop so that...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...social movements who joined Labour, enthused by the Corbyn campaign, and had every intention of remaining in the Party. The reasoning behind these new rejections looks, at least at first sight, murky. Hattie Craig is a recent graduate from the University of Birmingham, and a relatively prominent activist the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts – the biggest...
A brief history of sex education
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of sex education

...social changes of the 1960s and ‘70s. Biology textbooks started to provide fuller accounts of the human reproductive systems, while methods of contraception began to be taught more widely. The emphasis was mostly on the provision of accurate information, and aims of sex education programmes included a decrease in ignorance, guilt, embarrassment and anxiety. Issues to do...
Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?

...socially defined roles, behaviours and expectations. We are only now starting to understand sex-and-gender-based differences in women with cardiovascular disease, as for many years women were not included in clinical trials. Risk factors for heart disease, as well as the way it manifests itself, can be different between men and women. Risk factors common to both sexes...
Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...social factors. For example, ‘patient activation’ is a term used to describe how involved a person can be in decisions and the extent to which they can self-manage their health. Sharing decision-making between an individual and a professional allows the clinical evidence to be used alongside someone’s lived experience of drug treatment. It is not unusual to see...