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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...work but also serves as a guiding principle for others in academia who seek to make a meaningful impact on the communities they study. Theory enhancing research dissemination Black feminist epistemology offers a unique and invaluable framework for understanding the complexities of knowledge production and dissemination. It emphasises the lived experiences, narratives and...
Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...work and public spaces for British South Asian (BSA) Muslim women. What do we mean by embodied and intersectionality, and why might these be useful concepts to think about when we study the experiences of ethnic minority communities? Embodied differences Let’s start with embodied or embodiment. To embody is to represent an idea or quality exactly, and in relation to the...
Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...work. This is something on which a number of contributors to this archive project have shared some thoughts. [Photograph of Claire Hnna MP and her handwritten statement. See details below for full transcript.]Long before Sinn Féin, the SDLP took steps inside the Policing Board - there from November 2001 at the outset of the 'new beginning'. But what is today's snapshot...
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...work. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Science...Seeing the light: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of some of the basic facts about language, concepts and principles relating to the principles of design of a home understand how to extract information from sources such...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...works, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and explore the evolution of British detective fiction in relation to Christie’s background, literary modernism and the development of middlebrow fiction...When we think of twentieth century literature as a popular cultural form, Agatha Christie (1890–1976), Britain’s pre-eminent crime fiction author after the First World...
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...Working with displacement vectors Figure 3 shows two vectors bold r sub one and bold r sub two whose arrows start at the origin O and end at charges q sub one and q sub two . These vectors are called the position vectors of q sub one and q sub two . A position vector has dimensions of length, where the SI unit of length is the metre (m). [Described image] Figure 3 The...
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week there is no problem with pushing on to complete another week’s study. You will get plenty of opportunities as the course progresses to reflect on the arguments and examples that are presented and there are weekly quizzes to help bring your learning together. After completing this course, you...
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...work towards a formal qualification in the future; or you may have been encouraged to look at the course by friends, family or an employer. You may know quite a lot about babies and children through caring for your own or other people's. In this course you will be finding out about very young babies' abilities, and the ways in which they interact with the world around...