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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...
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Article 5 mins
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...
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Article 10 mins
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...
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Article 35 mins
Supporting parents through pregnancy and birth distress
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting parents through pregnancy and birth distress

...working, clear signposting, and shared responsibility. Community-based and peer-led services play a vital role, particularly for parents who may mistrust statutory systems or feel excluded from traditional care pathways. Peer support, grounded in lived experience, can reduce isolation and shame while offering hope. Local services such as Connected (available in Derby) and...
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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...work is underway. So maybe the most important feature of Irish capacity legislation in the Republic of Ireland is how old it is, and how unfit for purpose it is and has been. For nearly a century, it's been outdated. But progress is being made. We're at a point of very great transition, when a new piece of legislation, the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act has been...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...work won the Times Higher Education Award for Research Project of the Year 2008. He has also received a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2004, a European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2006, the British Association Charles Lyell Award Lecture 2006, and the Geological Society of London William Smith Fund 2008. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...works, and discover how the limitations of the human brain can lead to major miscarriages of justice. Despite advances in forensic science, eyewitness testimony remains a critical component of criminal investigations. Psychological research has revealed the dangers of relying on evidence gained from an eyewitness and also how careful the police need to be when questioning...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs