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The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...think of a smaller population, mostly living and working in rural communities, in harmony with the seasons. Move forward to 2000, and the image changes profoundly. You might picture towns and cities full of people, with a myriad of new technologies coming before your eyes. How this transformation happened is one of the great questions of historical study, and not just for...
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Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes
Society, Politics & Law

Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes

...think it was important to juxtapose the journey of someone who acquires citizenship by investment with those of a skilled worker and a refugee? NV: We wanted to situate all of this in the context of broader debates about migration and asylum, particularly given the current ‘refugee crisis’. We wanted to make sure that the person playing the game could see the...
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Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...thinking about the Irish border since my early teens. Born in Dublin to Irish parents, my family moved to England for my Dad’s job in the early 1970s. Born in Ireland, raised in England, I have now lived in Belfast for 25 years, so issues of national identity, where you belong, and where people think you belong, were impressed upon me from quite an early age. The Irish...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...think about the reasons for this. In dialogue with the poet Below we've included an interview with Nuala Ní Dhomnhaill and Angus Calder. The conversation covers a wide range of topics concerning language, translation, gender and identity in Ní Dhomhnaill’s poetry which you might find interesting to link back to the discussions of Irish women’s poetry featured in our...
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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...thinking approach, accounting for work-from-home (WFH) remote energy consumption alongside associated reductions in office energy requirements. The rapidly growing B-Corp certification is stricter in this respect, requiring companies to declare their remote worker energy consumption. This can be rather complicated from both technical and moral perspectives. In a video...
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Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...think about your part in the many roles that teaching assistants can play. One interesting feature of the teaching assistant workforce is the extent to which it is overwhelmingly female. Why are women, especially many who are mothers, drawn to this work, and why are there so few men? This is one of the themes you will explore in this course. As with teachers and their...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...think about the source contained within the message itself and consider whose voice is present in the promotional message? What are they telling us about the brand? And from what position of authority? Sometimes, through the use of a simple voice-over, the source remains an absent presence – heard but not seen. Although, even here, marketers might use a recognisable...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...think there is a misunderstanding, and people don’t realize that it is all connected and all related. You can’t have the mural without the tag’ (Ferrari cited in Imam, 2012)...Visions of protest: Graffiti: 6 Graffiti as a form of popular protest - The following case study illustrates how graffiti has been used as an articulation of popular public protest. In 2010,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs