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Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...project received ethics approval, we formalised what we were already doing. We transcribed relevant voice notes and developed intentional reflections, guided by the same prompts we used with our participants. We also conducted what we called a bilateral focus group, interviewing each other using the same questions posed to the mothers in our study. These reflections...
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A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...project to their children both a conscious and unconscious value-coded repertoire of white sanctioned behaviours that psychosocially regulates and controls her Black child. Criminalisation and policing – do Black Lives Matter? Contemporary UK statistics evidence the use of restraint found to be more prevalent in cases of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) people who have...
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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...Project Tamsin Edwards interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer TE: = Tamsin Edwards, Open University RH: Tell us about yourself and your blog. TE: My name’s Tamsin Edwards. I’m a lecturer at the Open University in Environmental Sciences, and I have a blog run by the website PLOS called All Models are Wrong, and that’s named after a fairly famous quote within...
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...introduction to the Irish Gothic), Irish writers took this tradition in new directions in the twentieth century. They responded to the seismic changes associated with modernity, from rising nationalism to new developments in psychology. The international upheaval of two world wars actively shaped the work these writers were producing, but the social and political...
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Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...Introduction - For many centuries, ancient Egypt was seen as the source of wisdom and knowledge, about mathematics as well as other things. There was a long classical Greek tradition to this effect, and in later centuries the indecipherability of the hieroglyphs did nothing to dispel this belief. But since the early nineteenth century, when the deciphering of the Rosetta...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...Introduction - Most people have suffered from influenza (flu) at some time in their lives, so you probably have personal experience or a good idea of the symptoms and progression of the disease. However, influenza is actually one of the world’s most serious diseases. The pandemic of flu that occurred in 1918, immediately following the First World War, is thought to have...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...Introduction - For most athletes the journey to attaining expertise in sport frequently begins with an active childhood and taking an interest in sport from an early age. So what makes us sporty or active? Think back to your own early experiences of physical activity. Who played your first game of catch with you or taught you to ride your bike? The answer to these...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...Introduction - This course considers the growth of human rights and humanitarian law before looking at the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in detail. It will also look at the position of human rights in the UK and the effect of the Human Rights Act 1998. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Law...Human rights and law: Learning outcomes -...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs