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Supporting women musicians in the workplace
History & The Arts

Supporting women musicians in the workplace

...become more flexible and inclusive, adopting new policies, or putting staff networks in place. In this article, you will first consider how setting up a mentoring or shadowing scheme can help to support women’s career development. You will then consider how you can better support parents and careers and those going through menopause and perimenopause. The power of...
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Article 5 mins
Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms
OpenLearn Ireland

Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms

...becomes an intimate experience and private music activities in the home turn into social music activities in a public space. How do online fandoms differ from the music fandoms of the past? Music fandoms have their origins in the mid-19th century when a cult of celebrity grew around figures like Hungarian composer Franz Liszt and Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. However,...
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The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...become interested in such a gathering? This is because the Magh Mela case study can be set within the context of contemporary crowd psychology, which has been working to understand the relationship between crowds and collective identity. Modern crowd research is considered to have started with French polymath and political conservative Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd: Study...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...becoming an essential tool in data representation and research communication. In this free course, The power of infographics in research dissemination, you will explore when and how infographics can be useful to your work. You will look at some good and bad practice in making and using infographics, and will learn how to evaluate infographics that appear to be presenting...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Digital innovation in social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital innovation in social care and social work

...becomes part of care. For example, Northern Ireland and Scotland have had a more established relationship between ‘health’ and ‘social’ care (an integrated approach) and so they can make decisions that affect health and social care altogether. England and Wales have traditionally had more separation between ‘healthcare’ and ‘social care’ and both...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...become available if EU boats are given more restricted access to the UK EEZ are hake, herring, mackerel and saith. Landings of these fish in Scotland were valued at £129.7m: the comparable figure for England was £7.6m. Thus, Scottish production already substantially exceeds that in England in those fish stocks likely to freed up by EU exit. This could see the Scottish...
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...become associated with criminality and deviance and identified, labelled and pathologised as figures of menace, danger and threat. Understanding and challenging the ways in which this criminalisation leads to the over-policing, over-incarceration and under-protection of particular populations lie at the heart of critical criminological arguments. The indication of a...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...students sometimes try to approach research? I can give you an example from something I’ve done in the last few years where I have a, a few cases of research, mainly based on interviews, where I asked people living in London who weren’t British to tell me their sort of life stories, their contacts with languages in their lifetimes and also how they lived their lives...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs