History & The Arts
World Poetry Day
21st March is World Poetry Day. Take a look at a range of powerful poems in our poetry prescription tool, view our videos and try a range of free courses...The videos
Digital & Computing
National Coding Week
National Coding Week is here and this year's theme focuses on AI - so delve into our FREE courses, articles and video content on all things to do with coding and artificial intelligence.
Science, Maths & Technology
Seven projects that show we are in a golden age of engineering
...open in 2020), will provide an east-west link across London, transform the way commuters travel in and out of the city and the South East and increase rail capacity in the capital by around 10%. The new 200-metre-long trains (the length of two football pitches!) will allow space for 1,500 passengers. With over 100 kilometres of new train lines and ten new stations, the...
Society, Politics & Law
Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation
...Open University’s Centre for Policing Research and Learning, this relates to victims of rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO). The impact of trauma in the workplace Trauma can present in several ways in the workplace. Employees with trauma may struggle with anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While this can impact on their general welfare...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
...Open University. She’ll be tuning into the Tokyo Paralympics, but with mixed feelings, as she explains...“I’m mad about disability sport and love learning new things”, says Yasmin who’s just completed her first year of a Sports, Fitness and Coaching degree with the OU. Having left school after her GCSEs, she began a career working in design. Always a keen...
Nature & Environment
What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
...Open University’s Open Justice Centre19 has combined forces with the United Nations to do just that through supporting the global Education for Justice20 (E4J) project. E4J promotes efforts to improve anti-corruption education21 in universities throughout the world with the aim of supporting the next generation of professionals to better understand and tackle the...
History & The Arts
Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world
...Open University speaks to experts from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and looks at ways in which art historians are responding to a changing world...Transcript ‘Not a lot of people meet the term Art History, or History of Art, at school. It’s not something that’s widely taught’, admits Sarah Victoria Turner, the current Director of the Paul...
Education & Development
Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
...Open University. It has even given her ideas of ways of working and initiatives that could be implemented in her own team. Catherine’s volunteering doesn’t come with a significant time commitment; she estimates she spends a couple of hours every couple of months preparing for and attending meetings, with some additional activities on an ad hoc basis. The main...