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Introducing environment
Nature & Environment

Introducing environment

...Course Y161 Introducing environment... Introducing environment A short introduction to the album. Unseen impacts Find out more about the consequences of the way you shop. Shopping by car Short car journeys are the most environmentally damaging, yet a quarter of journeys are less than 2 miles. Shopping by bus The more people replace car journeys with buses, the more eco-...
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Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...course specifically in Religious Studies. We hope that these insights, as well as our further analysis, will help ‘feed forward’ to making both A227 and new material currently being written for the Open University more effective and accessible for all students. Our human beliefs and practices have profound impacts on how we interact with shared global challenges such...
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Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...courses Background There is no figure so mystified as the sex worker. She is either a whore who must be punished, a fallen woman (and it is always believed to be just women who are sex workers) who must be saved, or a public health hazard who must be stopped to save society from her immorality and disease. However, for several decades sex workers have sought to emphasise...
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How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...free. I lived principally in the country as a girl, and passed a considerable time in Scotland. I made occasional visits to the more picturesque parts; but my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee. Blank and dreary on retrospection I call them; they were not so to me then. They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant...
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Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
Education & Development

Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...course: Becoming an ethical researcher: Introduction and guidance: What is a badged course? - OpenLearn - Open University You should be able to justify the research decisions you make. Utilising these resources will guide your ethical judgements when writing your proposal and ultimately when designing and conducting your research study. The Ethical Guidelines for...
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The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...course there are some things that Darwin couldn't quite explain - for example, why people cover their mouths or the top of their heads when startled, although he did note that "the hand being placed over the mouth or on some part of the head has been observed in so many races of man that it must have some natural origin". It's possible that placing the hand over the mouth...
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Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...course was open but that which our country has taken.’ Such principles can also be used to justify violent opposition to oppressive regimes, as in the decision of the leading Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer to support the planned assassination of Hitler, and in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. However, because Christians take their inspiration from...
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Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets

...free in a modern home but if it is put in a home with a leaky roof or a dirt floor, the whole thing might behave differently. Then there is the issue of unintended consequences that come from the wide-spread adoption of a new technology. What happens if the sophisticated materials in the toilets end up in open waste dumps? Once there is a company selling these toilets are...
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