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Impossible Peace 2: Much more than an archive
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Much more than an archive

...work-in-progress. [A selection of photographs from our meetings.]A selection of photographs from the meetings. [A selection of photographs from our meetings.]A selection of photographs from the meetings. Download the archive (PDF, 37MB)[Image link to download of full archive in a PDF file] Acknowledgements With thanks to project photographer Marie Therese Hurson, Stills...
A Support Net: Can you help someone in need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A Support Net: Can you help someone in need?

...work support, and student services. Additionally, below is a list of useful resources and helplines: Mind's information and support pages Call the Samaritans on 116 123, for free or look at the other ways of contacting them. The NHS Mental health - live well pages The NHS overcoming addiction pages This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection'...
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...working in sport’ (McGinty-Minister, Whitehead and Swettenham (2023) and answer the following questions: What sort of behaviour do women report as experiencing at an interpersonal level? What reasons did women give for avoiding reporting sexism? As you listen to the audio and look at the poster, reflect on why gender is a contemporary issue and why it is of relevance to...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...work. You will be able to identify innovation in a wide variety of designed objects and evaluate the impact of this innovation...This free course looks at the process of design, from assessing the complexity of design as an activity to exposing the difficulty in making general conclusions about how designers work. You will be able to identify innovation in a wide variety...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...social consciousness, and are each sensible of being a centre, with a metropolitan destiny; but the strange thing about Liverpool and the like English towns is that they are without any social consciousness. Their meek millions are socially unborn; they can come into the world only in London, and in their prenatal obscurity they remain folded in a dreamless silence, while...
Non-existent countries
Society, Politics & Law

Non-existent countries

...Social World’ where Butcher and Morris (2015) explore the role of power in defining place, mobility and migration and the cultural significance of the nation as home. This is further explored in Conway and Staples's (2015) examination of symbols of nationalism and the creation of ‘Homelands’. Butcher, M and Morris, A (2015) ‘Mapping Home’ in Murji, K (ed)...
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...working with computers. Most of us probably feel confident we know what they are, and what they can do. In this section we'll examine the fundamental concept of the digital computer as an interpreted automatic formal system and consider the implications of this for computational theories of mind. At the end, I'll try to draw some conclusions and set the scene for the...
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...work. The complexity that people bring to design problems is introduced, along with some basic methods of dealing with such complexity...This free course, An introduction to design engineering, looks at the way in which engineers use ideas and approaches from the discipline of design thinking to inform their work. The complexity that people bring to design problems is...