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Introducing Health Sciences: COPD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Health Sciences: COPD

...introduction to this album Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder Doctors and sufferers discuss COPD and the nature of the disease. Living with COPD Real life stories of people living with COPD, focusing on a support group based in Sheffield. Respiratory Clinic A look at the two tests available for examining COPD. Pulmonary Rehabilitation How COPD can be managed. Helping...
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Audio 28 mins
Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...project is quite an unusual one for an academic. It doesn’t involve designing and conducting experiments or interviews, but it does include several different kinds of research. It fairly rarely involves me writing in academic language, but it does draw on academic theory. It doesn’t require much in the way of funding, but it manages to reach a lot of people. In terms...
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Article 5 mins
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...introduction of T levels, combined with a hotchpotch of piecemeal initiatives to conceal the lack of a strategy. But there are important areas that were largely ignored. First, how is the economy going to develop robust trade links outside of the single market? Things may look rosy at the moment because of low exchange rate, but this is not sustainable. Second, the...
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Article 5 mins
Care before profit: working as a cleaner in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Care before profit: working as a cleaner in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic

...Project]Jacky was working as a cleaner in a private care home during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was interviewed at her home by Suki Sangha from the Workers’ Stories Project in July 2022 and the extracts in this article derive from that interview. You can access the interview from the audio link below. Jacky initially shared her story of work during the early stages of...
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Article 5 mins
Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity
Money & Business

Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity

...manage. We ask some questions about the challenges it faces to remain successful in a competitive marketplace...[Oxfam at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit] Oxfam at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit Starting a new job is often daunting, but can you imagine what it must be like taking over at Oxfam? How do you manage an organisation with 5000 paid staff,...
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Article 10 mins
Critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critical social work practice

...management techniques within the social work field. Material is taken from The Open University Course K315 Critical social work practice... Critical social work practice A short introduction to this album. What is critical practice? A look at the meaning of critical practice, the views of service users, and the professional power of social workers. How useful is critical...
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Audio 2 hrs 49 mins
Belfast - healthy city
Society, Politics & Law

Belfast - healthy city

...Project. The aim was to get as many institutions as possible to make health central to their planning and to give the diverse communities of Belfast a real say in their future. What were the challenges they faced? What solutions did they evolve? In this album Healthy Cities founder member Ilona Kickbusch and Belfast health promotion professionals Joan Devlin, David...
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Audio 40 mins
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...Introduction The OpenLearn platform is home to around 1,000 free courses, thousands of videos, articles and educational activities and serves as the OER output of The Open University (UK). When launched in 2006 supported by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, its aim was to release OER as a by-product of the formal taught curriculum, which in turn...
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Article 10 mins