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Self-managed abortion in the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

Self-managed abortion in the UK

...Open University researchers highlighted several factors which it may be useful and important for health professionals and those seeking abortion to be aware of. The factors identified relate to how someone self-managing abortion might be best supported; as well as the importance of effective communication about pain and other effects of the medications that might be...
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Article 5 mins
Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...openness. Bibliography Asad, T. (1973) ‘Introduction’ in Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. Barofsky, R. (2020) ‘Rethinking Ethnography: A Study in Public Anthropology’, Anthropology Today, 36(5): pp. 1-2. Harvey, G. (2020) ‘Trans-Indigenous Festivals: Democracy and Emplacement’ in Pike, S.M., Salomonsen, J. and...
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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...Open University, is interviewed by Roger Harrabin for 'Stories of Change'...[Tamsin Edwards] Tamsin Edwards is a Lecturer in Environmental Sciences at the Open University. She uses computer models to study climate change and its impacts, particularly how confident we can be in model predictions. She blogs for PLOS at All Models are Wrong and on Twitter she is @flimsin. ©...
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Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...course is part of a collection of Open University short courses for teachers and student teachers...Teaching secondary mathematics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand why people learn mathematics and how it can be taught effectively know what it means to act and be mathematical change teaching so that students are...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...open it in a new window or tab. That way you can easily return to where you’ve come from without having to use the back button in your browser. You can do this by holding down the ‘CTRL’ key (or CMD on a Mac) and left clicking the mouse button; or right click and ‘open in new tab’. Go to Week 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This free course was...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...opened as a museum in 1819, to display the court's art collection The astronomical observatory opened in 1790, one of only four of its kind in Europe. Goya was not an intellectual, but his portraiture of the 1790's, often shows the props and facial expressions, of what has been termed ‘The Light of Reason’. Was he sympathetic to these people ? His portrait of Antonio...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...Open University's Psychology courses Maeve Higgins once set herself a task. The Irish-born comedian wanted to see what life would be like if she stopped laughing at things that weren’t funny. Turns out it wasn’t as easy as she thought. “It was so effing hard,” she says. “Laughter is a lubricant and is expected, and it’s really hard not to do it.” It’s...
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Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...Open University course, T229 Mechanical engineering: heat and flow....Engineering: environmental fluids: Introduction - We all have constant daily experience of fluids, from breathing air to taking showers and checking weather forecasts, which means that we all have a great deal of intuitive knowledge about how they behave; this course will build on that knowledge. The...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs