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FGM prevalence and healthcare planning
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM prevalence and healthcare planning

...working, and accessible services and pathways. The Women and Equalities Commission (2025) have called on the UK government to commission research to develop a timely and accurate system of FGM data collection. Such an evidence-based system gathering both population-level and individual-level data should be applied across the UK nations, and indeed, to go one step further,...
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FGM law and ethics in the UK and Ireland
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM law and ethics in the UK and Ireland

...Working Together to Safeguard Children (2015/2026) Working together to safeguard children - GOV.UK Northern Ireland Department of Health, NI (2018) Multi-agency practice guidelines - Female Genital Mutilation Multi-agency practice guidelines - Female Genital Mutilation. Multi-agency practice guidelines - Female Genital Mutilation | Department of Health Safeguarding Board...
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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...works ­– in order to be understood. [A diagram showing the correlation between average league position and wage expenditure relative to the average for the Premier League and Championship Teams 2003-2012] Figure 1 The football business market: Players and clubs We can observe that clubs compete aggressively to hire players – there is an active transfer market with...
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Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...work of Peter McDougall in the 1970s – an excerpt from which is included in the programme – serves to illustrate much of this negative image. But it is also claimed that this negative image of violence was constructed from outside the city by, among others, media based far away in London/England; it was essentially what others said about Glasgow. Glaswegians knew...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...work. Drugs such as aspirin act at the site of the injury to stop or at least reduce the production of messenger chemicals that stimulate the nerve endings. Another class of drugs, the opiates such as codeine and morphine, act on the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Sometimes, the aspirin-like and codeine/morphine-like drugs are combined into one remedy,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...work hard at refining their specialist subject knowledge. Can ‘anyone’ really teach geography? I don't think so! Follow up your thinking on these issues by doing the tasks in Activity 1. Activity 1 Click 'view document' to read David Lambert on Mapping geography. View document You can re-read Jessica's story by clicking on 'view document' below. View document Click on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...work in more detail. Activity 2: Schizophrenia in the city Timing: 15 minutes Below is the original Faris and Dunham map of Chicago. Where are the most incidents of schizophrenia? What kinds of areas do you think these might be? [A map showing the geographical distribution of schizophrenia rates across Chicago neighbourhoods between 1922 and 1931.] Discussion Faris and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...Working with sensitive topics. Sensitive topic This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course W250 Evidence law...Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the rules for admissibility and presentation of expert evidence describe the duties and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs