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Black and Minority Ethnic Network Podcasts - series 2
Education & Development

Black and Minority Ethnic Network Podcasts - series 2

...research and projects, plus covers the work happening within the institution in relation to race and ethnicity...Anita Pilgrim Katherine talks to Anita about the intersection of BME and LGBTQI identities. Transcript Many years ago, somebody saying to me, oh, where are you from? And I was like, well, I was born in Scotland. I'm from Scotland. And as he went off into the...
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...research, where adults develop narratives to better understand key points of their learning lives. You will plan and carry out a brief, informal interview with a colleague, and your colleague will interview you, on themes of learning and work. To complete this OpenLearn course you will write a short draft of the key points of the interview and reflect on your own learning...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...children with autism treat objects and people: some insight into autism in infancy from research in home movies’, in McGregor, E., Núñez, M., Cebula, K. and Gómez, J. C. (eds) Autism: An integrated view from neuroscience, clinical, and intervention research, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, pp. 170–92. National Autistic Society (n.d.) Autism facts and history...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics
Society, Politics & Law

'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics

...research and experience as a community and youth work practitioner to give us the real experiences of Black young people and the justice system...[handcuffs] Official government figures continually inform us that a disproportionate and increasing number of Black males, including those aged 18 and under, are being stopped and searched by the police and imprisoned....
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...Centre for Education (ACE) (2004) ‘Laws to protect children with SEN “in conflict”’, Bulletin no. 121, October, p. 4. Armstrong, D. (2003) Experiences of Special Education: Re-evaluating Policy and Practice Through Life Stories, London: Routledge Falmer. Aspis, S. (2004) ‘Why exams and tests do not help disabled and non-disabled children learn in the same...
Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...research centre and the first of these confirms separate research in June and again this month, that murderous levels of heat and humidity could affect many millions if there are no steps to drastically reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming and climate change. But this time the European researchers warn in the journal Scientific Reports that even...
Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs
History & The Arts

Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs

...researching her own sequel, children’s author Julia Donaldson discovered that Lear wrote – but never completed – his own follow-up. In this fragment the cat falls out of a tree and the “elegant fowl” goes demented with grief – treading the characteristically fine line between joy and melancholy in Lear’s writing. Edward Lear – the 20th child of a bankrupt...
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...Centre for Policing Research and Learning. QUESTION What first got you involved or interested in stakeholder management? PAUL WALLEY My interest is first provoked when I reviewed the progress of an IT project. The project didn’t seem to be going very well. And it became apparent quite quickly that one of the main issues was that of managing the stakeholders in the...