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Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
Education & Development

Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection

...Centre has worked in partnership with The Freedom Law Clinic (FLC), a not-for-profit company providing pro bono research and advice on appeals for people who have been convicted of very serious criminal offences but who are maintaining their innocence. Over the summer of 2020, FLC recognised that students needed additional virtual experiential learning opportunities and...
Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...children's books? Professor Natalia Kucirkova explores...In the pre-COVID-19 era, children’s personalised books used to be a niche market. Far from their early prototypes that merely had the child’s name stuck on the book cover, today’s personalised books feature entire families – including pets – and claim to boost children’s self-esteem and ......
Why school is bad for us - an inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Rix
Miscellaneous

Why school is bad for us - an inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Rix

...children could fail at school due to an obsession with individual assessment, literacy skills and the right kind of behaviour, according to an OU academic. Jonathan Rix, Professor of Participation and Learning Support in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies at The Open University, will deliver his inaugural lecture on Why school is bad for us – lessons...
Take away Science
History & The Arts

Take away Science

...Research Stories In this podcast we find out about fascinating research projects throughout the UK. Patricia Ragazzon chats to researchers from the University of Nottingham about innovations in nanotubes and David Smith finds out about how we might be able to grow a cure for malaria. We also talk to David Gamblin, an Associate Lecturer, about what he enjoys about working...
Audio 3 hrs 50 mins
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
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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....