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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 ......
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
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...
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection (CELCIS) has produced guidance on Developing Practice for Care Records in Scotland. The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has a useful resource about social work recording. Research in Practice has a practice tool for completing social work chronologies on their website. Social Care Wales has created...
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...
Harry Potter and Parenting
Education & Development

Harry Potter and Parenting

...children’s literature. Getting parents out of the way is often a necessary precursor that enables child protagonists to embark on adventures without adult interference. But in J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter series, the young hero’s parentless state is more than a mere plot device: it’s the emotional engine that drives the stories. As former Open University lecturer...
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...