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Appreciative Inquiry
Education & Development

Appreciative Inquiry

...course, An Appreciative Approach to Inquiry. In the session, we explored what we mean by Appreciative Inquiry, focusing particularly on the generative possibilities of starting from a positive core instead of problem-focused inquiries. We explored how a different language of inquiry, involving immersing, imagining, innovating and re-immersing, changes how we feel and...
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Welfare, crime and society
Society, Politics & Law

Welfare, crime and society

...course DD208 Welfare, crime and society... Welfare, crime and society A short introduction to the album. Surveillance: safe shopping Surveillance and security in the White Rose Shopping Centre in Leeds. Surveillance: perceptions of security Private and public, formal and informal forms of security in the White Rose Shopping Centre. Gated communities: who and why?...
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Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...course it is sometimes better and sometimes worse. It is hard to know if it is more hotel or more station; perhaps it is a mixture of each which defies analysis; but in its well-studied composition you pass, as it were, from your car to your room, as from one chamber to another. This is putting the fact poetically; but, prosaically, the intervening steps are few at the...
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Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...Open University students to sum up what wellbeing meant to them, some used words such as ‘contentment’, ‘calmness’ and ‘happiness’ that indicated they thought wellbeing was focused on aspects of mental health. However, other students provided words that showed they thought wellbeing was living a life ‘free from illness’ and other terms focused on physical...
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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...open to a range of perspectives will give you much more opportunities to develop your skills in presenting arguments and discussing their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, the question should be interesting – for you, of course, but also for those who will read your dissertation or watch your final presentation. The ‘ten words’ technique and exercise. Developing a...
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Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Setting the scene On 12 August 2022, Scotland’s highest circulation broadsheet newspaper, The Herald, carried a headline exclaiming ‘Nurses set to strike for first time in their history’. While the words made an eye-catching headline, they failed to recognise, and in effect denied, the history of industrial...
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How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?
History & The Arts

How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?

...opened up to foreign investment and tourism was encouraged. Both were key for the revolution’s continuation. Now, at the time of Castro’s death, Cuba bears little resemblance to the country he took over in 1959. The excesses of 1950s Cuba have been replaced by a more equalitarian and proud nation. After such a long, extraordinary life, it is inevitable the Castro’s...
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Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship

...open enough to capture diverse types of political action from equally diverse political actors. Analyses of sexual, multicultural, and feminist citizenship, among many others, point to the importance of this concept for understanding and engaging with contemporary politics. It is therefore no surprise that citizenship has been at the core of much scholarly work from...
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