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Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...social dimension of scientists' work and how scientists explain and perhaps justify their work to the wider public. Science and society: A career and professional development course, is a free course that explores this further...Scientists throughout the world are increasingly interested in the relationship between science and society. Part of their concern is with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Growing up with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing up with Disability

...working towards the inclusion of disabled children and young adults in social activities and organisations, encouraging friendships and fun. It looks at PLUS from the view of the children, the carers and the families. This material forms part of The Open University course KE312 Working together for children... Growing up with Disability A short introduction to this album....
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Audio 1 hr 6 mins
Hard Choices: How Would You React?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hard Choices: How Would You React?

...social workers have to make in their jobs...[Truth] Would you like to have a go at making the kinds of decisions that social workers responsible for protecting children are routinely involved in? The following case study is based on real life experiences of social workers, but for the purpose of this activity all characters have been fictionalised and details have also...
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Activity 5 mins
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...work] The starting premise is that open methodologies do not assume a reflective person as the originator of knowledge and meaning, but neither do they wholly relinquish the notion of the human, or favour anonymous forces. Central to the approach is a concern with the formation and nature of subjectivities that are set in motion by methods, as well as the social worlds...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...social life. Yet we at CCIG would argue that researchers must go beyond meeting the intensified demand for new methods. Methods are important because what we know is changed by how we know it. Furthermore, the reasons why someone uses a particular method are linked to their wider ends and means; what makes useful knowledge in that specific field. Increasingly, the...
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Article 5 mins
How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?

...Social Care courses and qualifications. Not everyone experiences grief in the same way. Whilst under-researched, there is evidence that neurodivergent people may experience grief, as well as the social practices around death and bereavement, differently from others. This is thought to be related to their neurodivergence – in the differences in how their brains process...
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Article 5 mins
How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...social change (Levine and Levine, 2011). Those working with survivors of conflict, violence or other forms of trauma often make use of the arts as an alternative means of approaching difficult topics or memories. Social prescribing One of the most significant developments related to health, wellbeing and the arts in the last few decades is the idea of ‘social...
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Article 5 mins
Wholly Trinity: Abortion, Art and Activism in Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Wholly Trinity: Abortion, Art and Activism in Ireland

...work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation." (Angela Davis). This short film, produced collaboratively by The Open University, Alliance for Choice and The Array Collective explores the role that artists and creatives played in campaigning for...
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Video 30 mins