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Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...Open University to talk about this work. Transcript In the presentation, I specifically focused on the imperative to develop the stamina and capacities that could prepare us to address the affective and relational dimensions of decolonising work in higher education. This affective work entails acknowledging, analysing, and accepting responsibility for processing the often...
Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
Education & Development

Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK

...Open University's Social Sciences courses and qualifications Differences There are some important differences between policing in the US and the UK (referring to England and Wales exclusively as they have a particular legislative and governance context). There are some stark differences in the prevalence of guns/firearms among the general public, the number of police...
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...Open Justice Centre and OU Law School students, with law school students across eight universities, collaborated and participated on a project that explored race and policing in the US and the UK. The race and policing project focus was, in part, to explore, analyse, and explain the ways race and racism intersect in public institutions and society more broadly. It has...
African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation
History & The Arts

African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation

...Open University's Religious Studies qualifications. The master's tool will never dismantle the master's house (A. Lorde) To understand the stigmatisation, misrepresentation and demonisation of African Caribbean religions, it is pivotal to develop a cultural consciousness which could look critically at the narrative constructed by the West during centuries of colonisation,...
Ramadan: What do you need to know?
Education & Development

Ramadan: What do you need to know?

...Open Quran with pots of tea during Ramadan.] So, when is Ramadan? In 2026, Ramadan begins on 17th February. Muslims follow the lunar calendar so the exact start and end dates depend on the sighting of the moon. The festival of Eid-ul-Fitr follows Ramadan and will take place around 19th March. What is Ramadan? Ramadan is the name of the ninth month of the Islamic calendar....
Owen's Law: the case for written allergen information in every food business
Health, Sports & Psychology

Owen's Law: the case for written allergen information in every food business

...Open University collaborations on health and lived experience For food sector professionals: Food allergies: a public health crisis demanding immediate action (Pivotal Public Policy Forum) Food Standards Agency: allergen guidance for food businesses Making Food Allergies your business podcast series — conversations with allergy customers and food businesses on creating...
What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...Open University's Language courses and qualifications. Germany has discovered a new social type that is causing grief in modern diverse societies: the “Integrationsverweigerer;” literally someone who refuses to integrate, a “Verweigerer” is a “conscientious objector” or a “refusenik.” The principal characteristic of a “Integrationsverweigerer” is that...
The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s

...Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Herring women and girls in inter-war Scotland During the 1930s and 1940s a transient group of Scottish women travelled to Great Yarmouth, East Anglia, following the migration of herring shoals down the North Sea. In many of the documents and photographs that are available from the time, these herring women are...