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Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...open it? TINA [07.01] Yeah, in a minute, because I want to show you, show you what to do with them. So you need to make sure you’ve got it on the right way to start with yeah. So on the top there’s a teat so you need to actually remove the air from that before you actually put it on yeah, ok and then you have to put it onto a penis that’s erect obviously…………...
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...Open University call ‘legacy interviews’, long-form interviews, in which we talk to key players round the world on energy at some length about what got them interested in it and we probe solutions and problems a little more deeply. The idea is that they will remain on a special website with the Open University for scholars in the future, wondering, ‘What were they...
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...opened, and a figure glided in. The portmanteau dropped from my arms, and my heart's blood was chilled. If an apparition of the dead were possible, (and that possibility I could not deny,) this was such an apparition. A hue, yellowish and livid; bones, uncovered with flesh; eyes, ghastly, hollow, woe-begone, and fixed in an agony of wonder upon me; and locks, matted and...
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. [Nicole McLean]I first joined the railway in 2013 at the age of 18. I had successfully attained a hospitality steward job through an agency based in Inverness. Later that year, I became a permanent Scotrail staff member and was excited to remain part of the team I had come to value over the last few months. Having...
Volunteering in the community
Education & Development

Volunteering in the community

...Open University offers colleagues to fulfil public commitments. Emily’s advice to anyone thinking about becoming a magistrate? “Do it! You’re playing a big role in your community and a valuable role in the judiciary. If you find it doesn’t work for you or it’s not what you expected, you have the option to leave!” Find out more and search for magistrate...
Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...open displays of anxiety, anger or moodiness Social withdrawal, always doing things on their own, becoming isolated Lack of self-care or a tendency to display risky behaviours in public A sense of hopelessness or feeling overwhelmed An individual who displays more than one could lead the observer to suspect that the pilot may be at risk of deteriorating mental health...
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...open to challenge, uncertainty and discomfort. Similarly, the framework for ‘equity-centred transformative research’ outlined by Venkateswaran et al. (2023) compels researchers to develop a critical consciousness, to understand how their own position sits within dominant frameworks of understanding and values, including in relation to research practice. Secondly, by...
Sut daeth jazz i Gymru
History & The Arts

Sut daeth jazz i Gymru

...opened in profusion, offering ‘jazz’ and ‘blues’ tuition, plus lessons in the Charleston, Turkey Trot, Chicago Maze and Swansea’s Marina Saunter with women’s bands supplying the new music. While Wales danced towards the Second World War, large dance orchestras evolved from the combos, propelling a new generation of young women leading the bands into the swing...