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Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...system, workers' rights and civil engineering...Dive deeper into the history of how canals shaped a nation with OpenLearn. For more information on the TV programme, Canals: The Making of a Nation, see the series page and episode guide here. Here, you can find out more about: the canal capitalists the canal workers the canal engineers The canal capitalists [Canal boat...
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Article 5 mins
Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update

...thinking that learns from the failings of the boys’ system. There has undoubtedly been much progress in the women’s game since 2022. Some change has happened quickly, while other changes are still taking time. Without question though a successful defence of the European Championship this summer will be a great help and contribute to even more progress and development....
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Article 5 mins
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...system provide examples of some of the ways in which critical criminology has conceptually approached and researched ‘race’ and ethnicity...Race, ethnicity and crime: The US, Australia and the UK - The relationship between race and ethnicity and crime and criminology is characterised by conflict, dispute and contestation. The focus of explanatory concern for critical...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...system and I think that’s really important. So I’m hoping one of the series I’ll do in the future will be actually about anthropology and looking at people today and the big biological challenges that we face and how we’ve solved them with different cultural solutions. The value of archive I think that the archive is a complete untapped resource. I’m absolutely...
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Video 30 mins
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...think what’s changed since then. MJ: I think the most important thing that’s changed is not in the talks about climate but in the real economy of climate. In Copenhagen countries were being asked to make emissions cuts, which they really didn’t know whether they could do or not. This was particularly true of the developing countries, China and India and others, who...
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Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...think differently about life's dilemmas by taking account of the views of all concerned, especially people experiencing mental distress. It explores ideas and practice in mental health, and will appeal to a wide range of people...Take a new and different look at mental health. This free course, Challenging ideas in mental health, invites you to think differently about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...system at MIT’s Lincoln Lab (Mindell 2008) and this is where she became interested in and learned much about the reliability of software (Spicer 2017), being able to make a previously inoperative radar system actually work. As Hamilton said: “I was and still am very interested in what causes errors and how to avoid them throughout. That was one of my very first...
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Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...think about how we reform the system in other ways that allows us to control those hazards. ON-SCREEN TEXT We asked Sonae for a comment on the issues outlined in the film. This is what they said: ‘In relation to the assertion that the plant has or may have caused ill health to the residents of Kirkby, we draw the following to your attention and ask that you include it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs