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Social care, social work and the law
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care, social work and the law

...system have a massive impact on the lives of social workers, from defining policy and procedure to the actual process of day-to-day working. This album presents an encompassing and engrossing look at the interaction between legal and social teams, and how different professions and groups interact to ensure equality and representation for all members of society. Not only...
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Audio 2 hrs 40 mins
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...think of them, in literate societies at least, as fixed entities. And I think this is really to do with written language. If you think of written English for example, in a single person’s lifetime, it’s very hard to be conscious of any sense of change. But if you look at the written English of earlier periods, then it’s very obvious there has been considerable...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...think it is forensics and crime labs that hold the key to solving crimes, but in real life, cases are rarely straight forward, there is often a high degree of uncertainty, and sometimes it is the verbal evidence from witnesses and victims which we have to rely upon the most. CATRIONA HAVARD I'm Catriona Havard and I'm a lecturer in Psychology, and I'm your other guide....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...system. Research has demonstrated that survivors that come forward to report sexual violence struggle to be seen as credible victims of crime by police officers. Reporting sexual violence is particularly challenging for communities who are targets of state harassment, including poor and working-class black and minority ethnic, queer, transgender and non-binary groups and...
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Article 5 mins
Between humanity and space
Science, Maths & Technology

Between humanity and space

...system! I’ve loved space since I was a kid. As a teenager, I was sure that I was going to become an atmospheric chemist and study Neptune. Then I took a chemistry class … But it turned out that I'm really good at connecting dots and understanding abstractions, which led me to studying the political and cultural aspects of space. Later, I started researching decolonial...
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Article 5 mins
Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?
Science, Maths & Technology

Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?

...systems throughout much of the NHS on Friday was preventable, explains Conor Deane-McKenna...[Highwaymen - Sixteen String Jack, Claude Duval, Tom King and Dick Turpin - celebrate their crimes] Stand and deliver: Your money or your files? In a matter of hours, the NHS was effectively placed on lockdown with computer systems being held ransom and further machines powered...
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Article 5 mins
The law and social work in Scotland
Health, Sports & Psychology

The law and social work in Scotland

...system. The tracks analyse the role of the family in Scottish life in relation to the many voluntary bodies that exist to assist and inform them, and the legal obligations of social workers. Participants from single mothers to solicitors presented their perspectives in a series of frank, informative interviews. This material forms part of The Open University course K207...
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Audio 2 hrs 27 mins
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...think of it actually quite often, maybe once, twice a day sometimes, going back to that feeling that we’re part of this great continuity of life on Earth, and from that, from that interest in geology, I developed a more broad interest in natural history. What inspires me… The programme which I think is enchanting is a radio programme and it’s called Tweet of the...
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Video 20 mins