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Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...working with the situation in which you are interested. You are aware of how a systems approach differs from other approaches commonly used in scientific analysis, sociology or business management. In order to get the most out of this course, you need to be familiar with, or at least not worried by, simple mathematics, and recognise some related concepts such as chance...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator
Health, Sports & Psychology

From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator

...work, studying, housework and being a mum. Childhood I was talking to my mum about my childhood, and discussing how busy our lives were. Like me, she was a single mum who was working full-time and studying. She explained how every teacher described me as being ‘a lovely, kind and well-behaved little girl’ but how I was ‘not an academic’. School was a massive...
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Article 5 mins
EPQs: help and tips
Education & Development

EPQs: help and tips

...work independently on a topic that really interests you or that you think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level qualification. These articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ...Find out more about The Open University’s Open degree qualification. This series of articles includes help and tips from members of AstrobiologyOU, a research group...
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Article 5 mins
Entrepreneurial Lives
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial Lives

...work demands, running businesses from home, the role of friends and family members, lifestyle, resource acquisition, and the fascinating, messy realities of entrepreneurs are themes explored in this series by Dr. MariaLaura Di Domenico of The Open University... Invisible Boundaries: When Home is the Business MariaLaura examines the challenges of running a home-based...
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Audio 1 hr 17 mins
Wales: Culture and identity
Society, Politics & Law

Wales: Culture and identity

...work, and political and cultural representation in Wales. This material forms part of The Open University course D172 Contemporary Wales... Rugby and Welsh identity Gareth Williams, professor of history at the University of Glamorgan, discusses issues in Welsh life, paying particular attention to rugby. Place and belonging in Wales Graham Day connects place, with the...
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Audio 1 hr 20 mins
Neurodivergence and the menopause: a personal journey
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodivergence and the menopause: a personal journey

...work and then in charities across adult services. I also taught for The Open University and delighted in the variety of my work, which included teaching, practice tutor roles and delivering residential schools, which were large, a real thrill and great fun. Gradually, despite enjoying my various work roles, I began to be a bit more worried about everything, doubting...
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Article 5 mins
David Bowie and science fiction
History & The Arts

David Bowie and science fiction

...work, in song titles such as ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ and ‘Life On Mars?’ He is a key figure in the relationship between science fiction and pop music, most obviously for two pieces of work. First is his 1969 single ‘Space Oddity’, a response both to Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the US Apollo programme, which reached its climax...
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Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...working in the civil service in 1950s British Guiana, to settle in Manchester? And who could have predicted the impact she would have as she worked with the African Caribbean communities there?...Early life and career Betty Luckham (then Thompson) was born in 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (since February 1966, the independent Republic of Guyana). The Thompsons were a...
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Video 10 mins