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The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...Scotland for years, but shots for shots’ sake were new to the rest of the UK. Also new were members of bar staff coming to tables to sell the shots, which they sometimes dispensed from guns or holsters. I remember waiting excitedly in the queue outside the Leeds branch of a new bar called Vodka Revolution. We drank shot after shot of flavoured vodka that night, from...
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Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...Scotland and then I went into television in a small way with Look with Sir Peter Scott and the famous Heinz Sielmann Becker film which was a… I didn’t used to call it the watercooler moment, but people talked about the fact that you could see inside a woodpecker’s nest. Now these days you’d see inside every nest that exists, but at that time it shattered people,...
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The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...Scotland and is based in the University of Glasgow; Moira Burgess a pre-eminent bibliographer of Glasgow and analyst of Glasgow in fiction; Jimmy Boyle a graduate of Barlinnie Prison's famous Special Unit. All are experienced OU tutors. Activity 1 Listen to the audio files. You may find it helpful to listen to the recordings a second time and take notes. The problem with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...Scotland revealed that families with a disabled adult are nearly twice as likely to be in poverty as others (Kenway et al., 2015). A factor contributing to the risk of poverty that disabled people face is the extra costs they incur in most areas of their everyday life due to their additional needs. Experiences of poverty can also vary depending on a person’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...Scotland, 2011, p. 630) Among its recommendations, the inquiry said ‘fingerprint evidence should be recognised as opinion evidence, not fact’ (p. 741). Shirley McKie received a full personal apology from Strathclyde Police Chief Constable Stephen House in April 2012, more than 14 years after the murder of Marion Ross. Ross’s murder has never been solved. Activity 6...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...Scotland region. Activity 1 Listen to the audio file. You may find it helpful to listen to the recording a second time and take some notes using the techniques that are described by the OU tutors. Note: You will hear references to TMAs. This is an acronym for Tutor Marked Assignments. These are formal assessments associated with Open University courses. Note taking part 1...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...Scotland, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, or The Arts Council (ROI). The Association of British Orchestras (ABO) administers the Sirens Fund, which awards grants to support the performance of historical women composers. Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy also awards grants to support the programming of orchestral work by women in the US and internationally. You might also...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...Scotland reveal the existence of several different tetrapod groups (Atlas, pp. 82-83). Some of these were still fully aquatic, but others, such as the superficially lizard-like Westlothiana and the salamander-like Balanerpeton, had probably made the transition to a semi-aquatic life. Life in the water was hazardous, with intense competition for food, and one of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs