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Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...Open University to talk about this work. Transcript In the presentation, I specifically focused on the imperative to develop the stamina and capacities that could prepare us to address the affective and relational dimensions of decolonising work in higher education. This affective work entails acknowledging, analysing, and accepting responsibility for processing the often...
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...Open Justice Centre and OU Law School students, with law school students across eight universities, collaborated and participated on a project that explored race and policing in the US and the UK. The race and policing project focus was, in part, to explore, analyse, and explain the ways race and racism intersect in public institutions and society more broadly. It has...
African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation
History & The Arts

African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation

...Open University's Religious Studies qualifications. The master's tool will never dismantle the master's house (A. Lorde) To understand the stigmatisation, misrepresentation and demonisation of African Caribbean religions, it is pivotal to develop a cultural consciousness which could look critically at the narrative constructed by the West during centuries of colonisation,...
Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...Open University, suggests that primary sources contain both intentional and unintentional evidence. In our example there is the deliberate message conveyed by the photograph – the pose, demeanour and expression of the women. Then there is the unintended information it conveys about the contemporary interest in women workers. We are told this is one of forty-nine studio...
Owen's Law: the case for written allergen information in every food business
Health, Sports & Psychology

Owen's Law: the case for written allergen information in every food business

...Open University collaborations on health and lived experience For food sector professionals: Food allergies: a public health crisis demanding immediate action (Pivotal Public Policy Forum) Food Standards Agency: allergen guidance for food businesses Making Food Allergies your business podcast series — conversations with allergy customers and food businesses on creating...
Why is FGM practised?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is FGM practised?

...open-access/female-genital-mutilation-a-violation-of-human-rights-35622.html (Accessed 24 October 2025). Gruenbaum, E., Earp, B. & Shweder, R. (2022) ‘Reconsidering the role of patriarchy in upholding female genital modifications: analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial societies’, Int J Impot Res., 35(3), pp.202–211. Available at:
Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?
History & The Arts

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?

...course of narrating the history of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides incorporated many pairs of speeches arguing opposing points of view that reveal how politicians sought to put down, outmaneuver and even humiliate their rivals. Any student of Greek history, like me, cannot but admire the historian’s unparalleled understanding of the invisible web that every ambitious,...
What does Marine LePen plan for France?
Society, Politics & Law

What does Marine LePen plan for France?

...course, already happens anyway). A nationalist shade of green Under the heading of sustainability, Le Pen focuses on replacing the EU’s common agricultural policy with a French version and encouraging local chains of supply and consumption as a practical form of environmentalism. To address France’s massive power generation deficit, she intends to keep nuclear...