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Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...based on the legacies of a colonial worldview, i.e. that what we have classified as religious beliefs and practices have used criteria drawn from white Anglo-European Protestantism. Several members of the Religious Studies department at The Open University have been leaders in forwarding this discussion within the discipline (e.g. Cotter and Robertson 2016). So, when it...
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Article 25 mins
Festival of Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Festival of Psychology

...based treatments aim to increase the amount of dopamine in the brain to reduce movement symptoms. Whilst they are effective for many people with PD, long-term use is associated with substantial side effects. In the absence of a cure for PD, a major challenge is to find interventions that do not rely on drug-based treatment, to help maintain movement performance. A series...
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Video 2 hrs
Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?

...based upon the social value that everyone should be able to read. One hundred and fifty years ago, this was not the case, and the ability to read had more to do with your socio-economic advantages than your neurological ability. Similarly, a diagnosis of autism requires presenting with issues within social interactions; this reflects the cultural value that suggests a...
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Article 10 mins
What is Law?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Law?

...based legal system from the civil law systems that have been adopted by many European countries, where all law is made by the law-making body and written down in a series of ‘codes’. Second, ‘common law’ or ‘case law’ refers to decisions made in our courts. This is a completely separate source of English and Welsh law from the laws made by the UK or Welsh...
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Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...la cassa) first and say what you want. You pay and are given a receipt (uno scontrino), which you then give to the person serving, repeating your order. In fact there is often a sign (un cartello) telling you to go the cash desk first, pay the cashier (il cassiere / la cassiera) and get a till receipt. The sign might say something like Si prega di fare lo scontrino alla...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Bringing up problems at work (without making things worse)
Education & Development

Bringing up problems at work (without making things worse)

...De Felice and Garretson (2021) define a workplace problem as ‘a state of affairs that affects one or more people negatively, and which requires some type of action’. In other words, it is something that can plausibly be solved, as opposed to a general complaint about a state of affairs. For example: For example: ‘This rain is so annoying!’ = a complaint, as there...
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John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...based on it. We have no way of knowing what The Duchess of Malfi looked like in its first performances, beyond assuming that it was shorter than the text that has descended to us. What is interesting is that the title page of the 1623 quarto draws such a clear distinction between the play in performance and the play as a text to be read and savoured in the study...John...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?

...based on the fact that, at that time, Croatia managed to handle the refugee crisis alone. So it should know what to do now. There was a stark reminder of just how physically present the remnants of war are in Croatia when the incoming migrants were warned to stay on specified routes into the country. If they strayed, they risked running into landmines still thought to be...
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