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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...work part time. Social scientists suggested a number of explanations for this: economic changes, bringing with them more, and different, employment opportunities increases in educational opportunities for girls the re-emergence of feminism in the 1960s. Figure 2 Mary Wollstonecraft – an eighteenth century feminist and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Methods in Motion: A view from a train
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: A view from a train

...Social Psychology, investigates the history of movement in Physics, and considers what it means for Social Science...[A child observes the world through a window of a moving train] The key question to answer when thinking about method is ‘how do we know?’ But what has the idea of ‘being in motion’ got to do with knowledge and how we know it? In this blog I will...
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Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City

...works with complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty. While John Tomaney finds this a learned and literate book rich in provocative metaphors and examples, the implications of today’s political and economic context, including the issue of inequality, upon its ethics of the city are underexplored...[Denver from the sky] The question of how we should live in the city is the...
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Surplus Value
Society, Politics & Law

Surplus Value

...work liberates’) and is a 1:1 replica of a sign that was stolen from Auschwitz. It was initiated by an artist and cultural organisation and encourages people to participate through a special event. Suplus Value is global in orientation and concerned with anti-discrimination, equality and social justice, democracy, politics and representation and peace. It was launched...
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Article 5 mins
Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion
Money & Business

Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion

...work see Guillaume et al., 2014 and Otaye-Ebede, Priola and Yerby, 2017). While concepts such as diversity, cultural diversity and diversity management have initially been studied within the confines of employment and large organisations, more recently attention has been directed to ‘diverse’ entrepreneurship and, in particular, to migrant entrepreneurs and their...
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The Who Are We? project
Society, Politics & Law

The Who Are We? project

...work together to develop new avenues for exchange and influence...[Who Are We?] During March 2017, The Open University, in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts, The University of Warwick and Loughborough University organized a free six-day cross-platform event, spanning the visual arts, film, photography, design, architecture, the spoken and written word as well as live...
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Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...work for Social Bite. It'll help with your problems. It'll give me a bank account and things like that, trying to get my passport. JOHN BROWN: When I first became homeless, I was 16. I met a girl and made [INAUDIBLE] with her. I had a child, got married, and then fell out with her, and ended back on the street again. JOE HART: I never had anywhere to stay, unless it was...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...social media. At the very least, turning off your notifications and sleeping with your phone in another room, or on aeroplane mode, might be enough to see a positive change. For example, a recent study found that restricting smartphone use in the bedroom improved sleep quality, and increased happiness and quality of life. If you are up for more of a challenge, try taking...
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Article 10 mins