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Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...Scotland, studied at the Glasgow School of Art and at the Royal College of Art in London. Early work for Ford led to appointments in Britain, Japan, USA, Australia and Italy, among other countries. Since 1990 he has been commissioned to design for several manufacturers, including Mazda, Range Rover, Volvo, Nissan and Aston Martin. For Aston Martin, Callum designed the DB7...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...Scotland and Northern Ireland have different legal systems, even if many of the offences overlap), then it has changed in important ways. New offences are sometimes added: over 3500 during the Labour governments between 1997 and 2010 (see, for example, Slack (2010) or Morris (2008)). Sometimes, established offences are deleted or downgraded: it is no longer possible to be...
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...Audrey Linkman Figure 93 Three Young Men 'horsing about' on the sands', Anon. © National Gallery of Scotland Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Scotland. For linguists it matters what sounds people actually produce, so they often represent spoken language using a system called the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Sequences of speech transcribed in IPA are enclosed in slash brackets, / /, or square brackets, [ ], to distinguish them from ordinary text. Many of the letters of the IPA have more or less the...
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Island authorities. This may (or may not) be compounded by the creation of Regional Assemblies within England. Other EU countries and countries outside the EU will work to different systems again. To attempt to describe all these local variations would be very difficult, if not impossible. This section is therefore based on the...
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...Scotland; Bequeathed by George Watson through Art Fund, 2015; https://www.creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc/ 4.0/ deed.en The Death of Actaeon; National Gallery, London, photographer: Carlo Bollo / Alamy Stock Photo Text Activities 1, 13 and 17: 1.1–4, McCarter, Stephanie; Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Penguin 2022 Activity 3: Marchella Ward, The World that came from a...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...Scotland Flag/image: OpenClipart-Vectors/Pixabay; England Flag: image Pixabay; Wales Flag image: Clker-Free-Vector-Images/Pixabay Section 2,1 images: bloodua/Getty Images; fdmsd8yea/Getty Images Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first...
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...Scotland (for a conference), to Georgetown, Guyana (for research), and to Naples, Italy (for Christmas with my family). I wanted to calculate an approximate value of the carbon dioxide emissions resulting from my travels. To quantify this impact, I used an ‘Air Travel Calculator’ that I found online. I was surprised to discover that my three journeys produced similar...