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Silent Invisible Women: Deaf and Muslim in Australia
History & The Arts

Silent Invisible Women: Deaf and Muslim in Australia

...family or community, either, because of your hearing loss and in the wider world you face multiple communication and language barriers. Where do you fit then? How do you manage your multiple identities? This is what I sought to find out. My name is Ayah and I am an Australian Lebanese-Muslim woman with a hearing impairment. I was born and raised in Australia, and growing...
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Video 5 mins
Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey

...family, colleagues, or fellow students. Cindy mentions her study buddy from a face-to-face meetup, while Ida uses her family as a sounding board. Independent learning with support While you’ll have your support network, independent study remains a significant aspect of OU learning. Here, your tutor becomes your cornerstone. Successful design students pay close attention...
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How are social workers portrayed in the media?
Languages

How are social workers portrayed in the media?

...family courts (I am grateful to social worker Vicki Ayris for this point). Sometimes being a social worker didn’t seem to be relevant to the story at all (18% of instances): And now, the social worker shares her bed with two men and a woman, with Amelia’s children even calling her girlfriend their ‘other mother’. [Daily Mail, 14/06/19] Of course, there’s a bias...
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Article 5 mins
From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...family members, the relative ease of self employment in the UK, as well as what they perceived to be a more multiculturalist society where ethnic differences were more welcomed than they felt in their European home countries. However, as we spoke with our research participants in spring 2016, the foremost reason why our interview partners had moved to the UK was economic....
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Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...family, and anything in his background that is discussed here that you think might have contributed to his future career a writer. CHARLOTTE LILLEY So we're at Hardy's Cottage, the home of the novelist Thomas Hardy. And it was where he was born. So he lived in a very small country cottage with his family, his four siblings and his mother and father. And he lived here from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...family members (Flicek, 1992; Barkley, 1997), are often used to provide an assessment of functional impairment, which is a requirement for ADHD diagnosis in addition to the core symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. The problems with social interaction, as well as the core symptoms of ADHD, can have a substantial impact on family members, especially...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...family in a living room. The family consists of: a young-middle-aged woman with long, dark hair in jeans, a shirt and jumper; a middle-aged man with short hair and a short beard wearing a brown shirt and beige trousers; on the woman’s lap, a girl of about 5-6 years wearing jeans and a jumper, on the man’s lap, a baby of about 12 months, kneeling next to the man, a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...family is seen as the best, and therefore if that's the case there must be particular kinds of gender relationships that gets laid on the top of that family because that family presupposes husband and wife and children living together etc. So in social constructionism then we're wanting to move through those six elements, but key as well and this is perhaps the seventh...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr