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Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...community centers, playgroups, churches, and private homes, I wanted to explore three questions with them: How they make sense of the diversity they encounter on a daily basis in British and German cities, how they do mothering locally and transnationally, and how they navigate various nationalized, classed, and gendered ideologies of motherhood. A key aim of the research...
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How OpenLearn uses third-party content

...communities, or professional writers working the context of a learning brief. They are usually, although not exclusively, working within the Creative Commons community. These trusted repositories include blogs from the LSE and Oxford, SciDevNet, Wellcome Trust's Mosaic website, Languages On The Move, GlobalVoice and The Conversation. The OpenLearn editorial team will...
What is Diwali?
History & The Arts

What is Diwali?

...communities take different central days for the focus of their festivities. [Rama and Sita, with Lakshmana returning to Ayodhya, image: Unknown1600/1700 ]Rama and Sita, with Lakshmana returning to Ayodhya, artist unknown, 17th-18th century, National Museum, New Delhi, Accession Number: 51.65/74 Perhaps the most dominant story associated with Diwali is a celebration of...
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...community succession that appeared to be directly related to trophic state or nutrient status. They described a series of stages: ‘oligotrophic — mesotrophic — eutrophic — hypertrophic’ where oligotrophic meant ‘low in nutrients’, mesotrophic ‘with intermediate nutrient concentration’, eutrophic ‘high in nutrients’ and hypertrophic ‘very high in...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...Communication networks are used to transfer valuable and confidential information for a variety of purposes. As a consequence, they attract the attention of people who intend to steal or misuse information, or to disrupt or destroy the systems storing or communicating it. In this unit you will study some of the main issues involved in achieving a reasonable degree of...
Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?
Nature & Environment

Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?

...communities. Several reforms could improve this situation: Fishing quotas should be publicly owned. As fish stocks are public resources, quotas should be owned by the government but granted to individuals as time-limited use rights. Fishing quotas should be reallocated. As the small-scale sector is disadvantaged, reallocation is needed for fairness and to protect...
Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...communities. Making sudden changes to what access they have to services within those communities would not be about migration control. It would be about displacement. 2. Human rights must be for everyone In the UK today, many human rights have become dependent upon documentation and status and this has mostly become socially acceptable. In the latest review of the UK by...
History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration
Society, Politics & Law

History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration

...communities were not offered enough by way of assistance to integrate the new arrivals. The anti-immigrant feeling spread, as did racism towards ethnic minorities in the UK. In 1967, the National Front was created specifically in opposition to non-white immigration into the UK. Then, in February 1968 the Commonwealth Immigrants Act introduced the rule that entry would be...