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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...public and private life. Despite the sophistication of her themes, Bryce’s poems are accessible. Her work is also surreal and wry. Famed for her musicality, Bryce often scatters rhymes throughout her poems so they are ‘more heard rather than seen’. She considers poetry to be close to song and is an engaging reader of her own work, as in this video where she reads...
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Learning from human remains: Seianti's skeleton
History & The Arts

Learning from human remains: Seianti's skeleton

...health, lifestyle and status. Medical artists and forensic scientists help complete the picture, by reconstructing her face, using anatomical science. This material forms part of The Open University course A219 Exploring the classical world... Learning from human remains: Seianti’s skeleton An audio introduction to this album. The sarcophagus An introduction to the most...
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Audio 33 mins
Supply chains: healthcare
Science, Maths & Technology

Supply chains: healthcare

...Health Service requires an astonishing number of products to be manufactured, delivered and routinely managed. What happens behind the scenes to ensure the systems function smoothly? This album focuses on the different roles of B.Braun, a large supplier of medical equipment which also provides customised services for patients. In this time-critical setting, their supply...
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Video 50 mins
Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?
Society, Politics & Law

Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?

...public. It has access to accurate, contemporary threat information and has a means of translating this threat information into effective, proportionate protective security measures commensurate with the level of risk they face. Learning from elsewhere – bollards are not enough Given the nature of the areas being defended, authorities have had to consider issues that...
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Researching cycling in the US & the UK
Society, Politics & Law

Researching cycling in the US & the UK

...public space in London and the way that the growth of cycling is changing the way in which we build a city, because if people are doing different things then we need to build different spaces for them to do them in. And one of the big things about London is that if you say public space, people will look at you somewhat quizzically and then assume that you’re talking...
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Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...public debates and policy-making processes. It introduces the idea that the descriptions (measurements, dates and representations) and understandings (concepts, explanations, theories and interpretations) developed by social scientists contribute to actually making the social worlds we live in. In other words, social science helps to make visible (or describe) social...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Arendt
History & The Arts

Arendt

...public life in terms of conscience and personal morality, the other seeking to reduce it to clashes of economic or sectional interests. Her big idea was that politics, or the 'political public space', has its own values and principles, and that they need to be kept distinct both from economics and morality. Her position was in part a reaction to the twentieth century...
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Libraries NI learning hub
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Libraries NI learning hub

This OpenLearn hub, prepared in collaboration with Libraries NI, features a collection of free online resources designed to support mental health, wellbeing and learning and development.
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