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The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911
Society, Politics & Law

The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911

...account of the strike can be found in The Singer Strike Clydebank, 1911, (1989) Glasgow Labour History Workshop, Clydebank District Libraries. Glasgow Digital Library, Red Clydeside, Timeline of events, The Singer strike 1911. Primary Sources used in the preparation of this part of the publication were; Clydebank and Renfrew Press Engineering Forward Glasgow evening News...
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Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...accounts such as Scott of the Antarctic (1948) and Dunkirk (1958). Working at Ealing, Basil Dearden developed the ‘social problem film’ within a fictional format, such as The Blue Lamp (1950) dealing with juvenile delinquency, reflecting a contemporary moral panic, and later Sapphire (1959) which dealt with issues of race and immigration following the Notting Hill...
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Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...accountable to those being researched (Barnes, 2003). Nor, perhaps is it surprising if such research seeks to involve diverse voices from the outset and as key participants throughout. But what about a less obviously participatory approach, such as a quantitative study of earring wearing in North London (I made that up)? What has that got to do with equality, diversity...
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Article 15 mins
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...accounts of brutal murders or assaults I wonder how anyone can do such things to another human being. Then again I think some people know exactly how the other feels and that is why they do unspeakable things. One only has to look at crimes against humanity on the wider scale to realise that some people just enjoy killing and maiming others. It is comforting for us to...
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Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...account about ‘the environment’ that is raised by the images in Figure 1. They are a particular view of a particular environment from a particular perspective: mostly a western and northern hemisphere perspective. Do they convey your understanding of what is an environment? If you live in a desert landscape or in a highly polluted, highly urbanised city, you may not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...accounts of current solutions. The aims of this unit are to describe some factors that affect the security of networks and data communications, and their implications for users; and to introduce some basic types of security service and their components, and indicate how these are applied in networks. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 3 study in Computing &...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...account so far has explained the mechanisms that stop sounds becoming ‘jumbled’ and reminds us that, subjectively, we listen to just one of the disentangled sounds. It seems obvious that they would need disentangling to become intelligible, but why do we then attend to only one? That question leads us into the early history of attention research. One of the first...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...account of the views of all concerned, especially people experiencing mental distress. It explores ideas and practice in mental health, and will appeal to a wide range of people...Take a new and different look at mental health. This free course, Challenging ideas in mental health, invites you to think differently about life's dilemmas by taking account of the views of all...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs