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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...children to learn about and campaign on single-use plastic, fast fashion, and carbon dependence. These activities certainly count as ‘doing development’ – but why is it not this work that springs to mind? Development is very diverse and it is done by all sorts of people. So, this week you will start to look at the actual practise of ‘development’, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...centres (Figure 4). In Britain, efforts to provide free school meals for older children were hindered by the same reluctance to interfere in family life. Even after they were given powers to provide school meals in 1906, many local authorities were reluctant to do so and, by 1912, only around one-third of local authorities provided school meals (Dwork, 1987, pp. 93–166,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...researched the role of social workers working with children. I spoke to social workers to find out how abused children behaved and what signs to look out for. I found it so interesting. The job itself sounded better than writing about it. I hadn't realized that it was in my background. My dad was disabled, and my brother suffered from Down's Syndrome. I was familiar with...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...children also begin to suffer seizures, along with changes to mood and behaviour and a decline in speech and motor skills causing increasing difficulties with movement; similar to some forms of dementia in the elderly. However, in addition to the striking dementia-like symptoms, CLN3 patients also begin to suffer heart problems towards the end of their lives. How does a...
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Article 10 mins
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...Research Centre at the University of Stirling. (Source: Kerr et al., 2005) Case study: Julie Hirst (Smoking cessation and pregnant women) I worked for the NHS for 24 years before transferring to Derbyshire County Council in 2013. My work focused on addressing the social factors that impact on people’s health. When I conducted my literature review, I was working for the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
The OU Welcomes Carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The OU Welcomes Carers

...research study illustrates what it can be like to be a carer: ‘You know, it’s just that constant sort of presence that I have to be. A lot of encouraging her to eat, encouraging her to wash and do self-care, all round that kind of thing’. Kubiak et al, 2021 This carer’s account describes how caring can be difficult to plan around and disruptive of everyday life...
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Article 5 mins
Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...children under 5 years of age; Target 3.4: Screening and care for non-communicable diseases; Target 3.8: Universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services; and, Target 3.D: Strengthen the capacity of all countries for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks. 1:...
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Article 15 mins
Sensory augmentation devices
History & The Arts

Sensory augmentation devices

...research programme is experimenting with novel augmentation devices to explore sensory, bodily and cognitive extension. In this interdisciplinary research, philosophy and art combine with various flavours of computing: ubiquitous; wearable; and physical. We take a look at how E-Sense's speculative philosophical research experiments, built on the 1960's work of Paul...
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Video 8 mins