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What is Open Thanatology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Open Thanatology?

Open Thanatology is the Open University’s interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to death-related topics. The Centre builds on the long-standing death and dying research at the University with a renewed energy to promote these fields of research and education. The Open Thanatology Hub showcases education we have created based on our research and flag-ship modules...
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Opening up history
History & The Arts

Opening up history

Delve into our Opening up history series: a collection of interviews with historians from The Open University. Read about their research ranging from the political culture in 18th century Ireland to anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications.
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Open Hip Hop
History & The Arts

Open Hip Hop

...Open University Hip Hop Committee is to provide a Hip Hop focused platform for academics, practitioners, students and interested parties to come together to discuss, present, research and share their work in a managed safe environment...WHY: Following two very successful biannual conferences, feedback from our delegates and supporters have led us to conclude that this...
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Open door to success
Education & Development

Open door to success

...Open University to offer free training tools designed to help people find a job, advance their career or grow their business...Find out more about The Open University's courses and qualifications [DWP and OpenLearn logos] Through partnerships with leading providers of online education, the DWP are promoting resources that will benefit learners everywhere. They have...
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Open sanctuary hub
Education & Development

Open sanctuary hub

This hub is a space of welcome for refugees, people in the asylum system and the wider community. It offers free courses covering a range of subjects.
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Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship

How do we define being a citizen? In what ways has the idea of citizenship expanded? At a time when tumultuous world events, from Israel to India, call for a deeper understanding of the purpose and power of citizenship... Citizenship after Orientalism Professor Engin Isin explains why there’s a need to start altering the traditional views that have been held about the...
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Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...source, historians must subject it to rigorous interrogation...[film] Family snapshots, posed photos, cine film and even home videos provide a wealth of primary source material for historians. In recent years a number of important TV documentaries have drawn heavily upon amateur film and photographic archives. Among these are The British Empire in Colour (Carlton),...
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The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...Open University's Carbon Calculator was developed for the OU module Environment: journeys through a changing world and is designed to measure the personal consumption-based carbon footprint of a UK inhabitant (if you live outside the UK, see further resources). This calculator starts with all the greenhouse gases emitted in supplying what the UK consumes, including the...
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