2,335 search results
I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 3
Nature & Environment

I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 3

...family and his disabled daughter, Heidi, Charlie is fast learning that if you want to protect the rainforest you need to include the local people. He goes to spend time with one of his neighbours, a Wacheperi shaman called Don Alberto, who treats sick people with traditional plants and hallucinogenic medicines. He then heads across the border to Brazil. In a vast...
View video I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 3
Video 5 mins
Small Data: Summer petrol prices
Money & Business

Small Data: Summer petrol prices

...families will be heading off soon on summer holidays. But how has the cost of petrol changed over the last ten years?...[Tourist attraction sign pointing to a forest] How much will it cost to drive to a tourist spot? Are we nearly there yet? Every August, families around the UK pile into the car and head out on day trips and holidays (or "staycations" as nobody calls them...
View article Small Data: Summer petrol prices
Article 5 mins
Hope in a changing climate
Nature & Environment

Hope in a changing climate

...Family, a success story from China's Loess Plateau. Hope in a Changing Climate, is a new documentary co-produced by The Open University and EEMP for BBC World, with support from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), The Open University, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and The World Bank... Hope...
View audio Hope in a changing climate
Audio 56 mins
LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference

...families. Although a disproportionately large percentage of LGBTQ youth do ‘run away’ from home, as evidence by the population-based research that has established that LGBTQ youth are at a significantly higher risk of homelessness (see for example Morton and colleagues’ 2018 paper). A recent estimate provided in the prestigious journal, Pediatrics, reported that...
View article LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference
Article 5 mins
Recording women's experiences and resilience during Covid-19
Society, Politics & Law

Recording women's experiences and resilience during Covid-19

...History courses [banner of the EIS, purple background with EIS in white edged in red]Founded in 1847, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) is the oldest teaching union in the world. As the largest teaching union in Scotland, the EIS represents more than 60,000 members across all sectors of Education. The video, ‘Recording Women’s Experiences and Resilience...
View video Recording women's experiences and resilience during Covid-19
Video 5 mins
What's creative about creative writing?
History & The Arts

What's creative about creative writing?

...history and historical fiction Jutta Schettler, Jaime Bulloch & Jeremy Munday on the art and craft of translation Xiaolu Guo on cultural translation and more Jonny Geller on the role of the literary agent Andrew Cowan on creativity and creative writing Andrew Cowan, novelist and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, discusses the notion of...
View audio What's creative about creative writing?
Audio 30 mins
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...history of children’s mental health. Until the middle of the twentieth century, following the Second World War and the formation of government welfare services, children’s mental health was not recognised as the significant issue it is today. However, some children will have experienced mental health problems, even if these were left undiagnosed, and you will be...
View course Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...family, and they were often very bored. I often used to wonder what the impact was on them in the long term. I only have to listen to a song from that era to be transported back, remembering all of those children. This experience made me develop a lifelong interest in children’s health and well-being. And then when I moved into education, I was asked to teach a child...
View course Physical and mental health for young children
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs