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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.
The story of a female postal worker
Society, Politics & Law

The story of a female postal worker

...health and safety and how to ‘prep a frame’. You are then left to your own devices. “We come in each day and break down our mail. It comes to us in boxes and we tie these down into bundles and bags to assist with our own delivery.” Casual workers/temps are treated differently within the workforce, they are trained less than permanent workers as well. Postal...
Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'
Society, Politics & Law

Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'

...health care or other support for lengthening periods. Increasing racism and hostility towards minority ethnic and religious groups are part of making life unbearable for some of those who have fled persecution. A hostile environment In 2012, home secretary Theresa May set out to “create a really hostile environment for illegal migrants”. Beginning in 2015, new...
Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement

...public sector since the GFA do not stand up to scrutiny. Rather a successively weak private sector and a historical legacy of large staple industries seems a better explanation. Figure 1 below displays the relative performance of Gross National Product (GDP) per head in Northern Ireland since 1998. What appears to be common to all conflicts is that economic inequality is...
'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...public sphere and highlight racial disparities within the criminal justice systems in both the UK and the US. One response (by politicians, governments, the media, police forces) is to blame the individual officers involved in the incident, labelling them as ‘bad apples’, i.e. a few individual police officers deemed to be solely responsible for these so-called...
Participation Now
Society, Politics & Law

Participation Now

Find out how new forms of participatory public engagement are working to reshape contemporary life. What is Participation Now? How to use these pages How to get involved Use the filtering tools below to explore the collection.
Changing approaches to heritage
Society, Politics & Law

Changing approaches to heritage

...public memory... Changing approaches to heritage An introduction to this album. What is world heritage? Dr Rodney Harrison of The Open University explores what is meant by world heritage and introduces the Lake District case study. Lake District: conflicting values Illustrates some of the conflicting sets of heritage values competing for prominence in the Lake District....
Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...public’s understanding of the brain, its disorders and our diversity as humans. Sacks wrote what he called ‘romantic science’. Not romantic in the sense of romantic love, but romantic in the sense of the romantic poets, who used narrative to describe the subtleties of human nature, often in contrast to the enlightenment values of quantification and rationalism. In...