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Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...social life and the norms establish how people should behave, while institutional development is about changing the rules. Meanings help people make sense of their lives and values indicate what is good or bad, while institutional development brings in new values. The big players are individuals and organisations with the power to shape social life, while institutional...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Week 9 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 9 Civilisations: The debate

...works he discusses are forms of installation art. Is this a medium that is well suited to convey a relationship between art and social or political events? Join in our discussion hub on Civilisations by posting a response in the Comments section below before 10.30pm on Thursday 26th April 2017 (select 'save' to send your comment). One of the academic consultants on the...
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Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...working to share pragmatic solutions to social issues in London through events, projects and public forums. https://blamuk.org/ Black Thrive Black Thrive is a partnership between communities, statutory organisations, the voluntary, and private sector working to reduce the inequality and injustices experienced by Black people in mental health services in the London Borough...
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Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities

...social and cognitive stimulation) is a framework, which we have been exploring in our Ageing Well Public Talks series, which has now been running for five years. As part of The Open University and The Parks Trust Milton Keynes’ collaboration, we have been focussing on how greenspaces are crucial resources to help us into ageing well. It is well noted that greenspaces...
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Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...social workers working with children who have particular emotional or behavioural needs. The theory behind such methods stems from a branch of psychology called ‘behaviourism’. [Described image] Figure 3 Example of a reward chart During the past 30 years, behaviourism has had many forms but in simple terms it is based on the idea that children’s (and adults’)...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...social aspect. I have four close friends I worked with at Timex, sadly I lost one really close pal last year. But me and all my friends from Timex still go out and socialise, my daughters have been brought up with them. It was a sad day when I walked through the Timex gates on Harrison Road for the last time. “I think Dundee felt the loss of Timex, and of other...
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Astrobiology from the ground up
Science, Maths & Technology

Astrobiology from the ground up

...work on environment and international development and astrobiology...[A sacred site in the semi-arid desert of Rajasthan, India] A sacred site in the semi-arid desert of Rajasthan, India Shonil’s research engages with several key environmental concerns: agriculture and food security, biodiversity conservation, climate change and sustainability. In AstrobiologyOU, he is...
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Innovative efforts to raise wages
Money & Business

Innovative efforts to raise wages

...social democratic solutions of the past up to the task of addressing today’s wage stagnation? Indeed, declining pay speaks to the need for fresh forms of national and international worker rights that link economic growth to higher pay. Thomas Kochan discusses these ideas in his article America doesn’t just ‘need a raise,’ we need a new national norm for wage...
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