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Working for health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working for health

...care. Health is increasingly ‘everybody’s business’. This album will provide you with insight into the debates that surround human health, and will enable you to appreciate and review your own and alternative standpoints and values in this important area of study. This material forms part of The Open University course K203 Working for health... Working for health A...
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Audio 2 hrs 33 mins
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...care. The Trust Project was an EU-funded project that was run from the University of Central Lancashire here in the UK, and they asked people in different parts of the world what matters to you in research ethics. And these four points came up again and again and again. People said we want respect, honesty, fairness, and care, and not just here and there, but all the way...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?
Society, Politics & Law

Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?

...care, taxes, abortion, and environment. I combined these data with detailed information on more than 130 corruption cases among House and Senate members over three-and-half decades. The cases vary in scope and seriousness, from ‘in-house’ transgressions, such as Representative Irving Whalley expropriating salaries of 17 staff members for his own use, to criminal...
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Article 5 mins
Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...care of our existing trees. Part of the problem is that we simply do not know enough about the trees that we have, this is particularly true of urban trees. In fact we know less about trees in towns and cities than we do about those in the wider countryside, despite many urban areas having a higher tree canopy cover than much of the countryside. [Poplar trees in autumn...
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Article 10 mins
The machine that is still changing the world
Science, Maths & Technology

The machine that is still changing the world

...careful platform designs where components are shared across many ranges of cars, leading to economies of scale in the component manufacture and distribution. Historically each manufacturer would produce platforms for each continental market. Today platform design is common across all continents, leading to truly global products. Often these products are designed by...
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Article 10 mins
Why is childbirth a medical procedure?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is childbirth a medical procedure?

...care professionals insist on claiming that a medicalised hospital birth is still the safest option. Defensive medicine There has been an alarming increase in litigation against the NHS over the last few years. In fact, 70 per cent of all litigation involves obstetric cases (Johanson et al., 2002). Not surprisingly, defensive medical practice has been identified as another...
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Article 10 mins
Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...caring for these heroes is important. Getting involved: tree data Caring for our trees starts with raising awareness. In the UK and the Republic of Ireland, anyone can get involved in this activity. For my Open University study ‘Environment: responding to change’ (module SDT306), I took part in interactive learning and data collection through the citizen science...
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Article 10 mins
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...adults keep up? The entertainment and interactivity of tablets and smartphones has made them attractive to children. Touch-screen interfaces mean that digital technologies are now accessible for children as young as 3. But do children find digital technologies exciting for reasons beyond simple entertainment? The amount of digital technology available to my young son is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs