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Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...fictional format, such as The Blue Lamp (1950) dealing with juvenile delinquency, reflecting a contemporary moral panic, and later Sapphire (1959) which dealt with issues of race and immigration following the Notting Hill riots of the previous year. (These issues were addressed again later, but from the point of view of the immigrant community in films such as the Stephen...
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Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic

...learning has a powerful role to play.Various international and inter-governmental bodies have reported the need to build the capacity of NGOs and CSOs (Civil Society Organisations), particularly at more local levels. For instance, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, which is a UN-created body that coordinates humanitarian interventions, noted that capacity-strengthening...
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The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London
Education & Development

The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London

...learned during lockdown Hopes for the future The researchers are currently halfway through data collection of twenty-five participants and this project is a pilot to explore issues which are important to children and young people in a view to turn this into a larger project. The lives of Black children and young people are often underrepresented so this is why it is...
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Why I created a podcast to celebrate the OU’s BME community
Education & Development

Why I created a podcast to celebrate the OU’s BME community

...learned so far, and her hopes for the project’s future...When I started my job at The Open University, I was intrigued by the various staff networks available. There seemed to exist these autonomous, staff-led spaces where individuals with shared experiences could meet to support, motivate, listen to, and be heard by each other. The network for Black and Minority Ethnic...
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‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds
Education & Development

‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds

...learning practices. We worked with a sample of nine students who self-identified as British South Asian from Pakistani or Indian backgrounds using visual narratives, semi-structured online interviews and two group workshops. We analysed quantitative data on students’ assessment outcomes and awards to understand the individual student journeys and collective trends....
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Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK
Education & Development

Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK

...learning while noting parenting is lot more than this. I was born and lived my first twenty-eight years of life in a refugee camp on the outskirts of a mid-western city in India. I still have deep connections with the city and my family in India. I have been teaching in universities for the past thirty-three years. These experiences must have influenced my parental...
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Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?

...learn more Finnish and move on in his career, but he is struggling to get the opportunity to do so. His case is also typical because there are many African men in the Finnish cleaning industry who are over-educated for the job they are doing. Kifibin moved to Finland in 2010 to study on an international Master’s programme in the natural sciences. He had completed his...
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Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...learning and experiences. Other research, such as Olson and Fazio (2002), found that these often reflect childhood learning and experiences, including the culture we were brought up in. Learning and judgement from, and experiences with, family, friends, school, society, media, all contribute to self-limiting beliefs. Conner and Barrett (2005) suggest that we continuously...
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