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Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...analysis as to how I have developed from being a manual worker (bus driver), to a social work practitioner and onto my current academic post as a university lecturer in social work. Charting my passion for social justice Since my teenage years I have had a passion for social justice. In the early 1970s I sat with my mother watching a documentary on ‘battered wives’....
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Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...data areas who would be at the forefront of using some of these tools-- collaboration tools, messaging tools, those sorts of things. And now that has to be everybody because that's the way that we're communicating most of the time. So the real shift is in the way that we communicate and the tools we use to do it. And when I talk about communication, that could be a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...analysis of data, understanding the behaviour of economic institutions such as companies and households, and analysing economic processes. It also seeks to show how all of these economic techniques can be used to build up a rich understanding of innovation and economic change. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...Innovation, markets and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...Analysis of youth policy and its growing preoccupation with risk helps in seeing the close relationship between our understandings of young people and their lives, and the priorities of policies directed towards them. Usually, these initiatives seem to involve persuading young people to improve their ability to overcome the risks through education and training, or...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...data from 70,403 young people suggests that reading enjoyment is at its lowest level since 2005 (Cole et al., 2022). It declines with age and less than half of the 8 to 18 year olds surveyed reported enjoying it (47.8%). More disturbingly still, the pre-existing gaps between boys and girls and between those on free school meals (FSM) and others, appear to have been...
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Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned
Society, Politics & Law

Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned

...data science and fiscal policy modelling branch at HM Treasury. Trailer Watch the trailer below for the seminar, Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned. Transcript Learning outcomes After exploring the seminar material, you will be able to identify key trends in public finances after the global financial crisis and the pandemic as well...
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Five smart technologies helping the visually impaired
Society, Politics & Law

Five smart technologies helping the visually impaired

...data from the social network FourSquare, guidance from Global Position System (GPS) satellites, and navigation through Google Maps to direct users from point to point in the city using turn by turn navigation. A number of other companies have developed software in this area which operates similar to the turn by turn driving directions that GPS offers car users. Transcript...
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Make your clothes count
Nature & Environment

Make your clothes count

...Action Plan (SCAP). Leading clothing retailers, charities and textile collectors/recyclers have signed up to the SCAP 2020 Commitment and pledged to reduce the environmental footprint of clothing across its lifecycle. Data taken from: Valuing our clothes – The true cost of how we design, use and dispose of clothing in the UK Benefits of Re-use Case Study: Clothing...
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