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Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...profile actors have worn black to demonstrate solidarity and highlight the work of anti-violence activists on the red carpet as their plus ones. The Time’s Up movement aims to translate this awareness into practical support for all survivors, including a legal fund for working-class women to fight for equality and justice. Given all this airtime, various commentators...
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How is the internet helping ensure parliamentary accountability in Bangladesh?
Digital & Computing

How is the internet helping ensure parliamentary accountability in Bangladesh?

...profiles and two Twitter accounts belonging to MPs are verified. Most MPs therefore are not active on popular social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter while many citizens complain that MPs are not reachable via the official contact phone or email provided on the Bangladesh Parliament website. Blogger Chandra Bindu wrote on Facebook: অনেক অনেক...
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How inclusive is women’s football?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How inclusive is women’s football?

...profile case of former England player, Eniola Aluko (of Black heritage and pictured below), is significant as it also powerfully reveals the way that accusations of racism can be denied and resisted. [Eniola Aluko on stage during the opening day of Web Summit 2019 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal.] In 2016, Aluko disclosed multiple occasions where she had been...
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Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves

...profile and infrastructure across Northern Ireland would mean the disbandment of the Home Service battalions of The Royal Irish Regiment. Sensitive handling was paramount. There was a steadfast and perhaps hopeful logic to it all, but there was a keen awareness too of decades of turmoil, pain and raw emotion across all communities. Not least among the courageous men and...
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Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment
Education & Development

Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment

...profile of an OU Associate Lecturer is and consider instead who it could be. This would then allow us to benefit from the pool of incredible talent that exists across the HE sector and in professional practice. This research has also uncovered the need for institutional-wide change to structural and cultural ingrained practices and processes. This article first appeared...
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The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...style with how you were brought up. [Described image] Figure 1 Evie and her grandmother sharing memories and learning Look at this photograph of Evie and her Grandmother enjoying a song together. Evie’s favourite songs are ‘Pat-a-cake,’ ‘Round and round the garden like a teddy bear’, ‘This little piggy’, ‘Rock-a-bye baby’ and ‘One, two, buckle my...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...et al., 2016), and can be explained by the use of a lower case and capital letter: Small ‘p’ politics refers to any form of social organisation where matters are concerned with getting or using power within a particular group e.g., there is plenty of ‘office’ politics within, and often between, sports organisations. Big ‘P’ Politics often focuses on...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...styles and genres, both vocal and instrumental. The piece featured in the video belongs to a genre called khyal , which is the most commonly heard vocal genre in the tradition (although not by any means the only one). Khyal performances can vary widely in style, textual content, accompaniment and other aspects. (Khyal is a word of Persian origin, meaning literally...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs