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Mind the Medicine Gap
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mind the Medicine Gap

...of The Open University investigates the idea that the patent system is too blunt an instrument to serve the interests of both pharmaceutical companies and the poor like Lemlem. There are smart solutions though; ways for everybody to win. Big questions. Fascinating answers... Mind the Medicine Gap An insight to why people in poor countries have less access to medicines....
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Audio 19 mins
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...think critically, balance professional judgment and respond ethically to uncertainty – skills that are essential across all areas of social work...This free course, Exploring critical social work practice, will support you to question assumptions and navigate complexity as a critical social worker. Through practice scenarios and reflective activities, you will be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...system, in terms of mood and changes? I mean, think of all the crazy things that- can we potentially steepen that return angle? Now, what does that allow me to do? Train more intense, and be able to train in more density. LINDSEY ANDERSON: So they had a hard training day today. But we still have another training day tomorrow. So we need them to start their recovery...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...think, for an awful lot of people who were around in 1979 when that came out, because it changed the game so radically, it was so new for everybody. I was only eight at the time, but I was still blown away by what I was seeing on the screen, so that was a massive, very powerful memory for me in terms of a natural history series. Environmental issues: What series inspired...
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Video 30 mins
Why not ‘World Religions’?
History & The Arts

Why not ‘World Religions’?

...think about what it means? What makes something a World Religion? Why do we group some religions – almost always the same five – in this way? In this short course, you’re going to do just that. You’ll look at the potential issues with classifying religions like this, and why scholars are increasingly moving away from talking about World Religions. You’ll even...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...think it’s best just to stop and just say the delegate is speaking too fast.” Miles herself doesn’t find that useful because people have a natural pace, and someone asked to slow down is likely to pick up speed again. The alternative is to précis. “You have to be quick on the uptake. It’s not just language skills in this job, it’s being quick-brained and...
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Article 10 mins
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...think one of the really exciting things about drama on Radio 4, because of its scale, is you think OK yes we can do the entire works of Zola and we’ll do it, we’ll strip it across a week. So we had 27 episodes of Emil Zola: Blood, Sex and Money. And I can’t think of many other places in the known universe where you could do something of that scale. Including...
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Audio 45 mins
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...think about globalisation. Jot down the words and phrases that come to mind when you hear the term 'globalisation'. What is globalisation? Globalisation is not so much a thing, as a series of overlapping, connected and interdependent processes. As a term, globalisation is an attempt to capture the profound social, cultural, political and economic changes ushered in by new...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs