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Rollercoaster design
Science, Maths & Technology

Rollercoaster design

...seekers. This short album visits Alton Towers theme park in England, and explores the part that mathematicians play in rollercoaster design, using mathematical models to calculate the ride's accelerations and forces to obtain the desired experience. This material forms part of The Open University course MST121 Using mathematics... Rollercoaster design A short introduction...
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Audio 7 mins
Discussion Hub - Exodus: Our Journey to Europe
Society, Politics & Law

Discussion Hub - Exodus: Our Journey to Europe

Share your views on the OU/BBC co-production 'Exodus: Our Journey to Europe'. ...[illustration of people debating] What did you think of the series 'Exodus: Our Journey to Europe' and the refugees' stories in the series? Have your say using the comment section below.
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Activity 10 mins
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...asylum seekers, where you do get a dominant view that asylum seekers are a problem. But what's interesting is to see how the terminology has changed, and that whether or not you talk about people as refugees or asylum seekers may have different kinds of meanings. If people get called economic migrants that's become something that is ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration
Society, Politics & Law

Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration

...refugees. The programme generated a great deal of interest and involved the participation of a large and diverse audience. Dip into the programme and discover more about this, more about Counterpoints Arts, and more about a similar collaboration between the OU and the Migration Museum Project...[Who Are We banner] The referendum about EU membership in 2016 in Britain has...
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Article 5 mins
Dive deeper with these extra articles
Society, Politics & Law

Dive deeper with these extra articles

...Refugees Welcome artwork] Co-Director of Counterpoints Arts, (a company engaging with refugee and migrant experiences through arts and cultural programmes) Áine O’Brien writes about the Who Are We? project for Run Riot: Aine O'Brien unpacks the intentions of Who Are We From The Open University Research website: Interrogating identity and citizenship through art Here on...
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Article 5 mins
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...asylum, the development of professional practices in the twentieth century and, more importantly, one might say, is the increasing voice of those who have experienced these services, And I think the way professionals use the terms is quite static and fixed even though people with mental health problems would like different terminologies to be used about their identities....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...asylum seekers (the largest group currently in detention), stateless persons, children and people who arrived in the UK as children and it even played a role in the Windrush scandal. It’s now time for arbitrary immigration detention to stop, along with the assumption that people can be excluded from British society unless they can prove otherwise. 5. Hold open...
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Article 5 mins
The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication
Society, Politics & Law

The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication

...refugees, strangers) who walk on it. To put aside the complexities of that work (which was originally related to the Palestinian plight) what this carpet aims to do is to give a platform where the strangers who come ‘home’ change this home (the floor) by leaving a trace from their (home)land. The New Union Flag also started also from cutouts from a doormat printed in...
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Article 5 mins