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Creating bridges: The importance of sharing research findings with the public
Health, Sports & Psychology

Creating bridges: The importance of sharing research findings with the public

...resources. The importance of peer reviewed publications to the scientific community is undisputed, as they support the development of evidence base and facilitate knowledge exchange between scientific communities across borders. [student looking at laptop holding book doing research] We must, however, also look at the direct impact that our work has on the wider public....
Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...Open University, gives us an overview of his current projects...Transcript © ​ The Open University Transcript Joe Smith Most of my time at the moment is taken up with three research projects, the first being Quiet Sustainability. We’re trying to work out why it is that so many people in post-socialist countries, Poland and the Czech Republic in our case study, are...
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don’t miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...Education (ITE) course. Finally, it might be thought of as a type of dialogue or prose, a particular type of conversation or a writing style that captures your personal views and relates them to evidence you have collected from elsewhere. Before considering the nature of reflection and the theoretical ideas that underpin it, it is worth considering why reflective practice...
World-Changing Women: Emily Davies
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Emily Davies

...education was fundamental in improving a woman's place in society and strived for equality. Read her story here... Emily Davies England 1860 - 1921 Higher Education [Emily Davies image] Emily Davies portrait by Rudolph Lehmann, 1880 In mid nineteenth-century England the world of higher education, like many others, was closed to women. Many people opposed the idea of...
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...Open University course L185 English for academic purposes online...How to be a critical reader: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: consider the importance of examining attitudes to texts understand the organisation of argument texts distinguish between facts and opinions in texts examine hedging as a technique used by writers to express...
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Social care, social work and the law
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care, social work and the law

...Open University course K269 Social care, social work and the law (England and Wales)... Social care, social work and the law A short introduction to this album. Social workers and the law The legal implications surrounding social work are varied and intricate. Stewart Vernon defines and highlights the implications of training and the punitive aspects of the law. Children...
PodMag May 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag May 2016

...Open University...Get your highlighters ready, it’s revision time! In the May edition of the PodMag, Karen interviews Dr Georgina Blakeley, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies and Chair of DD102, Helen Clough, Learning and Teaching Librarian, and Jacqueline Baxter talks to three students about their hot tips for preparing for EMAs and exams. Select...