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Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe
Nature & Environment

Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe

...project will be 1.2 Gigawatts – enough to power more than a million homes. Next year, a 150-turbine wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands is due to start operating, and other schemes along the Dutch coast are in the works. Denmark, Sweden and Portugal are major investors in offshore wind, and China has ambitious plans for the sector. Wind farms – both onshore and...
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Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender

...project of creating psychosocially informed self-help, and the various methods involved: reviewing existing theory and research; analysing existing self-help; conducting collaborative research with gender-, sexual-, and relationship-diverse (GSRD) communities; autoethnographic reflection; and creative dissemination. This time I want to reflect on one particular strand of...
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The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London
Education & Development

The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London

...project is a pilot to explore issues which are important to children and young people in a view to turn this into a larger project. The lives of Black children and young people are often underrepresented so this is why it is particularly important that their views were captured in terms of how they’ve been feeling and reacting to COVID-19. [teen girl wearing headphones...
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Article 10 mins
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...Introduction - This course examines how organic chemistry is used within the pharmaceutical industry to develop new drugs. You will investigate the process of drug development by following one new product through the intial process and research programme. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Science...Birth of a drug: Learning outcomes - After...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Making Social Worlds
Society, Politics & Law

Making Social Worlds

...introduction to this album. South African passbooks Obligatory passbooks governed life in South Africa under Apartheid. Classifying races How races were classified after the introduction of the 1950 Population Registration Act. Held hostage to a passbook The impact of passbooks on the community. Humiliation of the red stamp The 'Vula-Vala' check-up that was undergone to...
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Audio 55 mins
Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist

...introduction to this album. Darwin's great great granddaughter The poet Ruth Padel talks about her great great grandfather, Charles Darwin, and how she has responded to his life and work in her poetry. Darwin's childhood Ruth Padel and Sheila Ochugboju reflect on Darwin's childhood, and Ruth reads her poems "The Chapel School", The year my mother died", "The miser"....
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Audio 45 mins
Opening up history: art in the Reformation
History & The Arts

Opening up history: art in the Reformation

...project about? I have just completed a project on the role of images in the Lutheran church in the Duchy of Württemberg from 1534 to 1700. It examines the debates that rulers and theologians had about the place of images in the new Lutheran church following the Reformation. Were religious images heretical or could they inspire devotion? I consider how different groups of...
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The Skills Network
Society, Politics & Law

The Skills Network

...from and support each other. It was initiated by non-governmental organisation/charity and encourages people to participate through organising and campaigning. The Skills Network is local in orientation and concerned with democracy, politics and represention, neighbourhood and community and research, knowledge production and information access. The project is ongoing....
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