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60 Years after the Treaty of Rome: Lessons from history for today's EU
Society, Politics & Law

60 Years after the Treaty of Rome: Lessons from history for today's EU

...project. Understandings of the history of European integration have been shaped by an evocative phrase contained in the Treaty of Rome: that the goal of the process was ‘ever closer union’. According to this interpretation, further integration was seen as both inevitable and desirable, and it was assumed that economic integration (through the creation of the Common...
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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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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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Selling Empire: Film
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Film

...Introduction. But One Family was slow-paced, and over-reliant on slightly stale nineteenth century symbols of monarchy and Empire. It was a commercial flop. With limited resources, the EMB Film Unit output initially included rehashed film donated from countries such as Canada, and short films on British products and industry. Hence there were rather mundane shorts such as...
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Remembering Thatcherism
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Thatcherism

...project which had won an ideological battle and was in the process of constructing a new consensus. He also argued that the left had failed to understand the nature of the crisis and had no alternative. In making this case, Thatcherite ideology drew on the work of Milton Friedman and applied his free market thinking to the specific situation in Britain. This kind of...
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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