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Get your FREE human body augmented reality postcards
Science, Maths & Technology

Get your FREE human body augmented reality postcards

...work. It’s an augmented reality experience that uses your smartphone’s camera with animated 3D models of your heart, liver and brain. The experience is free but you’ll need to download a free app from a company called Zappar. You’ll also need the unique print outs for your smartphone camera to scan (see the instructions below). Here’s what you need to do… 1....
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Rundblick: beginners' German second edition
Languages

Rundblick: beginners' German second edition

...Work week, and weekdays What do you do? People and their occupations A day in Berlin 3 Interviews with tourists explaining their plans in Berlin The city of Graz 6 people saying what they like about Graz Die Fuggerei in Augsburg The Fuggerei is the world's oldest social housing complex Das Vinzidorf The VinziDorf is a church-ran programme that takes in the homeless Stress...
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The impact of COVID-19 on linguists and their mental health
Languages

The impact of COVID-19 on linguists and their mental health

...social isolation, parenting anxiety, workplace stress, grief and loss, and family violence. For some professionals, such as health workers, the stress they experience at work is very visible to the outside world. The risks taken daily by the armies of British doctors, nurses and healthcare workers treating coronavirus patients have been starkly illustrated by a growing...
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Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...Social Sciences courses Background There is no figure so mystified as the sex worker. She is either a whore who must be punished, a fallen woman (and it is always believed to be just women who are sex workers) who must be saved, or a public health hazard who must be stopped to save society from her immorality and disease. However, for several decades sex workers have...
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No place like home: Prisons and homelessness
Society, Politics & Law

No place like home: Prisons and homelessness

...work, privacy, decent food, or shelter and are often without good health. For many homeless people, life in prison is likely to exacerbate already existing personal troubles and health problems and does very little to address the existential crises generated by being without a home in wider society. Home is a place of intimacy, familiarity and meaning. It is a place of...
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Do we really listen to children and young people?
Education & Development

Do we really listen to children and young people?

...working groups, like Ellie Jones who we have interviewed about her experiences with the Diana Award. In addition, children and young people can design and carry out their own research as a way of informing local community and national policy and practice. Our research at the Open University’s Children’s Research Centre focuses on different aspects of participation in...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...work was greeted with critical acclaim. Morrissey won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for an unpublished manuscript at the age of 18, making her the youngest poet ever to do so. Three of her first four collections were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, which she eventually won with Parallax. She is also recipient of the Irish Times Poetry Now Prize and the Foreword Poetry...
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Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...social, economic, political, and environmental issues of this time. It will highlight the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and outline key global development issues such as migration, socio-economic security, technological innovation and environmental sustainability. You’ll be introduced to a conceptual framework called PASH (power, agency, scale and...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs