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Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

...everyday lives. To get out they would need a surety in the form of immigration bail. Ray often stood bail for individuals in order to help them get out of the detention centres more quickly as he had noticed the deterioration in mental health that often accompanied incarceration. He began to wonder whether singing could be ideal as a way to support traumatised people and...
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A brief history of the lens
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of the lens

...everyday worlds convincing, and finding new landscapes beyond the earth were contributing to knowledge before the birth of photography, but the crucial difference was the arrival of a chemical means of fixing the fleeting image that appeared through a lens. The arrival of photography did not solve the challenges of understanding what we could now see, but it extended the...
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Introduction to algebra
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to algebra

...everyday life. You should now be able to: recognise technical terms and appreciate some of the uses of algebra collect like terms and simplify expressions term by term multiply out brackets simplify formulas solve simple linear equations. This free OpenLearn course is an extract from the Open University module MU123 Discovering mathematics. To see if you are ready to...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...everyday life of Viking-Age people. These examples of craftmanship and technical tool work – and there are many more – demonstrate that the Vikings should be seen as more than just raiders, and more more than simple traders or merchants too. With their outward-looking society and cutting edge techniques, they were among the earliest investors in global technologies in...
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Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking
Education & Development

Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking

...everyday clothing are excluded from design education. I have also experimented with encouraging fashion students to design a garment for someone they love, rather than an imaginary size 8 female body. And I have explored ways to teach design beyond the boundaries of design disciplines through a women of colour feminist reading group that allows students of colour to...
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'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...everyday life then, and still does now. I’m glad to say that the moment that an astronaut insisted on the calculations being checked by one of the ‘hidden figures’ did really happen. [Cast of Hidden Figures meeting President Obama] Some of the cast of Hidden Figures meeting President Obama Laws should protect people from racism – but just as surely as we should...
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An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Science, Maths & Technology

An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice

...everyday decisions, shaped by workplace power dynamics in which designers operate (Foucault, 2023; Papanek, 2019; Schön, 1983). Boundary objects: a way to make ethics visible? To study ethics in action, I use boundary objects (Star & Griesemer, 1989) – a concept from STS (Science and Technology Studies) that refers to things that are flexible enough to be interpreted...
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The role sustainable chemistry plays in shaping the planet's future
Science, Maths & Technology

The role sustainable chemistry plays in shaping the planet's future

...everyday chemicals. They also incorporate a dye so that they can monitor the breakdown of the plastic using a smart phone app. If you would like to study these topics further then related materials appear in The Open University course S350 Evaluating Contemporary Science, and sustainable chemistry is discussed in S248 Chemistry in life: food, water & medicines and will be...
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