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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 Morrissey won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for an unpublished manuscript at the age of 18, making her the youngest poet ever to do so.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
Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...worked with Social Services and moved to education (with some stops in between). This movement means you learn a great deal. Statistics in Social Services covers areas such as how many children are in care. Where are they? Are any regions giving rise to unusually high instances of referrals? How often are community service orders used and do offenders re-offend? My own...
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Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...work from Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology to challenge the rhetoric of 'healthy choices' and consider why it's essential to go beyond the individual to understand systems and environments that currently fail children and their health. The following video explores the concepts covered in this course....Children and young people: food and food marketing:...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Five smart technologies helping the visually impaired
Society, Politics & Law

Five smart technologies helping the visually impaired

...social network FourSquare, guidance from Global Position System (GPS) satellites, and navigation through Google Maps to direct users from point to point in the city using turn by turn navigation. A number of other companies have developed software in this area which operates similar to the turn by turn driving directions that GPS offers car users. Transcript Dr Oliver...
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