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A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...et al., 2018). At any given time, one in six working-age adults have symptoms associated with mental ill health (McManus et al., 2016). There are 72 million working days lost every year due to mental health, costing the UK economy £74–£99 billion (Centre for Mental Health, 2017; Department for Work and Pensions and Department of Health and Social Care , 2017)....
What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...institutions in the modern world ...What is politics?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the competing interpretations of what politics is, who does it and where it is done grasp the importance of politics and the variety of ways in which politics affects your everyday life better understand the contestability of concepts in...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?
Society, Politics & Law

Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?

...institutions to a few more different people, without doing anything for any of the people who needed the cause most in the first place. It come down to this. Major corporations can't claim that by using trans identities to sell clothes, or beer, or whatever it is this week, they are doing something radical or political. Trans is not a commodity to be bought and sold....
Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...Institute of Technology (MIT) for Professor Edward N. Lorenz, the pioneer of chaos theory, programming early computers to predict weather. She had to learn her trade hands-on as no taught software courses existed and among her credits, she promoted the term “software engineering” to provide legitimacy to the science and set it on a par with other types of engineering...
6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales

...institutions have grown in stature, so too has it become more important of everyone in Wales can make their voices count. Although it may sometimes feel that decision-making is removed from the everyday life of average citizens, there has never been a more important time for us all to use our influence. But how can you make your voice heard? Here are six ideas to get you...
Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora
OpenLearn Ireland

Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora

...Institute of Irish Studies. American Chamber of Commerce Ireland, US-Ireland Business 2022: Ireland The Next Century American Chamber of Commerce https://www.amchambusinessreport.com/ Colley, L. (2003) Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837, new edn, London: Pimlico. National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840. Open University.
The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...institutions and governments do? Peter Harper gives his view on higher education and government policies to address the climate crisis. Transcript I don't live in the UK, will The OU Carbon Calculator work for me? The OU Carbon Calculator is designed for people living in the UK. However, if you live in a north-western European country, such as the Irish Republic, the...
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen began to lay the framework for the recognition of rights such as the freedom of speech and assembly. In these documents the development of modern human international law can be seen. Whilst such documents differed in their detailed content, certain general principles underpinned them: Every human being has certain rights, which they have by...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs