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Climate change and the importance of COP26

...University both teaches about and does research relevant to climate change. It has more than seven thousand staff and nearly 200,000 students who will be affected by climate change, let alone the millions of learners using OpenLearn. This climate change page brings together existing OpenLearn content that is directly relevant to climate change which you can study but will...

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Article 5 mins

Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute

...University's Social Sciences courses. Background[Lyn-Marie O'Hara outside the Unison offices in Glasgow.]Lyn-Marie outside the Unison Glasgow City branch office, Bell Street, Glasgow, September 2022Lyn-Marie O’Hara was one of the key figures in the long campaign by Unison members at Glasgow City Council for equal pay. As Mags McCarthy indicates in her article on the...

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Health, Sports & Psychology

Key Ideas in Therapy

...University, and Damn Fine Media. Beyond Individual Therapy Originally most forms of psychotherapy focused on the individual client and their individual problems. However later researchers stressed the importance of looking beyond the individual - to their relationships and to the wider social systems they live in. The ‘systemic view’ is interested in how these factors...

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Video 7 mins

Money & Business

Can you harness intrapreneurship?

...University (OU), hosted by innovation advisor and engineer, Josh Valman. The four sessions look at the what intrapreneurs are and how the right culture can be created to allow them to solve problems in the same fashion as an entrepreneur and start-ups. We take a closer look at digital/AI and sustainability and learn how intrapreneurs could help you to solve difficult...

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Video 4 hrs

Education & Development

Elective Home Education Hub

A collection of free resources from The Open University - articles, videos, audio and courses tailored to support home educators, home-educated young people, and other stakeholders.

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Society, Politics & Law

The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate

...University of California, Berkeley. García Bedolla’s research interests center around the civic engagement, community activity, and educational success of ethnoracial groups in the United States. She is author of Latino Politics. [Donald Trump] Donald Trump: If he's not invited to the party, he might go alone Trump issues a warning Anthony Gaughan, Drake University Fox...

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Article 5 mins

Society, Politics & Law

‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982

...University's History and Social Sciences qualification. Background The public, political and cultural representations of working-class activism in opposition to industrial closure are dominated by the image of the militant male worker. Leaders like Jimmy Reid, Arthur Scargill and high-profile disputes by miners, shipyard workers, car workers, steel workers and others are...

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Article 10 mins

Society, Politics & Law

Migrant businesswomen and the census

...Census: migration, gender, and business, and shows how art-based approaches such as storytelling can be used to communicate quantitative Census data. Project team: Dr Carry van Lieshout (The Open University), Gunjan Sondhi (The Open University). Partners: ReWomen (Women of Management and Enterprise Network), CREME (Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship)...

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