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Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...resource and knowledge, and social and political change. Change happens for many reasons. It can be gradual developmental change to make improvements to skills, technology or processes that already exist, or it can be transformational where the change is dramatic and is characterised by a radical change to things like the mission, culture, leadership and structure of an...
Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war
History & The Arts

Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war

...Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Dr Michael Reeve]I always find this sort of question interesting, and a bit tricky, as I have not always been ‘into’ history – I didn’t study it at GCSE or A Level, for instance (choosing geography and sociology instead) – but I sort of grew to love it over time. To hedge my...
Oxygen, blood and the body
Science, Maths & Technology

Oxygen, blood and the body

...human life; more precisely, the oxygen in air is essential for life. A human breathes in approximately 11 000 litres of air every day. But how is that oxygen transported into and around our blood systems and stored in the parts of our body that need it to function? And are humans different to other organisms in how we use oxygen? [computer graphic of red and white blood...
Climate Change Collection
Nature & Environment

Climate Change Collection

...humanities, to social science, education and STEM, it provides an introduction to the issues surrounding climate change. OpenLearn contains many more articles on environmental issues. You can navigate the site by subject area or by searching for key words in the search bar. Notes to teachers All OpenLearn courses can be downloaded as documents (PDF, Word, ePub, Kindle) by...
Exploring the science of climate
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the science of climate

...human activities could influence global climate first emerged more than a hundred years ago, when the Swedish scientist Arrhenius warned that burning coal could lead to global warming. The tracks on this album take a historical look at the systematic study of weather and climate, from the amateur scientists of the Mannheim group in the late 18th century to the...
Nuclear power: friend or foe?
Society, Politics & Law

Nuclear power: friend or foe?

...resources. It is the ability of both sides to mobilise resources (in terms of finance, technology, political and public opinion) that determines outcomes. Nonetheless, discourse matters, too, since it both reflects and inspires the changing relationships of power. For this online exercise you will immerse yourself in the nuclear debate by tackling both sides in the...
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Explainer: What is autophagy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: What is autophagy?

...human cell treated with a compound which induces autophagy] Figure 1: A human cell treated with a compound which induces autophagy. Autophagosomes are visible as small bright green speckles. The general mechanisms of autophagy are thought to be highly similar in all eukaryotic organisms. Defective cell components are engulfed by a membrane, which wraps around the waste...
The Centre for Children and Young People’s Wellbeing at The Open University
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Centre for Children and Young People’s Wellbeing at The Open University

...humanities. We are based at the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University. Our current research projects are funded by The Wellcome Trust and Safefood (the all-Ireland food safety authority). Current research and advocacy partners are at the University of Liverpool, University College Dublin, University of Oslo, Flinders University...