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Hip Hop and the Institution
History & The Arts

Hip Hop and the Institution

...Institution conference took place on Thursday 25th and Friday 26th September 2025 and marked the second hybrid event organised by The Open University’s Hip Hop Collaborative. The event consisted of a collection of presentations, performances, discussions, networking events, and featured keynote speeches and contributions from: Cookie Pryce (Cookie Crew) Dr Richard...
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Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...institutional development, this free course, Seeing institutions in different ways, will present institutions in three key ways: as rules and norms, as meanings and values and as big players. The rules govern social life and the norms establish how people should behave, while institutional development is about changing the rules. Meanings help people make sense of their...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Hip Hop and the Institution: Darren Abracadazra
History & The Arts

Hip Hop and the Institution: Darren Abracadazra

...Institution conference. Here, he talks about his influences, poetry and ‘X Factor’... ...‘My name is Darren Paul and I've been performing poetry for around 4-5 years. I am a British-born Jamaican import with mixed ancestry that grew up in London before moving to Milton Keynes at a young age. My poetry is sometimes existential in its nature with authenticity and...
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How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...institutional, structural and systemic racism directly. What is being done now? What can be done moving forward?...After the Race Relations Act of 2000 and the MacPherson Report (1999), a national target to increase racial and ethnic diversity among the UK’s police forces was enacted. Such actions are founded on the belief that increasing the racial and ethnic diversity...
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Getting started with French 3
Languages

Getting started with French 3

...droite et le parc est en face du stade. Dialogue 3 La touriste: Bonjour Messieurs Dames, l’hôpital, c’est où s’il vous plaît? Le passant: Euh… Voyons… C’est là, tout droit et à gauche, c’est en face de la bibliothèque. Dialogue 4 La touriste: Pardon monsieur, je cherche la cathédrale, s’il vous plaît? Le passant: Alors… ben… ici, la cathédrale...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...et souvent politiquement engagés. Le cinéma « engagé » ou « militant », au sens étroit du terme, est un cinéma qui dépeint de façon partisane des événements ou des conditions sociales passées ou actuelles afin d’informer ou de faire réagir le spectateur. Le cinéma engagé existe sous différentes formes telles que les documentaires, les longs métrages,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Crime fiction in French: le polar français
Languages

Crime fiction in French: le polar français

...politiquement engagée et c’est pendant les années soixante-dix que le terme « polar », dérivé de « policier » et « polaire », est née pour désigner la fiction criminelle francophone. Les récits de Didier Daeninckx mettent à jour les liens entre des scandales politiques dans le passé, comme la collaboration à partir de 1940 ou la guerre d’Algérie, et...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...institutional efforts to address inequity as populations have become increasingly diverse over the years (GOV.UK, 2022), systemic biases persist, often limiting early-career researchers’ potential and reinforcing hierarchical norms that hinder genuine equality. This article explores barriers associated with gender discrimination and highlights the importance of...
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