Acknowledgements
This free course was written by Dr Donna Smith (with additional content in Section 6 from D113 module team members Dr Peter Redman and Dr Dan Taylor).
Thank you to the OU students who helped to develop the Changemakers project upon which this course is partly based.
Thank you to the UK Parliament Week team for helping to develop the original Changemakers guide.
Thank you to the Political Studies Association for helping to fund the original Changemakers guide.
Thank you to OU Scotland, OU Wales and OU Ireland for commenting on/contributing to selected content.
Thank you to the UK Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Parliament, and the Northern Ireland Assembly for commenting on/contributing to selected content.
Thank you to the UK Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Welsh Parliament, and Northern Ireland Assembly for endorsing/branding this course.
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Figure 1:
(top left) The UK Parliament. Photo: Pawel Libera / Getty https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 2.0/
(top right) Northern Ireland Parliament. Photo: kilhan / Getty
(middle left) Scottish Parliament. Photo: ChrisHepburn / Getty
(middle right) European Parliament. Photo: Callan Quinn / Getty
(bottom left) Welsh Parliament. Photo: DaiPhoto / Getty
(bottom right) Political protest outside the UK Parliament. Photo: CGP Grey, http://www.cgpgrey.com via Flickr. This file is licensed under the Attribution 2.0 Generic licence https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/
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Figure 3 Photo: Maskot / Getty
Figure 4 Photo: UK Parliament
Figure 5 Photo: Elliott Stallion via Unsplash
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Figure 7 Photo: The Scottish Parliament
Figure 8 Photo: Christophe Boisvieux / Getty
Figure 9 Photo: Jeff J Mitchell / Staff / Getty
Figure 10 Photo: Senedd Cymru/Welsh Parliament
Figure 11 Photo: matthewleesdixon / Getty
Figure 12 Northern Ireland Assembly
Figure 13 Photo: PA Images / Alamy
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Figure 18 Photo: Marcus Rashford MBE / Twitter
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Figure 22 Photo: Colin Fisher / Alamy
Figure 23 Photo: Senedd Cymru/Welsh Parliament
Video 1: The Scottish Parliament
Video 2: The Scottish Parliament
Video 3: Northern Ireland Assembly
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