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Society, Politics & Law
Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Find out more about an exciting new project which is concerned to uncover a largely hidden past: women’s involvement in workplace struggles across Scotland since the early 1900s.
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Society, Politics & Law
The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges
In May 2021 Educational Institute of Scotland – Further Education Lecturers’ Association (EIS-FELA) were victorious over their strike against the fire and re-hire attempts by college management. Penny Gower explains what happened...
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Society, Politics & Law
Wendy Gregory On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Wendy Gregory speaks with Prof. Simon Bell about what systems means to her and her work on green spaces.
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Society, Politics & Law
Jake Chapman On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Jake Chapman speaks with Prof. Simon Bell about what a systems approach means to him and touches on the subject of active listening.
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Nature & Environment
Arwen Bailey On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Arwen Bailey speaks with Prof. Simon Bell about systems in agricultural research.
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Society, Politics & Law
STiP@50 Celebrations
STiP@50 celebrates fifty years of distance learning at The Open Univeristy along with Systems Thinking. Find out more about systems thinking in practice with these podcasts and videos.
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Nature & Environment
What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Delegates attending the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in November 2021 were entrusted with leading the global response to humanity’s greatest challenge: how can we stop the world from heating to the point it becomes uninhabitable for future generations?
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Society, Politics & Law
Capacity and demand management
This free course, Capacity and demand management, is part of the series focusing on leadership, decision-making and communication in the context of policing within the community. This course focuses on the use of data to make decisions, using actions taken in managing capacity and demand as the applied example. The course uses examples not ...
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Society, Politics & Law
It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name
Should you ever change your identity in order to progress your career? Open University employee Sudesh Loi gives his views...
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Digital & Computing
How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?
There's still a massive gender imbalance in university STEM subjects. What can be done to address this? Clem Herman has some ideas...
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Society, Politics & Law
Bywyd ac oes Cyril Lakin
Mae stori Cyril Lakin, cyn-olygydd llenyddol y Daily Telegraph a'r Sunday Times yn ystod y 1930au, darlledwr y BBC yn ystod y Blitz, ac Aelod Seneddol yn ystod y rhyfel, ac yn taflu goleuni ar themâu ehangach yn stori'r Gymru fodern.
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Society, Politics & Law
The life and times of Cyril Lakin
The story of Cyril Lakin, a former literary editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times during the 1930s, BBC broadcaster during the Blitz, and wartime Member of Parliament, sheds light on wider themes in the story of modern Wales.