At a time when everyone is calling for private money to invest in the economy, responsible investment is more important than ever.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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To be able to understand the importance of the environment for our health, we need to know a little about the interdependence between environment and humankind. This free course, Health and environment, will look at interactions between plants, animals and the physical and chemical environment, as well as considering ways in which humans have altered, and are altering this environment.
Category: Health
How can we tackle the bullying of transgender youth in schools? Can workshops on gender diversity help?
Category: Young People's Health
This EDI Calendar is a resource to highlight key events, observances, and initiatives related to equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.
Category: Education & Development
This EDI Calendar is a resource to highlight key events, observances, and initiatives related to equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.
Category: Education & Development
This free course aims to build your confidence as a change agent for equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.
Category: Education & Development
This free course will enable leaders and aspiring leaders in a range of educational settings to consider different approaches to leading inclusive professional development. Students will be introduced to concepts and practices for collaborative enquiry and contextually relevant professional development. They will be encouraged to reflect on how these approaches can contribute to inclusive communities of practice within their organisation and how they might support the needs of educators at different stages of their career. They will also examine how inclusive leadership for professional development can foster agency and individual development in staff members as well as driving institutional change.
Category: Education & Development
This free course will enable leaders and aspiring leaders in a range of educational settings to reflect on key concepts for inclusive leadership. They will be introduced to the influence of values and emotions in leadership and consider how underpinning principles of social justice can change leadership relationships and interactions. Students will be encouraged to reflect on personal and institutional opportunities to lead inclusively, including in challenging circumstances. They will examine the potential of working with leaders beyond their organisation to effect change and build collaborative networks that support inclusive leadership.
Category: Education & Development
This course will help you to develop your understanding of how to promote and support learning for all, within classrooms with a diverse student and staff population. It will encourage you to embrace your own capacity to lead at any level of an organisation. You will explore the tensions around collective responses and individualised challenges, consider these alongside the need to embrace risk and recognise the opportunities that arise from everyday uncertainty. By engaging with these inclusive principles, you will be invited to seek out ways in which you can support others and so enhance collective learning opportunities.
Category: Education & Development
This course will help you to think about your professional educational situation and the ways in which you can develop your practices alongside others. It will provide you with a better understanding of competing values within the school system and how to identify and build upon opportunities to lead and collaborate in this context. You will explore some key conceptual underpinnings of ideas associated with difference. This will help you place your own experiences, views, and beliefs in the context of others, so you are better placed to identify ways to take a lead in providing education for all.
Category: Education & Development
How diverse is the tutor population at The Open University? This article explores ...
Category: Education & Development
This free course, Working with diversity in services for children and young people, will provide you with an understanding of the ways in which diverse and intersecting social identities structure the lives and experiences of children and young people, and the implications of those identities for professional practice. Although designed primarily for those working with or supporting children or young people, whether in a paid or voluntary role, it will also be of interest to those who wish to improve their understanding of services for children and young people.
Category: Education & Development
This Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Research page is intended to inspire conversations amongst researchers (postgraduate, emerging and established) and their research teams. It contributes towards accomplishing The Open University’s mission of embodying Higher Education as open to people, places, methods and ideas. The pages drawn together here are designed to cultivate research cultures that value inclusion, innovation and responsiveness.
Category: Education
Alison Buckler and Alison Fox discuss equity-based research and the advantages it provides.
Category: Education
Azumah Dennis and Jenny Douglas explore the importance of paying our thanks and respect to the work of those who have inspired us.
Category: Education
In the following, the formulation of research questions is discussed in relation to health and social care. However, the issues considered have relevance to research in other public policy and service arenas.
Category: Education
Jonty Rix looks at the advantages of selecting diverse groups from different backgrounds. Creating the perfect group is an impossible task, but gathering a wide range of people will enhance the research journey.
Category: Education
Involving participants in research is asking them to share their stories. In this article, Mel Green looks at what is done with these stories once they become public, with the help of Jennifer Douglas.
Category: Education
This article focuses on the process of analysing research data from a perspective that promotes Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). It offers some pointers to researchers in any field.
Category: Education
In this new series of the podcast hosted by Katherine Jegede, we continue to explore the voices and experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic staff and students at The Open University.