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Making Sustainability Visible in Physics: Small Curriculum Changes with Strategic Impact
Martin Braun ~ STEM staff tutor Sustainability is one of the defining societal challenges of our time, and higher education has a crucial role to play in helping learners understand both its scientific foundations and its wider social implications. For some disciplines, this connection is obvious. For others, physics among them is less so. An…
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Kicking off Pride Month at the OU: exploring LGBT+ visibility in STEM
Eleanor Moore ~ Learning Designer June is Pride Month and here at The Open University, we have a packed calendar of events exploring diverse perspectives and themes of inclusion. One of the first was an online seminar led by Dr Jessica Gagnon of Manchester University and Dr Marco Reggiani of Strathclyde University. Jessica and Marco…