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Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two

...everyday examples of human beings helping others when they are in trouble, from small acts of kindness like offering advice on directions when someone is lost to attempts to rescue other unknown people when their lives are imperilled (with the classic example of given here of the people who in flimsy lifeboats in coastal towns across the UK would risk life and limb in...
Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics
Science, Maths & Technology

Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics

...everyday applications demonstrate the growing presence of bioplastics in our lives, offering a subtle yet impactful way to reduce our reliance on conventional fossil fuel-derived plastics. As society embraces bioplastics, it's important to consider their preservation, particularly in museum collections where preservation is key. Many bioplastics degrade faster than...
Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology

...everyday life. According to Ofcom’s 2017 figures, 94% of adults in the UK own a mobile phone; and over three-quarters of those are smartphones. And while mobile phones were originally designed to facilitate phone calls on the go, Deloitte’s mobile consumer survey (2016) suggests a third of smartphone users don’t actually make traditional voice calls at all. Instead,...
The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace

...everyday tool. It is possible to learn and develop emotional intelligence skills but takes practice: being able to notice and manage attitudes, emotions, and behaviour, whilst in a changing social context, is a continual process. Emotional intelligence is also reflected in what a person does in the present moment: it is something people do, not something they...
Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...everyday?...A recent conversation between three colleagues from different professional backgrounds – education, social work, and academic development in Higher Education – explored the synergies and differences between how professional learning is framed in rhetoric and reality. What emerged was a rich tapestry of ideas, provocations, and shared tensions that...
Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...everyday lives, and overestimate our capacity to identify and interrupt it. This is especially true in academic contexts where we tend to assume that if we simply accumulate more facts and information about the histories of colonialism and its contemporary impacts, this will then lead us to shift our actions away from reproducing colonial harm. But we cannot just read...
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...everyday life? Do you think the new technologies control crime, or control us? Why do you think that UK has the heaviest concentration of surveillance cameras ion the world? These are some of the questions that are currently preoccupying criminologists, especially those involved in ‘situational crime prevention’ initiatives and ‘governance’ theorists. Listen to...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...everyday usage). The term ‘model’ is used in a variety of contexts, even when there is a more commonly used term especially appropriate to its own context: models of terrain are usually called ‘maps’; models of electrical components wired together are usually called ‘circuit diagrams’; and models of the configuration of the planets within the zodiac are called...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs