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From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator
Health, Sports & Psychology

From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator

...work, studying, housework and being a mum. Childhood I was talking to my mum about my childhood, and discussing how busy our lives were. Like me, she was a single mum who was working full-time and studying. She explained how every teacher described me as being ‘a lovely, kind and well-behaved little girl’ but how I was ‘not an academic’. School was a massive...
Cider: The new politics of food
Society, Politics & Law

Cider: The new politics of food

...social problems such as binge drinking, how can a small artisan cider maker take cider away from the streets and back onto the restaurant table? The humble apple - and cider, one of it's most pleasurable products lie at the heart of a new politics of food activism while the decline of the British apple orchard reveals a much wider significance to our understanding of...
Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?
Languages

Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?

...social power associated with it. Within most countries, the standard language of that country is the variety of language that is associated with formal schooling, language assessment, and official print publications, among other things. Despite the ‘standard’ part of the term; the English language in both spoken and written form comes in a variety of arrangements...
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...working towards a social enterprise, the long-term financial viability is still a fundamental necessity. In reality, however, many other motives and objectives also influence business and managerial behaviour, particularly among small organisations of less than 20 employees (which would include almost all new start ups). Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter (1934) defined...
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time
Society, Politics & Law

Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time

...social, political, cultural, class, gendered divisions within Scotland itself, so very different parts of Scotland voted in different ways. What stands out in terms of the highlight points is that areas that tended to be more deprived voted yes; areas that were more affluent tended to vote no. Now, of course, there are examples that maybe cut against both, but the...
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...working. If the silos/social bubbles of your organisation are too strong, then this will not happen. Being a change agent means finding ways to ‘pop the bubbles’, to foster the spread of knowledge about improved outcomes and new ways of working. This can be achieved through, for example: ‘brown bag’ lunch talks; communities of practice; internal conferences,...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service

...social responsibility and growing demands for diversity. Moreover, it connects up to rising questions over whether a consumer service mentality is appropriate in all and every contexts – especially organizations ostensibly aimed at the public rather than the private good. A crucial part of any business is to treat its customers right. Importantly this means all its...
Living with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with Disability

...social and psychological impacts and investigate the extent to which care environments are enabling or disabling. The album also contains a fictional case study which explores some of the issues facing people who are carers in their own homes. To complete the album, Joanna Bornat and Jan Walmsley of The Open University's Faculty of Health and Social Care explain why some...
Audio 2 hrs 14 mins