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The Belfast linen industry
History & The Arts

The Belfast linen industry

...social and economic development of Belfast. The manufacture of linen was the catalyst that allowed it to grow from a town into the region's pre-eminent city. It grew most rapidly during the 1860s – by the end of the 19th century Belfast was the linen capital of the world. [Spinning wheel, spinning linen.] During the 18th and early 19th centuries, linen production in...
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...social position. What factors contributed to Nick and Louis becoming unwell? You need to pay attention to both what Nick and Louis say and what they imply. Louis’ lifestyle as a chef – long hours, little time off, the need for perfectionism – undermined his mental health. For Nick the uncertainties of living as a jazz musician ‘overloaded his nervous system’ and...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance
Education & Development

Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance

...social and emotional learning. This article explores 'Dancemotion', a collaborative project led by The Open University...Since March, children in the UK (and elsewhere) have been dealing with a range of often strong emotions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether a child is now being taught in school (as some are) or as ‘distance-learners’ based at home, dance has...
Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters

...social media is to portray vegans as humourless, as unable to take a joke but humour or at least claim to be joking rather than serious is often used in popular culture to ward off accusations of reproducing oppressive power relations. Not least of which is the oppression of other animals by humans. Framing anti veganism as humour is an attempt to stifle criticism, so...
Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...Social work qualifications. Transcript Child criminal exploitation takes a variety of forms and there is confusion about what it encompasses – for instance, does it include children as well as young people? In short, it does, because in law children are defined as all those under 18 years of age. The concern about child criminal exploitation relates to those children...
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...social problems – some of which he would be gravely concerned to see continuing from the twentieth into the twenty-first century. W.E.B. Du Bois was born in 1868, only nine years after John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859, when John Brown tried to capture the arsenal and free slaves in the town, and three years after the end of the American Civil War...
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...interactions between ‘technology developers’ (e.g. drone manufacturers) and users are key for the industry to grow beyond the stage of ‘incubation’. For example, in 2014–2016, drones began to be used for precision agriculture in the US. The drones were re-designed to meet the requirements of farmers (users) for specific farming tasks: field monitoring, crop...
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...interact with products apply comparison and evaluation skills, including constructive criticism of everyday products apply observational skills in the context of both personal and others' use of products...People-centred designing: 1 People-centred designing - This unit provides a taster of one of the most important concerns in product design - that the things we interact...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs