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Why is FGM practised?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is FGM practised?

...work of authors with similar and opposing perspectives who critically debate FGM through anthropological, human rights, public health, and social scientist lenses. They discuss the complexities of social norms, social convention, pluralistic ignorance, human rights, universalist and cultural relativism and feminist approaches (Fisaha, 2016; Shell-Duncan et al., 2018;...
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Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...working life and your social life or family responsibilities. These skills are: organising yourself, managing time and managing stress. Unfortunately, there is no universal prescription for any of these skills. However, you will consider what events make you stressed, the impact that different demands and pressures have on you, and different ways of dealing with them so...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
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...
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What does an engineer look like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does an engineer look like?

...social media. One wrote that it was an “implausible” representation of “what a female software engineer looks like”, while another called for a “friendly smile rather than a sexy smirk”. The implication is: its not possible to be both an “attractive” woman and an engineer. Isis however, is both those things and so much more. Wenger’s response in the...
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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...
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Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...works of art in a museum or a gallery. All of these modes of study are central to the humanities. But they are no longer the only ones in the researcher's toolbox. The last 30 years have seen the growth of digital documents and artifacts that are of great interest to humanities researchers. The field of digital humanities is developing methods to study the humanities with...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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,...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...work she did on social media before and afterwards provide clues. Prior to these events, a lot of the people who expressed themselves at the protest didn’t think of themselves as campaigners for racial justice. Likewise, Boni developed agency as someone effective in public-facing activism through organising the protest and receiving support. These alternatives, which...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs