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Global response to the financial crisis
Society, Politics & Law

Global response to the financial crisis

...system respond? Senior Lecturer William Brown is joined by three course team members to address the key issues that emerged as a result of the financial crisis and what it reveals about shifts in the international system. The album also explores how the principles of game theory could be applied to regulating complex financial problems. This material forms part of The...
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How did Donald Trump get elected and who does he represent?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Donald Trump get elected and who does he represent?

...does his shock victory signal for democratic political systems? In this audio Tendayi Bloom asks Richard Heffernan and Agnes Czajka to reflect on how Trump was able to win the 2016 presidential election, how the US electoral system operates and the questions it raises for representative democratic systems more widely. Select here for a copy of the transcript of this audio...
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Rich pictures
Science, Maths & Technology

Rich pictures

...Systems Methodology (Checkland, 1981; Checkland and Scholes, 1990; Checkland and Poulter, 2020). Their purpose is to gather in one place, on one sheet of paper, all the data about a complex messy situation that you have collected. Using pictures or drawings is helpful in being able to collect it all together on one piece of paper, so that you can see everything together....
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'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...systemic failure? This article explores perspectives on organisational culture and individual action...The recent events of the killing of George Floyd by police in the US, Black Lives Matter protests across the US and the UK in 2020, and racial disproportionality in Stop and Searches by police in London, have re-ignited issues of racism and policing in the public sphere...
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Article 10 mins
Guide to diagrams
Money & Business

Guide to diagrams

...systems map to better understand its structure How you can understand the way these systems interact by drawing an influence diagram How you can use multiple cause diagrams to find the 'causal chains' responsible for why an event or change has occurred When you've watched the videos, you can test your knowledge with a short quiz—which of the diagramming techniques would...
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Activity 30 mins
Rosetta unexpectedly finds oxygen on comet 67P, surprising scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Rosetta unexpectedly finds oxygen on comet 67P, surprising scientists

...system formed...[Oxygen found on comet 67P by the ESA's Rosetta spacecraft] Scientists are perplexed by the detection of molecular oxygen in comet 67P's tail - a completely unexpected discovery. Discovery of molecular oxygen in comet tail forces rethink on how the solar system formed Scientists have for the first time detected molecular oxygen (O2) in a comet’s coma,...
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The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland

...system once governed how farmland was distributed between tenants in Ireland. It supposedly died out in the 19th century, but this was not actually the case in some parts of the West of Ireland...Explore the articles in this collection . [Rundale Clachan style village cluster] Rundale clachan patterns of settlement still visible in County Mayo Agriculture itself...
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Key Ideas in Therapy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Key Ideas in Therapy

...systems around them, such as family and work, which might be where the client's emotional problems come from... The Therapy Relationship What’s more important, finding the right therapy or finding the right therapist? There are a wide range of therapeutic approaches out there in the health marketplace, so how do you know which one is right for you? It turns out that the...
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Video 7 mins