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Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...de-valued: care work, cleaning, nursing, to be re-labelled as ‘essential’ during the pandemic. You will explore the interaction of theoretical lenses and the practical work of artists, through the intersectional feminist exhibition ‘This Is Essential Work’ which explores different aspects of domestic care work during the pandemic. Essential for what? ‘‘The...
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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...de Montaigne noted that his local river, the Dordogne, had in twenty years eroded its right bank and taken over so much land that the foundations of houses were destroyed. It is later in the same essay that Montaigne reflected on the Americas, unknown to Europe until Christopher Columbus’s landing there in 1492, and criticised the tendency to judge other cultures...
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Siblings in the scrum: long history of brothers makes rugby a family affair
Society, Politics & Law

Siblings in the scrum: long history of brothers makes rugby a family affair

...including Ireland’s Luke Fitzgerald whose father Des played for Ireland, Welsh back Ross Moriarty who is following in the footsteps of his father and uncle who both played internationally for Wales, and the England player Owen Farrell whose father Andy, a former England player, is also part of the England coaching staff. Rugby, it seems, truly is a family affair....
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Medicine in ancient Greece and Rome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicine in ancient Greece and Rome

...De materia medica (On Medicines) gave detailed descriptions of how to harvest, prepare, store and test for contamination of medicinal herbs and continued in use well into the Renaissance. Midwives were highly respected in Roman society and those servicing elite households were either slaves or freedwomen (ex-slaves). Soranus’ Gynaecology, the first surviving medical...
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Making young children give everything to football is a bad idea – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making young children give everything to football is a bad idea – here’s why

...de Portugal, home to Sporting Lisbon. Then there are clubs such as Belgium’s Standard Liége, which are not multi-sports clubs but do provide coaching support that develops general skills and abilities, such as agility and coordination, that can be transferable to numerous sports. These clubs approach youth football in these ways because the reality is that early...
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All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...type questions you usually only get one attempt). If you get the answer right first time you will get more marks than for a correct answer the second or third time. Therefore, please be aware that it is possible to get all the questions right but not score 50% and be eligible for the badge on that attempt. If one of your answers is incorrect you will often receive helpful...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...de l’Egypte, initially in ten volumes accompanied by 900 engraved illustrations, between 1809 and 1828. These brought a comprehensive and accurate visual survey of Egyptian temples, tombs and their sculpted and painted decorations before the European public for the first time. A second key development was the Egyptian hieroglyphic script being deciphered by the French...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...types of attack, look at what lessons can be learnt from major incidents and consider what security measures you should apply to protect yourself. To help you to follow the case studies, the same framework has been adopted to analyse and explain each attack. Each case study will answer the questions: What was the attack? How did it work? Who were the attackers? What...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs