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Diary of a new Life Peer
Society, Politics & Law

Diary of a new Life Peer

...Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. 25 April 2024 I gave my maiden speech during a debate on the topic of affordable housing. The debate motion tabled for the debate was: Viscount Chandos to move that this House takes note of the supply of genuinely affordable housing, its impact on the economy, and the steps needed to increase supply, particularly for key...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...data from the ONS website. How did the construction of racial classifications based on skin pigmentation come about, and what was it in service of? Why are only the Black and white skin pigmentation classifications still in use in the UK census?...Introducing Union Black: 2.3 Undoing bias: learning about others - Am I learning for myself or learning from labels or...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...analysis had advanced just enough to contemplate an effort to hunt down the defective Doberman gene. *** I can never reconstruct the combination of factors that led to the onset of my own narcolepsy, but the stage was set at the moment of my conception in 1972, at around the time of Monique’s birth in Saskatchewan. My one-cell self inherited a particular version of a...
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Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...data was collected and published by COMA, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (1991). This committee has now been disbanded, but its publications still represent a valid source of information about diet. When this course was published (2004), the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) advised the Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...analysis turned out to be a ‘cut and paste job’ designed to influence MPs to vote for military action in Iraq (White, MacAskill and Norton-Taylor, 2003). There may be different standards and expectations around copying material depending on what you are doing, what material you are using, how you are using the material, what conditions exist around the use of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Coaching others to coach Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...analysis of coach developers: applications to the FA Youth Coach Educator role’, in Allison, W., Abraham, A. and Cale, A. (eds) Advances in Coach Education and Development: From Research to Practice, London, Routledge. Egan, G. (1998) The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management Approach to Helping, London, International Thomson Publishing Europe. International Coach...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...analysis of the meanings of ‘national identity’: Nations tend to be imagined as racially and ethnically homogeneous … If the nation is imagined as being made up of people said to be of the same colour and said to have the same ethnic origins, then all those who are defined as not meeting these two criteria can be constructed as being ‘outside’ the nation, as not...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...data to an economist. They provide the raw material with which you can work. Some people seem to have a natural talent for systems thinking, just as some have a natural talent for playing the piano. But most people find it rather awkward and difficult at first. In a way, that is an encouraging sign; it shows that you are genuinely coming to grips with something...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs