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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
History & The Arts

A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather

...public service in supplying weather forecasts to the BBC and conducting atmospheric science research. It has acquired an obligation to generate commercial revenue, however, and in 2011 it became part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The Met gets its income through providing a range of specialised forecasts, for example on behalf of the aviation and...
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Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...Public Anthropology’, Anthropology Today, 36(5): pp. 1-2. Harvey, G. (2020) ‘Trans-Indigenous Festivals: Democracy and Emplacement’ in Pike, S.M., Salomonsen, J. and Tremlett, P.-F. (eds) Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and Performances, Sheffield: Equinox. Nye, M. (2020) ‘A Discussion of the ‘Religion and Worldviews in Religious Education’ Report:...
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Privacy in the Digital Age: Is it ‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ or ‘I’ve got nothing to hide’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privacy in the Digital Age: Is it ‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ or ‘I’ve got nothing to hide’?

...public and private sphere – how we understand ourselves as individuals within society. Data can be used in unprecedented ways to influence our lives, and as a result, new questions about privacy need to be addressed. Over time, we appear to have acclimatised to the accumulation and storage of our personal information. In fact, it is key for some government services...
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Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...health and safety violations, illegal collaboration with multinational corporations criminality at cultural and societal levels, including: material immiseration of sections of the community, institutional racism, cultural vandalism. Family violence Forms of physical or mental violence in the life cycle of family members: it can include physical abuse and neglect of...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...Health NHS Foundation Trust in whose care he died. … There was a lack of leadership, focus and sufficient time spent in the Trust on carefully reporting and investigating unexpected deaths …’ (Mazars, 2015, pp. 7–16) [Described image] Figure 1: Connor Sparrowhawk, who drowned in a bath at Slade House residential unit. Slade House is just one of thousands of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...public as one of the most important issues facing the UK. Most debate on migration focusses on national policy decisions in relation to how many people should be allowed into the UK and the role of the Home Office in controlling the border and, recently, in terms of the so-called ‘hostile’ or compliant environment and its impact on communities including the Windrush...
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Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?

...health, and the management of concussion at all ages and levels of football. So, what is being done to manage the risk of concussion in football and is it enough? [Tributes are seen outside the stadium for former Manchester United player Nobby Stiles prior to the Premier League match between Manchester United and Arsenal at Old Trafford on November 01, 2020 in Manchester,...
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The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...health, including susceptibility to certain diseases, such as heart disease. Human genome sequence When genetics is explained in the news there's usually a graphic of a whole string of lettering. This is the human genome sequence. What you see on the news is an alphabetic representation of the molecular structure of DNA. The information is stored in the DNA as a series of...
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