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Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...Project, 2023) suggest that fossil fuel burning is adding approximately 37 gigatonnes (37 000 million tonnes) of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year, with land use change contributing approximately 4 gigatonnes. The same estimates also suggest that around 40% to 50% of these carbon releases remain in the atmosphere for centuries or many thousands of years. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...project that we run in partnership with Aberlour so we manage the project but Aberlour which is a national children’s charity, they deliver the service, so each unaccompanied asylum child that comes to Scotland will have the right to have a guardian. This is actually funded by the Scottish Government, and the role of the guardian is to work with a child, not just to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...Project Fear'... Just as the Brexit campaign accuses the government of running Project Fear, the National Referendum Campaign's 'Why You Should Vote No' leaflet warned of pro-EEC scaremongering: It is scare-mongering to pretend that withdrawal from the Common Market would mean heavy unemployment or loss of trade. In a very few years we shall enjoy in North Sea oil a...
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Video 2 hrs
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...projected onto scientific information and its subsequent reporting. But the dynamics of online spaces have also facilitated more nuanced debate about the social implications of research, and its potential to perpetuate inequalities...“Brain Study Confirms Gender Stereotypes”, “Why Men Are Better at Map Reading”, “Women Wired to Multitask”, “Women Crap at...
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Article 10 mins
Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...project. Community art is, by definition, democratized cultural activity, since it requires, well, a community and an artist. As with Wall Street’s Charging Bull and Fearless Girl sculptures, the politics of intent and reception get mixed up over time. Charging Bull started life as a piece of guerrilla art and now embodies popular ideas about high finance; Fearless Girl...
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Video 25 mins
Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...project. It has the capacity to determine priorities in your field of interest. In the video below, Professors Carol Azumah Dennis and Jenny Douglas talk about their own experiences as academics of citational politics. Transcript. Beyond this, citations matter in academic writing as they confer mutual credibility. They demonstrate a degree of respect for the person whose...
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Article 20 mins
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...projects and systems is an important design principle. This impacts on both the granularity of the service (the service should strive to support generic business processes and tasks and close alignment with the business) and on the choice of standards and implementation technology, which should foster the highest possible degree of interoperability. Dynamic
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...manager to lead projects and grow, etc., this helps the new manager to feel valued and respected. It delivers a sense of belonging.’...Week 8: Next steps: 6 This week’s quiz - It’s now time to take the Week 8 compulsory badge quiz. It’s similar to previous quizzes, but this time, like Week 4, instead of answering five questions there will be 15. Open the quiz in a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs