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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...businesses to provide free visits so that the schools can actually come out here and experience countryside life, they can visit a farm, look at the wildlife, look at the landscape and find out about the National Park and hopefully that way we’ll increase their understanding, show what’s possible, and show the link between town and country. Terry: That sounds a lot...
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What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...business, but a woman who inherited her husband’s printing firm actually could join the stationers’ register and she retained that even when she remarried. So of all the trades the women printers actually had enormous amounts of power and one of them published Shakespeare – Venus and Adonis. And fashion, the London Corporation, the London council would try and...
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The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...business and retired to enjoy private research and family life. Fifty years after his discovery of mauve, he was knighted for his contribution to the British chemical industry. His achievement was not just the discovery of the dye but its development and exploitation. Perkin showed that: Chemical research can give rise to useful and valuable materials. It’s possible to...
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Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

...business remotely over video calls is better than the alternative. Well, it is, and it isn’t. Of all the contributors to our digital carbon footprints, video is by far the heaviest. Internet- based video (streaming, video conferences, IP security cameras, gaming etc.) is also the fastest growing category of internet use. [Video conference] Since each and every byte of...
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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...business. Others, such as Richard Evans in his In Defence of History have directly countered the arguments of what is known as (perhaps unhelpfully now) postmodernism and defended the status of historical writing. Yet others have engaged with these trends and, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, tried to incorporate some new perspectives into their work. A positive...
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What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...business or starting a relationship. Whatever their personal interests, having aspirations gives them a direction for their future lives. [Young people watching the waterfront view mountains and rivers, natural atmosphere] Transition assessments and goal-setting Young adult carers often need support to plan ahead for their futures. If you are a young adult carer, you can...
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Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...business opportunity’). Ecopsychology rejects the hyper-separation of humans as exceptional and the value of nature being based on its usefulness to humans. Instead, it sees humans as embedded within, and dependent upon, our natural world...Week 1: The climate and ecological crisis and how we got here: 3.2 Consumerism - Especially since the 1950s, consumerism – the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...busy people!). You may act in a way to avoid this imposition and settle for shorter, more structured interviews. However, this will subsequently affect the quality of the evidence that you can collect and you may have to find some alternative data. Universities often produce lists of principles or ‘ethical guidelines’ that researchers are supposed to follow (for...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs