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Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability

...introduction to this album. What makes customers choose a green tariff? Customers who have opted for a green tariff talk about the reasons why they have decided to do so. The uptake of green tariffs Reasons why green tariffs are taken up by the minority in the UK. Living in a power station How a suburb in Holland is offsetting its power consumption by generating solar...
Living with visual Impairment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with visual Impairment

...introduction to this album. Visual Impairment Jackie's Experience Of acute transitory visual impairment as a result of MS, including her experience of difficulties with lighting and contrast. Emotional Impact Jackie talks about the emotional impact of losing her sight Nurse Support Jackie explains how nurses can support and empower people with visual impairments. Eating...
Water in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Water in Ethiopia

...introduction to this album. Water - a human right Access to water in Ethiopia can be a matter of life or death. This is brief look at the lives of people for whom an adequate water supply can never be taken for granted. Water in rural Ethiopia A day in the life of Yeshiemebet Zewdu., a local villager who lives with her husband and five children. Her daily tasks include...
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...Introduction This series of videos offers a chance to embark on an ‘International virtual field trip’. In addition to observing and thinking geographically, importantly there’s a lot of emphasis on listening to perspectives from across a range of contexts across the Global South. Although clearly not in the Global South, the International virtual field trip starts...
My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live
Society, Politics & Law

My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live

...meet, as Professor Allan Cochrane explains the motivations running through his work. It threads together studies of how people live, manage and organise their lives, drawing in both local and global networks of power and ideas. Cities allow us to understand, and are key parts of how, abstract theories and sweeping trends become grounded in local and everyday experiences....
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...introduction to the process of new drug discovery; from identification of a suitable candidate drug molecule to the development of a commercial drug product available in the clinic for pain relief or as an anti-inflammatory...Drug development process: combating pain, is a free course offering a brief introduction to the process of new drug discovery; from identification...
Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...Introduction - Welcome to this free course, Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis, which is designed to develop your writing skills for business. You will be taken step by step through the process of writing a SWOT analysis, with clear advice on selecting key information from a case study, making concise notes, choosing an appropriate structure and using...
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...management? PAUL WALLEY My interest is first provoked when I reviewed the progress of an IT project. The project didn’t seem to be going very well. And it became apparent quite quickly that one of the main issues was that of managing the stakeholders in the project. Their failure to engage the stakeholders has had a significant detrimental impact on the progress and...