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Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...resources to their criminalisation. Thus these state and media processes were seen to criminalise certain groups and not others, while attention was argued to be deflected from the inequalities that shape the underlying social problems. Furthermore, through placing the spotlight on the power of these institutions, these newer perspectives argued that it revealed how the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...Human beings are social animals; the ‘ties that bind us’ together are at the centre of our shared lives. From the moment of birth, attachment relationships are crucial to our survival and well-being. Research into attachment – what it is, how it develops and its role in our adult relationships – is one of the most active areas of research in
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...resources to support a change in teaching method that they have been leading their colleagues to consider. This course adopts a critical perspective and argues that educational leadership and management are contested concepts. For example, we can question Cuban’s (1988) view that leadership and management are linked to role designations such as ‘team leader’ or...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Stories of Change Introduction
Nature & Environment

Stories of Change Introduction

...Humanities Research Council and we’ve got the goal of trying to loosen up public and political conversations about energy transitions. We asked the BBC’s Environment Analyst, Roger Harrabin, to go out to capture interviews with leading figures from research, business, politics, from a wide range of views, but we asked him to do something slightly different to his...
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Video 5 mins
Art, Loot and Empire: The Benin Bronzes
History & The Arts

Art, Loot and Empire: The Benin Bronzes

...human sacrifice, art theft, drum and fife bands, soap factories, maxim guns, and the Royal Irish Constabulary. But the story of the Benin Bronzes is still being written. Linda encourages us to consider what these artworks mean to us now, in the 21st century, as we live with the legacy of empire. What do they tell us about art, power, the links between big business and...
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Video 30 mins
World-Changing Women: Charlotte Maxeke
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Charlotte Maxeke

...involved in multiracial movements and was elected president of the Women’s Missionary Society. In 1928, after attending a conference in the USA she set up an employment agency for Africans in Johannesburg and was the first black woman to become a parole officer for juvenile delinquents. She died in Johannesburg in 1939. Learn more about African history and human rights...
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Article 5 mins
Water in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Water in Ethiopia

...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 several trips to a spring to fetch water...
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Audio 32 mins
Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...human body and 10% of our body weight. Most of them are in our gut and on our skin. Many microbes are beneficial, for example, helping us to digest our food. Only a tiny fraction cause disease, and are usually kept in check by our immune system. But when they aren't, microbes also help us to fight back. Bacteria cause disease when they are able to reproduce in the body....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs