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In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing
Nature & Environment

In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing

...become an EU member re-joining the EUs Common Fisheries Policy?...The UK’s fishing industry has been long in decline, certainly a process predating EU membership. The outcome of the Cod Wars was a deal with Iceland that hit some of the major fishing communities hard. While the industry is now only a shadow of its former self, nonetheless in an island country such as the...
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Article 5 mins
How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...become so ubiquitous that ‘facepalm’ itself is starting to be used as a form of reflexive interjection in writing. So how about emoji? Is the same thing likely to happen with them? At the moment the evidence is slight. But there are indications that it’s beginning, at least in certain contexts. Unlike alphabetic writing systems, which allow an infinite number of...
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Article 20 mins
A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...become an organ donor and haven’t recorded an opt out decision. They remain at the centre of the decision-making process about organ donation and are asked to confirm consent for each specific organ and tissue donation. The sharing of donor families’ lived experience To share what it is like to go through this process, we made a film about organ donation with two...
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Video 15 mins
Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...become the most valuable asset on Earth while people are increasingly going without food and shelter. How can we design for people to have a home, while also regenerating the living systems on which we depend?...Like other wealthy countries, the UK now has swelling numbers of people whose needs for the basics – food and shelter – are not being met. The proportion of...
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Article 5 mins
Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...becoming a nightmare: Fanny Imlay committed suicide; Shelley’s wife drowned herself in the Serpentine; Mary and Shelley married and had a third baby, another Clara, in 1817, but she died the following year. Their grief was compounded when their precious William died of malaria in 1819. In his jotting book Percy wrote: My dearest M. wherefore hast thou gone And left me...
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Article 10 mins
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...ou même encore chaude, et c’est pour cette raison que les Français vont à la boulangerie de leur quartier au moins une fois par jour. La baguette est toujours le type de pain le plus répandu, mais il en existe beaucoup d’autres. Il y a de nombreuses sortes de pains blancs. On les distingue grâce à leur taille, de la ficelle à la flûte, et grâce à leur forme,...
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Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...students sat at the back behind a black curtain… The thought of my grandmother in a burqa is foreign to me. No one in our family now ever covers their heads or faces. When I asked my grandmother why, she replied, ‘We did so you wouldn’t have to.’ My great-grandfather, she explained, had not supported the cloistering of women, which in South Asia is called purdah...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...student accommodation in association with a private company who have built the student facilities. Other areas of the suburb are still ‘work-in-progress’. Next to the new block of flats is an area of cleared land which is awaiting new house building, where children have started to gather to play football and socialise. On the border of the wasteland is an uninhabited...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs