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This Sporting Planet
Society, Politics & Law

This Sporting Planet

...social meanings. Sport and Change Sue Tibballs chief Executive of the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) focuses on the role of women in sport and their representation. The WSF ensures that women are central to sport and not on the sidelines. Running for a Business Ed Warner is a city businessman who became part-time, non-executive chair of UK Athletics in 2007 and has had...
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Audio 1 hr 29 mins
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...social groups. So we have two impulses at work that are seemingly incompatible, or perhaps even in conflict, and the question we are faced with is how to render them as consistent, as both being part of the existence of a single entity we call ‘English’. This is one of the central issues in English language studies today – and it’s a very modern issue because it...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Public health communication during a pandemic
Languages

Public health communication during a pandemic

...social media messaging, billboards, letters, postcards, and phone calls to ensure everyone is included in the communications. A key part in this process of dissemination is to ensure the message is accessible by different people and communities and that it is available in the multiple languages used in communities. Organisations like HealthWatch are vital in this process,...
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Article 10 mins
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...social workers, we were going beyond sharing anecdotes as friends. We were also documenting how these systems have been built around certain assumptions about what’s ‘normal’: white, middle-class, non-disabled norms that shape whose voices get heard and whose get dismissed (Tyack, 1974). This is precisely why some scholars describe autoethnography as ‘a radical...
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Article 5 mins
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...working in an educational setting. It identifies and explores some of the key issues around teaching geography in secondary schools. Engaging with these issues and debates will help you to reflect upon and develop your practice as a geography teacher. You will also develop a greater awareness of the wider context of geography education and how this affects geography in...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...social media to portray a particular image to others is engaging in a form of marketing communications, with you as the brand. This course uses theories and models to explain marketing communications and provides examples of how to effectively manage the marketing communications process. The influence and impact of marketing can be seen all around. For instance, you may...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...social and cultural contexts for interpreting works of art analyse works of art in terms of different ideas and approaches...Art and the Mexican Revolution: 1 The Mexican Revolution - Before looking at one of Rivera’s murals, it is important to have some sense of the Mexican Revolution itself as the context in which it was produced. As early as 1924, the communist...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...working while their children are very young, or for social workers concerned about placing children who are at risk. Infants form attachments with those people around them who care for them sensitively and consistently. The more frequently, sensitively and consistently a person cares for an infant, the higher that person becomes in the infant’s ‘hierarchy of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs