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Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...concepts and frameworks of innovation and entrepreneurship to understand the strategy, process and operations of enterprises at different stages of their life cycle. The course also discusses the impact of innovation and entrepreneurship on society, both at a conceptual and a practical level, including ethics and sustainability, and the economic and social benefits to you...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...De Quincey shed a backward gleam upon his native place, which can still show the house where he was probably born and the grammar-school he certainly ran away from. In my forgetfulness, or my ignorance, that Manchester was the mother of this tricksy master-spirit of English prose, who was an idol of my youth, I failed to visit either house. The renown of Cobden and of...
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Article 10 mins
Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...de Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon. But Barker was emphatic in his wording when defending the show against these comparisons: There is no deception of glasses, or any other whatever; the view only being a fair sketch, displaying at once a circle of a very extraordinary extent, the same as if on the spot; forming perhaps, one of the most picturesque views in Europe. The idea...
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Article 5 mins
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...with the two sections on conflict in practice, you will be introduced to the basic concept of conflict for voluntary organisations and a perspective known as ‘agonism’ as a useful way for thinking about the issues ahead...Week 5: Generating good conflict in collaborative leadership: 2 Introducing agonism - The idea of agonism originates in political studies (Connolly, 2002 and 2005; Honig, 1993; Mouffe, 2009 and 2013),......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...concept of risk as being ‘an uncertain future outcome that will improve or worsen our position’. There are two implied elements about this definition that should be noted: it is probabilistic – the likely outcome can be assessed, but is not known with certainty it is two-sided – the outcome may be favourable or adverse. Strictly speaking, the ‘favourable or...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...prompted governments to team up with product developers to invest in improving the function of prosthetic devices. This led to the development of modern prostheses. Contemporary designs are now made of plastic, aluminium and, with the use of computer chips, are much more personalised, enabling amputees to enjoy greater quality of life (Norton, 2007). Present-day...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...wrote: ‘Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte_’._ –Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters, Letter XVI, December 1656. Translation: ‘I wrote this very long [letter] because I didn’t have the time to make it shorter’. What do you think Pascal meant by this? [Photo of Claire]Figure 8 ClaireShow descriptionA photograph of Claire. Claire, whose research looks for evidence of......
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Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...concept of a ‘home’ chord to orient the listener; we are aware when the music departs from the home chord, and aware when the music returns home (giving a feeling of completeness)...Week 3: Harmony: 1.1 Consonant and dissonant harmonies - When two or more pitches are sounded together to form a chord, the choice of the pitches combined is important. Not all...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs