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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...humans are causing some part of that warming and that we should probably do something about that, perhaps adapt to that warming; but they disagree with perhaps the rate of change that’s been predicted – they think it’s slower or at the lower end of predictions, and perhaps they don’t really agree with the kind of standard, fairly accepted mitigation options out...
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Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...resources and support: how do you ask people for something? You are fundamentally in ‘the asking business’ – so what are the core processes and skills of asking? ‘Making the ask’ is a phrase which is often used to describe this absolutely vital feature of your work. Your work may involve all sorts of activities. But your success and effectiveness in securing...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...human-centred approach to change, by putting the needs of people at the heart of your initiative and considering more sustainable ways of working. We focus on functional and operational changes that help organisations deliver their strategies, rather than organisational changes, as these tend to be the change initiatives that most members of an organisation frequently...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...human cell were uncoiled, stretched out straight and laid end to end, they would measure about two metres. If all the DNA in all your cells were stretched out end-to-end, it would reach to the Moon and back about 10 000 times! If you look at the comparatively short sequence of 50 bases printed above, and think about how many ways a simple coding language of just four...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...human beings. They are precisely in the same condition that I am in: they must either live in the lie or see the terrible truth. Why should they live? Why should I love them, why guard, raise and watch them? Is it for the same despair which is in my, or for dullness of perception? Since I love them, I cannot conceal the truth from them, – every step of cognition leads...
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Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...human-centred approach to planning, draws on the Future Generations Commissioner’s resources and introduces you to ‘recognised’ approaches. These methodologies will help you understand the needs of your organisation to evolve their ways of working, particularly in hybrid working and digital transformation. It is part of the Supporting hybrid working and digital...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...human senses – a process that will always involve an element of subjectivity. So, scientific theories are not infallible, and even when there is robust evidence, human values, ethics and beliefs may result in competing views. We are left to judge which theory or finding is valid. Metcalfe (2014, p. 11) found that some primary school children believed that scientists...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Social psychology: sense-making in crises
Society, Politics & Law

Social psychology: sense-making in crises

...human sense. It is, as this free course will show, at the heart of a social psychology that is responsive to the specific concerns of the twenty-first century – the fast shift in perspectives; the innovations changing our very ways of life; the permanent crisis involving political and social dimensions. In response to this, you will be introduced to a version of social...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs