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Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...health and wellbeing. Taking a critical eco-psycho-social perspective you will explore ideas from social theory, psychoanalysis, ecopsychology, eco-feminism and post-humanism to gain a deeper understanding of the climate and ecological crisis, its impact on our wellbeing and how to build psychological resilience...This free course introduces the emerging field of Climate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...Publicity about global flows of pollutants in the 1960s and 1970s drove many people to support environmentalism. More recently, ozone depletion and climate change represent perhaps the most dramatic evidence of globalised and linked processes of environmental change. [Figure 1] Figure 1 McDonald's – one of the emblems of economic and cultural globalisation – has made...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...public, if you comment on, or like a Page, all the information you share on that Page will be available to anyone on Facebook who looks at that Page. These types of Pages tend to be followed by students who want to stay connected to their institution, their halls of residence, their student union, society or their faculty at university. The value of Pages is that when you...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...public attitudes to the entry of migrants increasingly influence political agendas (OPAM 2018). As a result, migrants can experience harms and injustices. This is captured in this quote by Esteban Velázquez, a Jesuit priest and social activist, speaking of the need for an international tribunal on migration rights. ‘There’ll never be a thorough solution while...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Why is childbirth a medical procedure?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is childbirth a medical procedure?

...Health Organisation recommends that the caesarean rate should be no more than 10 – 15 per cent, the average caesarean rate across the UK is 22 per cent. Indeed, many hospitals in the UK now have caesarean rates that exceed 25 per cent (BirthChoice UK, 2005). Justification for the medicalisation of birth Several explanations have been put forward to justify the...
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Article 10 mins
Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?

...health difficulties. Some autistic people may internalise in specific contexts (e.g., school, work, social situations) but externalise in the safer and more familiar environment of the home. The role of masking or camouflaging Some autistic people develop strategies and behaviours to fit in socially or to appear ‘less autistic’, and this is known as ‘masking’ or...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...public services available online, and by equipping schools and local communities with computers. Another term you may have encountered is that of the knowledge society which refers to the way in which new information systems can transform human societies. Included in the knowledge society is the idea of the ‘learning society’. The pace of change is so rapid today that...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...health outcomes. [A row of figures in different shades.] Different academic disciplines ask different sorts of questions about race. For example, historians of race may be interested in understanding the development of the idea of race or of race relations over time, social scientists may be interested in gathering empirical data about how racial inequalities are produced...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs