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A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
Health, Sports & Psychology

A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities

...education and the criminal justice system, to name a few. Stereotypes abound regarding Black and minority ethnic people in relation to how pain is experienced, which are based on myths that have been perpetuated from the days of transatlantic slavery and ‘race science’ where Black bodies had been thought not to experience pain (for example, the experiments of Marion...
Hip Hop and the Institution
History & The Arts

Hip Hop and the Institution

...educational practices or amplifying oppressed voices) and articulate political critique and push for social justice and decolonisation. With rising social inequalities, global threats like the resurgence of fascism, genocides and the climate collapse, the relationship between Hip Hop and the Institution will only become thornier, and so the conference has laid out the...
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...Introduction to business agility: Introduction: why improve ways of working? - With the latest technology-led revolution, we have gone from the Age of Oil and Mass Production, where work was mostly repetitive and knowable, to the Age of Digital, where work is mostly unique, time-sensitive and unpredictable. Like going...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site (Bassi & Kettunen, 2008). In the end, the 2007 fires burned right around the edges of the site. None of the ancient ruins were burnt. However, the surrounding landscape and even the culturally significant Kronios Hill, which forms part of the site, were severely affected. The two images below...
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...technology and automated processes. Agile manufacturing (Kidd, 1994) which emphasises the need for an organisation to be able to switch frequently from one market-driven objective to another. Again, agile manufacturing has only become feasible on a large scale with the advent of enabling technology. In various ways, these approaches all seek to combine the high volume and...
Risk management Badge icon
Money & Business

Risk management

...education. The course particularly benefits all those engaged as risk managers, those seeking to develop their risk management capabilities and those, like board members, who have ultimate responsibility for risks within their organisations. Additionally all those with, or seeking, a career in management in any organisation will benefit from the understanding of risks and...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...educated in England, to have lives and good jobs, because they fought a lot for that. So to come here and show any weakness, or shame, or negativity in any way wasn't an option. So it was always about hiding all of that and not talking about it. And also I found religion was another big thing. So it was all about pray and turning to God, and I also felt like if we did...
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...education. Involving people with lived experience can give prominence to elements of knowledge that are not always visible in academic publications and these insights can highlight how social work practice is experienced in everyday life. Hearing directly from people who have interacted with services can challenge assumptions and encourage students to reflect on how their...