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What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?

...social care and education professionals. Are you a young adult carer? Alternatively, if you are a South Asian parent of a young person, perhaps your daughter or son is a carer? What do South Asian young adult carers do? We are carrying out research with South Asian young adult carers living in England (see below). We interviewed them about what their caring roles involve....
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Article 5 mins
Design ecologies animation
Science, Maths & Technology

Design ecologies animation

...social and ecological impacts, including the legacy of waste generated by consumer products. Design ecologies explore the entire system, mapping resources, flows, and interactions at various scales and geographies. This animation uses a smartphone as an example to introduce the concept of design ecology through addressing ways to reduce the phone’s environmental impact....
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Video 5 mins
Art history: C17th to C19th
History & The Arts

Art history: C17th to C19th

...Christ Church, Spitalfields This film looks at the urban development of Spitalfields, London, revealing the artistic and political messages encoded in Hawksmoor’s monumental church. Kedleston Hall What lies behind a façade? Studying the influences on the once-radical design of Kedleston Hall reveals social and intellectual preoccupations that play out to this day....
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Video 18 mins
The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...social behaviour and poor educational attainment (Kincaid et al., 2019). These risk factors reflect a variety of complex processes including children being separated from their parent and the disturbance this causes; financial struggles; stigma and difficulties in trying to keep in contact with the imprisoned parent (Murray & Farrington, 2008). It can be extremely...
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Article 5 mins
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...works, and identify how language connects ideas and keeps a listener engaged...This hands-on course will give you the skills and knowledge you need to create and deliver confident presentations and speeches. This free course introduces the mechanics of effective, persuasive oral presentations, by giving you the opportunity to analyse examples and then create your own....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...social relations (Harvey, 2010). Approaching this issue from entirely different ideological perspectives, Karl Marx in the nineteenth century and Joseph Schumpeter in the mid twentienth century both recognised technological and organisational innovation as a fundamental feature of the ‘creative-destructive’ tendencies of capitalism, although the extent to which the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...worked in Luxembourg for a few months. In the following video he puts his French to the test to buy saucisson lyonnais (a type of sausage). Activity 1 Watch the video and write your answers to the questions in the boxes below. Shop assistant: Bonjour, Messieurs. Dave and Si: Bonjour, bonjour, Madame. Shop assistant: [laughs] Dave Myers: Madame, Je cherche la saucisson...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...work or the cause they are campaigning for. Social media played an important role in relation to the ‘Mystery zebras’ in Hackney. The ‘Mystery zebras’ were not only linked to an online petition, but they were also commented on in blogs (for example, click the following link to read the article ‘Mystery zebras earning their stripes at Hackney’s killer...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs