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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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
FGM prevalence and healthcare planning
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM prevalence and healthcare planning

...education and prevention strategies over the decade. Data can also be gathered from referrals to safeguarding teams about girls at risk and from the record of the numbers of women and girls with FGM who accessed healthcare services. As useful as this type of data is it does not capture all girls and women living with or at risk of FGM in a country who are not referred to...
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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...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
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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...
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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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...education and other areas of policy implementation in Scotland. Throughout the twentieth century, housing, health, social services and other sectors came under the auspices of the Scotland Office in London. Devolution shifted responsibility to the reconvened Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in 1999 and along with this a range of other areas of public services were classed...
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Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...Education, Childhood & Youth...Understanding society: Families: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of some of the debates and key concepts involved in the study of family life; show the connectedness that has developed over time between the work men and women do inside the home and women's role in paid...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs