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Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...social, political or cultural circumstances in which a person lives, particularly with respect to their effect on behaviour and attitude. This flexibility means it is a very convenient term that can be used in many situations. But this flexibility can create problems. Principal amongst them is reference to ‘the environment’...Environmental management and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg

...Work life balance in Welsh] Yn y gorffennol roedd ffin glir rhwng pryd oedd bywyd gwaith yn dod i ben a bywyd gartref yn dechrau... nid yw’r ffin hon mor glir bellach. Mae’r mwyafrif ohonom ni’n cael e-byst gwaith ar ein ffonau, sy’n golygu ein bod ar gael drwy’r amser ac mae pobl yn gallu cysylltu â ni unrhyw bryd. Mae hyn yn ei gwneud yn anodd iawn i ni...
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Article 10 mins
Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...socially stigmatised. Children were once punished for using their left hand to write. The percentage of left-handed people in the USA has grown from around 2-3% at the start of the 20th century, to around 12% today. Handedness is known to be substantially genetically inherited, and there is no evidence that any genetic shift happened over this time. But attitudes did...
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Article 10 mins
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...social technology, depend on many people working with it, developing and refining it, using it, taking it up, recommending it, and above all finding it useful. But not all technologies that succeed are the best – it depends on who builds the better networks, particularly of practitioners. As you experience the use of a particular systems method and strive to make it a...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...work is sometimes described as having elements of Cubism and Futurism. [EMB poster Motor Manufacturing] 'Motor Manufacturing', by Clive Gardiner, from the 'Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories' series of posters; 60 x 40 ins, displayed September 1928; Waterlow and Sons Ltd; EMB ref C1; (TNA) CO956/258 Any attempt to claim that EMB posters adopt particular styles to...
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Article 5 mins
Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...working in the health service and may not, therefore, be able to continue working if they have children to look after. This would result in a reduction of the health system's capacity to cope. Such a scenario may well have been a consideration in the UK government’s response so far, however, it would also imply policy options that, in this case, the government did not...
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Article 15 mins
On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...social insurance system. The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python. The issue of the safety of the NHS, and the ‘leave’ campaigners’ claims that money sent to Brussels could be spent on healthcare were further undermined when it emerged that the co-founder of the Leave.EU group, Arron Banks, did not support a state-funded NHS....
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Article 10 mins
Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...social divisions and tensions surrounding who can afford to live and work in cities where rental prices are soaring, and working-class communities are being pushed out. Thinking geographically about changing places Developing the skills to understand and analyse how places are changing is a central theme running throughout the new Open University module D225 Changing...
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Article 5 mins