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Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...interacting with someone from a different social group. In other words, where the group identity, the ‘group self’, as some people call it, is salient and is dominating the situation. So my example of when I’m in the United States, I’m seen as British is a situation where my ‘Britishness’ is salient. But it might be the same if I’m in the south of England or...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...social and human components identify different types of stakeholders and apply techniques to elicit the main interactions of stakeholders with systems analyse issues of power and conflict between stakeholder groups in IT systems...Successful IT systems: 1 Success and failure in IT systems - What makes an IT system a success and what makes it a failure? We have...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?
Nature & Environment

What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?

...interactions,” he says. This is not the first time the climate has warmed and the barren ground shrew’s range has decreased – but the current rate of climate change is unprecedented. Species such as these shrews have been responding to changes in climate through numerous climate cycles over hundreds of thousands of years. The issue is that the change going on now is...
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Article 5 mins
Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...interact with the world and what we might do to avoid climate breakdown. Stories can help to do that. Whether it’s the reflections on animal rights in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009), the setting of a future drought-ridden California in Alexandra Kleeman’s Something New Under the Sun (2021), or Montaigne’s observation on the...
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Article 10 mins
Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
Nature & Environment

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

...Pressure your local authorities to improve how they manage waste. 5. Want to learn more? Check out the OpenLearn course Science and Society. Find out more: https://www.unep.org/interactives/beat-plastic-pollution/ https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241516198 The problem with microplastics - YouTube Next steps to tackle plastic waste - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)...
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Article 10 mins
Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...
History & The Arts

Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...

...and spirits in everyday life, and look at our Spirit Trail which maps all the sites that have been registered for Spiritualist worship and services across the city since 1870. You may be surprised at what a magical and enchanted history this seemingly very prosaic city hides! If you enjoyed this why not visit our free interactive, Beyond belief: talking to the dead?...
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Article 5 mins
Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss

...Social Care courses and qualifications. Currently in the UK, 13 families a day suffer the heartbreak of losing their baby before, during or shortly after birth. That’s around 4,500 babies a year. And an estimated 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in miscarriage (Sands, 2023). Yet, while this number reveals the scale of the problem, much less is known about some of the ways...
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Article 5 mins
Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?
Society, Politics & Law

Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?

...social and economic situation in the country, after having made grandiose promises. Unemployment in Tunisia remains stubbornly high at 16%, and averages 40% among youth. There’s been a “security vacuum” in the country for more than two years. More than 30 national guards have perished in skirmishes along the Algerian border. A recent standoff in a suburb of Tunis,...
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Article 5 mins