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A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture

...based on race, ethnicity and colour have been brought back to the front of our minds following the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests which followed. It has stirred up complex and difficult emotions from all who identify with minority groups but there has also been an outpouring of support from people who call themselves ‘allies’. [black lives...
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Article 15 mins
Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...based on gender, race, ethnicity or religion, rather the way these social categories overlap in different spaces, such as work or public spaces, becomes key to understanding Muslim women’s lives and everyday experiences. Embodied intersectionality How do these concepts, embodied and intersectionality fit together? What is embodied intersectionality? Let’s refer back...
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Article 10 mins
Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...based organisations, to reach a broader audience and foster a two-way dialogue between researchers and community members. Moreover, the involvement of community members in the dissemination process can empower them, turning passive recipients of information into active participants in knowledge exchange. This participatory approach aligns with the Black feminist principle...
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Article 35 mins
Raising awareness and support for men
Health, Sports & Psychology

Raising awareness and support for men

...based Men’s Sheds: promoting male health, wellbeing and social inclusion in an international context’, Health Promot Int., 29(3), pp. 483–93. Mental Health Foundation (2022) Men and Mental Health. Available at: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/explore-mental-health/a-z-topics/men-and-mental-health Sands (2021) Sands United. Available at:
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Article 5 mins
Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?
Digital & Computing

Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?

...based exclusively on technical concepts. Yes, our education system must teach science, technology, engineering and mathematics to students. Humans are the weakest link in cybersecurity protection, which means that we must remain skeptical and security-minded whenever we’re online. Courses in the humanities, history and rhetoric assist in developing the critical thinking...
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Article 5 mins
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...based on colonial hierarchies of race, excluded Indigenous peoples not only from the realm of civilisation but from humanity itself. You will now learn how an example of a ‘shaman’ illustrates Tuhiwai Smith’s observation. The drawing shown in Figure 1 is one of the first recorded accounts of shamans, depicted by the Dutch statesman Nicolaes Witsen (1641–1717). The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...based in Bristol, mainly working with natural history. How I got started… Well, my kind of start off was when I was doing work in museum work, mainly Manpower Service Commission (it shows you how long ago it was) and voluntary work in museums and elsewhere including CSV, which was local radio Bristol, and I was doing work there when there was a local paper advert in the...
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Video 20 mins
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...based experiments using conditions that simulate early Mars to investigate how life could have grown on Mars and the bio-signatures it might have left behind. Can you describe the journey that brought you to this area of research? My introduction to microbial ecology came when I spent a year at the University of Aarhus while I was studying for my first degree, in biology,...
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Article 10 mins