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Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...social profiling is not already happening, it’s fair to assume that it will and should. It seems difficult to argue that whatever can be done to stop such outrages and threats to social cohesion happening should be done. But the day-to-day tedium of increased security pales into significance to the longer-term consequences of such acts. Governments flounder in the face...
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Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...Social Research Council blog, suggests that in half a century's time, we may have made those desicions: I argue that this case perfectly illustrates the importance of feminist sociology and of incorporating its research findings and theoretical concepts into a wider scientific and social context. If this incorporation will continue to take place over the next 50 years, we...
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Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...socially engaged artist; he strives to create something that will generate debate, a platform for communication, and occasionally activism: “even when I do produce artifacts, such as the New Union Flag, they can be seen as ‘agitprops’ (props that can agitate in order to provoke dialogue), which in turn can be used in social and political events"; they go beyond the...
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Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?

...social upheaval among the BAME population in the UK and USA. Be it the high proportion of deaths among the BAME community from contracting COVID-19 or unarmed black men and women being killed unjustly by the police. So, as a black British man with Nigerian parents, I must express my views from a sports and physical activity viewpoint. Can Sports be a beacon of hope in...
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Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...interact with that target. Ideally, the target structure is then crystallised along with the bound lead compound. X-ray crystallography is used to determine the crystal structure which can be studied using molecular modelling software to determine how the lead compound binds to the target site. Such studies can be used to guide the medicinal chemist to the analogues which...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...social scientist: Transcript Roisin Kelly: Hello Bill. I just want to ask why are murals of interest to you as a social scientist? What made you want to study them? Bill Rolston: If it doesn’t sound too much of a cliché, because they’re there is the first answer. Let me explain that. In 1981, there was quite literally an explosion of murals in Belfast and other parts...
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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...social policy, the tax credit system. Introduced in 2003, it was designed to help those on low incomes and whose social circumstances prevented them from working full-time (Citizens Advice Bureau, 2005). The article reprinted in Box 1 indicates the extent of the political unrest with a system that left families relying on food parcels, and that has been variously...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...social media sites. Activity 1 (exploratory) Growth in use of technologies Can you think of another technology that has made the transition from novel to commonplace, like telephones and computers? Discussion There are many possible answers to this question. We thought of washing machines, which have advanced from hand-driven drums to the automatic machines of today. Box...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs