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Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...think END was, in a way, the intellectual wing. In a way, the movement, certainly in this country and perhaps all over Europe, was inspired by E. P. Thompson’s pamphlet Protest and Survive. But I think E.P. Thompson, an idea-- and Ken Coates and I was part of it --was that in the past, anti-nuclear campaigns were very easily dealt with by the establishment, because you...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...think of issues related to the environmental impact of the production and distribution of goods and services. Whilst the environmental perspective is certainly very important, it is not the only perspective. To get a holistic overview of supply chain sustainability, all the perspectives of supply chain sustainability should be considered. Once you have a general...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...think about taking other courses. ['Learning from sport burnout and overtraining' digital badge]...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each session of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes in Session 4 and Session 8 For all the quizzes, you can have three attempts at most of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...think there would need to be a huge number of different sorts of atoms to account for all the substances that exist and that can be made, but in fact there are just 118 different types of atom that have been observed. These are known as the chemical elements and of those 118, only about 90 occur naturally. Each element is represented by a chemical symbol, consisting of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...systems, in which sensors measure oxygen intake and carbon dioxide exhalations. Scientists know how much energy is used during the metabolic processes that create the carbon dioxide we breathe out, so they can work backwards to deduce that, for example, a human who has exhaled 15 litres of carbon dioxide must have used 94 calories of energy. The facility’s three...
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Video 5 mins
Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...system changeover. By thinking about the purpose of your meeting and the type of conversation you need to have, you can better prepare for the discussion and ensure a more constructive outcome. For example, Parminder could easily waste a week feeling defensive and arguing with team members about a system they don’t feel confident with. If she recognises that an...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...thinking and practical research methods in social sciences...In a complex and rapidly changing world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves and understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This free course, The social in social science, provides a...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...thinking – to help them form a view of the world. The research of Hodkinson and Hodkinson (2004) focuses on workers as individual learners, and how the individual is influenced by the wider culture of the workplace. Drawing on socio-constructionism, they suggest that there are four interactive dimensions of workplace learning: a worker applies prior knowledge,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs