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Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...et al., 1995) …trust is both the specific expectation that another’s actions will be beneficial rather than detrimental and the generalized ability to take for granted, to take under trust, a vast array of features of the social order. (Douglad Creed and Miles, 1996, p. 17) From these definitions of trust we can see a number of different issues emerge. Each definition...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...et cetera, et cetera. So it's either- some people see it as a good thing. It's different from what the West has done for 200 years in Africa. Some people will say, well, it's just the same as you know, Just because they're Chinese doesn't mean they're any different from what the West has done. So it's a kind of polarised position, and what we want to do with our own...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
About University Ready
Education & Development

About University Ready

...institution, and by subject area, so you can find the resources you need. It doesn’t matter which university you’re heading to, or even if you haven’t made your mind up yet. You can use all of the resources on our hub to find out more about university life. Take a look around and explore all of the different support on offer. University Ready was created with the...
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Article 5 mins
Re-assessing the Marquis de Sade
History & The Arts

Re-assessing the Marquis de Sade

...How did the revolution inspire and inform de Sade's writing, if at all? The historical aspect and de Sade's personal experiences are analysed and explained. Horror and imprisonment Imprisoned for much of his adult life, de Sade's writings are rife with institutional motifs. This discussion highlights and explains principal autobiographical and fictional examples....
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Audio 48 mins
An Untimely Death on Passchendaele Ward
Health, Sports & Psychology

An Untimely Death on Passchendaele Ward

...Institution. A death on the the ward leads to a lot of questions being asked. There are nurses self-medicating, patients acting as nurses, commissioners turning a blind eye. Who turns out on top, and what actually did happen that fateful night on Passchendaele Ward? In two of the audio tracks, service users, professionals and practitioners comment on the drama an some of...
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Audio 1 hr 23 mins
Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...Institute: information on classic films (clips only via a registered institution, but a good range of Empire Marketing Board film clips including less well known short films on British subjects) Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire This includes some films directly relating to the online articles above, for example from the EMB A silent film on the Wembley...
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Article 5 mins
Strategies to reduce the prison population
Society, Politics & Law

Strategies to reduce the prison population

...institutions of violence. Transformations must be voluntary rather than coerced. Prisons break rather than facilitate family ties and it is impossible to teach people how to live in freedom while in captivity. [View of HM Prison Dartmoor, a Category C men's prison located in Princetown, high on Dartmoor.] Princetown : HM Prison Dartmoor. Prisons are antiquated...
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Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south

...Institute and Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Leipzig. At SOAS, he previously served as Head of the Department of Economics and Member of the University’s Executive Board. Ulrich is Chairman of the Japan Economy Network and Co-editor-in-chief of the Asia Europe Journal. Ulrich holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin and was a Fox International...
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