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Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...health, drain economic resources, contaminate water supplies, leave significant toxic waste, advance the extinction of plant and animal species, and contribute to climate change (UNEP, 2022). As a result, it is important to understand the complex reasons why wildfires happen and what might be done to reduce their recurrence, intensity, and impact. This free course,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...public spaces and one of their arguments was that that was because young women were primarily living out their cultural lives in the domestic sphere, their bedrooms were about training up to be wives and mothers, they had domestic responsibilities, they didn’t necessarily have the freedoms of their male counterparts. And of course bedroom spaces were not easily...
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Article 10 mins
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...public talks I give, people want to know about what’s happening in the world, so it’s only my personal ideas, but I think people really are interested in environmental issues. Has natural history broadcasting fully covered the global decline in wildlife? I really don’t think natural history broadcasting has got even close to telling that story. I think that the fact...
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Video 20 mins
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...public eye to share that he was HIV positive and later died due to complications from illness. Stormé DeLarverie 24 December 1920 – 24 May 2014 It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience – it wasn’t no damn riot. Stormé DeLarverie was a lifelong LGBT activist and drag performer who played an important role in the Stonewall rebellion...
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Article 20 mins
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...health hospital. Now he was dead. I lived in the street for three more years. When I left, Jonny’s house had been boarded up, the windows barricaded with sheets of rusted metal. The only window left untouched was the one at the top, the one through which the neighbours used to hear him sing. *** When someone dies by suicide, they leave behind questions. Attend a wake or...
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Article 15 mins
Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...Health Authority for the first three years of the project. This was to pay the wages of a co-ordinator, an administrator and two sessional nursery nurses. At the outset, the project (as it was called) was located in the health centre in the hope that it would become an arm of the Local Health Authority. Dr Clarke, however, recognised that the process for this would be...
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Article 15 mins
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...publication like a guide or textbook or even a memoir. You want to investigate a topic or question that interests you. This is one of the best reasons for undertaking PhD study, provided that your proposed research will potentially make an original contribution to psychological knowledge and the discipline. Personal interest is therefore important, but it is not the only...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...public. It also led to anxieties about how to manage the increasing amount of books, resulting in ingenious solutions, such as Agostino Ramelli’s ‘book wheel’, a rotating bookshelf and desk. [This is an illustration of a person using a book wheel.] Figure 1 Agostino Ramelli’s book wheel. The arrival of a new medium, however, did not mean that previous ones were...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs