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Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...working with children in trouble with the law. You will learn about the emergence of the youth justice system in England and Wales and how it has changed over the years. A comparative approach provides opportunities to learn about the approaches taken in Northern Ireland and Scotland. You will explore topical issues surrounding young people and crime, such as how rates of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...work) were regarded as belonging to the domestic sphere and stereotyped as ‘other’ by the men? Theme 4: Collaborative and independent work practices Which textile did you consider to be made more collaboratively? How might this distinction bear upon western views of the status of the cloth-makers concerned? These themes are further explored in A216, which includes...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...working as an independent producer, where you own the rights and the idea until you licence it to a broadcaster. When I realised that that’s how it worked, the whole intellectual property thing, I made a Natural World in the Sultanate of Oman many years ago and I’d done the legwork and got the access to what was quite a closed country then and some amazing wildlife...
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Video 40 mins
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...working in medicine now..." By the time Michelle Marineau saw her patient, James*, there was little she could do to help him. His big toe had been removed, a complication from years of uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, but the amputation site had stubbornly refused to heal. An infection had eaten away flesh and left tendon and bone exposed, streaks of off-white against the...
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Article 5 mins
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...work your way through Activity 4. Activity 4: The impact of mental health problems Timing: Allow about 15 minutes Select the answer for Question 1a here Think of a young person you know, who you think may have a mental health problem, or you are generally concerned about. If you can’t think of anyone, consider a fictional character, or someone older that you know. [Six...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...working out why you might initially disagree, and then deciding what the right questions to ask are. Those questions can be informed both by what you hear in the videos and the geographical thinking you may already have about the local and the global, social justice and inequality, and power and knowledge. In this way, you are joining and progressing the conversation, and...
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Article 5 hrs
About Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

About Stories of Change

...will work with the interviews to write papers and design teaching materials. They will also be presented in ways that connect them all on the Stories of Change web platform. To find out more about the project please go to http://storiesofchange.ac.uk/. To listen to the interviews head over to the main Stories of Change page. [Arts and Humanities Research Council Logo]...
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Article 5 mins
I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 2
Nature & Environment

I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 2

...of the problem and meets Erazmo, a mine owner who has spent 30 years trying to strike it lucky. The harsh working conditions and 16 hours shifts are brutal reminders to Charlie that both the rainforest and its inhabitants pay a high price for the bullion propping up the world banking system. Clip: The deadly process of illegal gold mining Clip: Meet the giant otters...
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Video 10 mins