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‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...managing environmental insecurity for countries such as China and the states of the Persian Gulf; countries that are vulnerable to the effects of hotter – and in some cases, drier – weather than temperate countries. [Described image] Figure 1 Fertile and agriculturally productive land is in demand from agricultural businesses. These images show (a) a combine harvester...
Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...Management Journal, 21 (5), pp. 565–577. Griffin, L. and Roy, J. (2019) ‘A great resource that should be utilised more, but also a place of anxiety: student perspectives on using an online discussion forum’. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning. doi: 10.1080/02680513.2019.1644159. Available at: www.tandfonline.com/ doi/ full/ 10.1080/...
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...projects over the last ten years or so, and I can certainly vouch for the fact that he isn’t just a brilliant academic, he’s a first rate communicator as well. In fact, once at a public gathering of historians I think I may have damaged his career very slightly by suggesting he would have also made an excellent television producer. Ian of course is one of the world...
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...eutrophication is a key element in maintaining the earths biodiversity. Eutrophication is a process mostly associated with human activity whereby ecosystems accumulate minerals. This free course, Eutrophication, explains how this process occurs, what its effects on different types of habitat are, and how it might be managed...Managing eutrophication is a key element in...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...projects of management, rather than rule, as an economic framing and economic ends replace political ones, a range of concerns becomes subsumed to the project of capital enhancement, recede altogether, or are radically transformed as they are ‘economized’. These include justice (and its subelements [sic], such as liberty, equality, fairness), individual and popular...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...project. But then they are shown the case detection data. The rats are saving lives every day, and, argue some advocates, the time has now come for dogs to do the same. There is a lyric of a Van Morrison song: ‘I can smell your TB sheets’. The first ‘Lancet letter’ came in 1989. Writing, as the name suggests, in the Lancet medical journal, a pair of dermatologists...
Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts

...manager in the Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire FDAC Katie, a parent who has been through the FDAC process. In the below clips, each of the five people discuss their experiences of FDAC. Listen to one or more of the audio clips, and then answer the corresponding question(s) in Activity 1. HEIDI ENGLAND: My name is Heidi England. My experience of FDAC was, obviously, I...
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...projection for example. You could see how that's happened on the whole national level and over the Brexit issue where we've projected all our fear of the future onto Romanian guest workers. Asa Bennett When you look at something like Brexit it does make sense of why the accusations of lying fly around because the stakes are so high and this is such an important process...