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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...becomes more intensive which means those areas that are dry today already will become dryer, and therefore the risk of drought and water scarcity will increase; whereas on the other side, where you are in zones of already abundant precipitation, we will experience more rainfall and a higher risk of flooding. So that's the first resource to which humankind and ecosystems...
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Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...become more concerned with increasing their research funding revenues, academic pursuits may be channelled solely into avenues that seek to satisfy the interests of particular research funders. This may call into question the extent to which academic freedom is able to flourish. 2. In relation to the specific issue of researching corporate crime, it is difficult to secure...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...become recognised as a distinct stage of life, and puberty was recognised as a significant ‘cause of insanity’. Maxime Durand-Fardel (1889), another doctor who was a pioneer in psychiatry, highlighted the existence of suicide in children. 1919–1930: educationists such as sisters Rachel and Margaret McMillan (1919) and Susan Isaacs (1929), who were pioneers in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...become an ‘insider-researcher’. For example, if you want to conduct your research project with HR managers and you are a HR manager yourself you will have a common language and a common understanding of the issues associated with doing the same job. While, on one hand, the insider perspective allows special sensitivity, empathy and understanding of the matters, which...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
How does rugby provide a focus for South African unity?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does rugby provide a focus for South African unity?

...Students at universities across the country have been campaigning to have statues of colonial leaders removed from places of prominence, the most notable being the Rhodes Must Fall campaign. This year, a court appeal to stop the Springboks playing in the World Cup transpired because it was argued that Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula and the South African Rugby Union had...
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Migration goes both ways: How Brits changed the world
History & The Arts

Migration goes both ways: How Brits changed the world

...students, economic migrants or refugees who are fleeing conflict. [The Sons of England War Memorial, Toronto] Toronto's Sons Of England War Memorial Heading stateside Initially, the US attracted a large number of immigrant agriculturalists, most of whom were farmers who wanted to escape the agricultural depression in Britain. But once the American Civil War had ended,...
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Can your friend be your therapist?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can your friend be your therapist?

...Student quoted in Leach, 2015) In contrast to friendships, the relationship between therapist and client does not rely on shared interests (other than a successful outcome of the therapy), and is not based on equality of status or reciprocity. In therapy there are clearly stated time limits and boundaries to the relationship, whereas in friendships the boundaries are less...
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Is the UK media failing Welsh voters?
Society, Politics & Law

Is the UK media failing Welsh voters?

...students in Scotland do not pay. In complex policy areas, of course, communicating news about devolved politics and making it relevant for all UK audiences is a more challenging task. As May’s devolved elections draw closer, this survey clearly highlights the need for people to be more regularly exposed to UK news about Welsh political affairs. But with debates about...
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