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Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside
Society, Politics & Law

Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside

...research on Red Clydeside as evidence of its continuing interest for historians. Section j. Biography also provides only a sample of the biographical material which exists but selects examples which have broader comments to offer on Red Clydeside. The final two sections (k. Red Clydeside in music and art; l. Short video footage via Facebook) reflect on the legacy of Red...
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Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy

...research question being addressed. Each type of microscopy has its own advantages and limitations, which you will explore as you learn more about the three types. Examples of cells visualised with each technique are shown in Figure 4. [Described image] Figure 4 (a) Light microscopy image showing the protein of interest stained brown. (b) Fluorescence microscopy image with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...researchers use the terms ‘emotion’ and ‘mood’ interchangeably. The basic disagreement seems to be about whether it is important to recognise that one state (emotion) is normally associated, by the person experiencing it, with a particular object or cause, and the other (mood) is often not. What difference might this make? Some evidence suggests that a particular...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?
Society, Politics & Law

Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?

...research has shown that juries can be subject to biases that can impact the decision-making process when rendering a verdict (Willmott, 2019). These biases can include pre-trial publicity bias (Ruva & Coy, 2020), racial bias (Curley et al, 2022b), rape myth bias (Dinos et al, 2014), and social media influence (Taylor & Tarrant, 2019), all of which can lead to a lack of...
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Women and the fight to reclaim higher education
Society, Politics & Law

Women and the fight to reclaim higher education

...research-only staff. Workloads are also extremely high, with reports of academic staff working on average two days unpaid per week. The pay gap between Black and white staff stands at 17%, and the disability pay gap is 9%. The mean gender pay gap is 16% and at the current rate of change it will not be closed for another 22 years. (More information on the dispute is...
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Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters

...research published in 2011 showed the UK newspapers commonly ridiculed vegans and veganism. Vegans can be portrayed as angry, as militants as joyless, as faddist or as overly sentimental. As more people try veganism and meet other vegans in their daily lives the more tone-deaf these stereotypes sound. So why is it that these stereotypes can still persist? Well as...
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A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...children who have acquired massive amounts of cultural information that wasn't available to us when we were their age. On the missing link between genes and cultural information: We know obviously that genes build bodies, and we know that they build brains and the kind of brains we have are very, very interesting and unusual for a primate. And one of the main things that...
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Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...research by Bournemouth University, change how the wider public thought about para sports: The participants were interviewed in four phases before and after the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and Dan said that, before the event, there did not seem to be much change in the way people were talking about disability and disabled sports. "There were a lot of barriers - people...
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