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The benefits of a longer product life
Science, Maths & Technology

The benefits of a longer product life

...health and climate, it is perhaps useful to consider how we can develop capabilities for the care of our material world and provide new opportunities to decarbonise our product environment through better design and different practices of use. In the last fifty or so years we have seen huge advancements in technology and yet product lifespans, in many cases, have decreased...
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Article 10 mins
St Lucia reimagined: marketing a Swedish festive icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

St Lucia reimagined: marketing a Swedish festive icon

...of pure foods in Great Britain’, Discourse, Context and Media, 34, doi: 10.1016/j.dcm.2019.100325. Runefelt, L. (2024) ‘A Cheap and Tasty Way to Health: Advertising Coffee Substitutes in Sweden, 1870–1914’ in L.A. O’Hagan and G. Eriksson (eds) Food Marketing and Selling Healthy Lifestyles with Science: Transhistorical Perspectives. London: Routledge....
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The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times
Society, Politics & Law

The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times

...Health & Wellbeing Company. They obtained the right to do so when the original owners sold up and left for South Africa in the 1930s, where they founded the British & African Cereal Company. As was actually rather common during the empire, the company subsequently expanded to the UK, buying a disused Northamptonshire mill at Burton Latimer to market its product, which put...
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Article 15 mins
Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser

...health and women’s rights. She noted she had her name on 400 pieces of legislation, and stressed her ability to do hard political work on a bipartisan basis. Clearly she had her own prepared formulas. On many occasions she began her responses to Trump’s comments by saying “much of that is not right”, and repeatedly implored people to fact-check Trump’s...
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History and hope: Education for girls in South Sudan
Education & Development

History and hope: Education for girls in South Sudan

...health and aspirations, and the likelihood that they will settle and use their skills locally. Education is hugely important, regardless of gender, for countries where there has been conflict and displacement because education is something a person carries with them throughout their life. This provides hope for South Sudan and we celebrate its education pioneers. A call...
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Article 5 mins
Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...health). Changes can be positive or negative, expected or unexpected, planned or unplanned. The impact of the change can sometimes be experienced in contrast to the nature of the change itself: a positive change can have negative impacts, and vice versa. For example, a positive change such as business growth and expansion, or changes to a job description, can lead to a...
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Article 10 mins
Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...health and employment outcomes of this cohort as they grow up. The methodology was also interesting: the study collected data from a recruited representative sample. It is significant that the Department for Education chooses not to use and report on data about progress against ethnicity that it already has, to give a fuller picture. Higher Education does. Not engaging...
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Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...public sphere, civil society – you need to understand and adapt to the changing world that brings many challenges. Successful leadership requires you to reconsider what it means to lead in turbulent and precarious times. In this short course you will have the opportunity to understand and explain how leadership changes in accordance to the needs of turbulent...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs