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Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...Introduction - This free course, Making sense of mental health problems, explores some of the key ways of naming and making sense of mental health problems, such as psychiatric diagnosis, psychological formulation and social need assessments. There are both theoretical and practical concerns about categorising mental health problems and you will explore these in relation...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...Introduction When doing research in coastal areas, investigating peoples’ relationships with the environment, one of the most intriguing things I’ve noticed is how, even when faced with increasingly severe impacts of extreme weather events and rising sea levels, most people will do whatever they can to stay. It is an example of how, for most human beings, their sense...
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Video 15 mins
Measure the Pulfrich Effect
Science, Maths & Technology

Measure the Pulfrich Effect

...Introduction In this experiment you will be investigating a phenomenon known as the Pulfrich pendulum effect. As you might guess, it involves a swinging pendulum, and was first described in 1922 by a German physicist called Carl Pulfrich. This is a very simple effect to demonstrate, and to try it for yourself you need just three things: a length of thin string or thread...
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Video 15 mins
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...introduction to Joel Chandler Harris [journalist and (white) author of hugely popular stories drawn from African American culture]. I did not get there. On the way news met me: Sam Hose had been lynched, and they said that his knuckles were on exhibition at a grocery store farther down on Mitchell Street, along which I was walking. I turned back to the University. I began...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...Introduction - So how did an Assembly which was only just voted into existence gain enough power to call itself a Parliament and set taxes in less than 21 years? The answer is a series of reviews, reform and legislation – none of it easy. The purpose of this section is to set out that process in largely chronological order. Before doing that, it will be helpful to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...Introduction: Introduction - This free course, From Brexit to the Break-up of Britain?, is focused on the 2016 referendum vote on membership of the European Union. It aims to do so in ways that go beyond the familiar debates over whether the outcome was right or wrong. Instead it focuses on what the vote has to tell us about the United Kingdom and its future. In the 23...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Designing the Spanish nation
Languages

Designing the Spanish nation

...managed to return, finally getting its current sound and official status as national anthem in 1997. History goes that it was not the monarch, but the Spanish population who called it Royal March (Marcha Real) and adopted it as the hymn for their nation despite that it was simply that, a military march without lyrics, a march that no one could sing. This preference was...
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Article 15 mins
United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool
Society, Politics & Law

United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool

...managed by women, most from the immediate locality. [Save the Pool Activists Campaigning amidst the Tenements of Govanhill] Govanhill Baths is now far more than a swimming facility, important that this is. The project has grown to become a wide-reaching anchor organisation in the Govanhill area, as well as across the wider Southside of Glasgow. Throughout this...
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Article 5 mins