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Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...Research Development, will meet with London Underground in future to discuss any performance-related pay scheme as part of a settlement reached with 20 black station managers. The managers claimed that the scheme, in place for the three years between 1989 and 1992, indirectly discriminated against them. Fatima Patwa, a solicitor for Brent Community Law Centre, which...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...research 20 minutes Arranged and led a planning meeting about forthcoming garden open day 45 minutes Helped move some boxes 10 minutes Talked to passers-by about the front garden 10 minutes Listened to a fellow volunteer’s concerns about the new expenses system 30 minutes Measured up space for a new shed 10 minutes Comment You may have found from doing this activity...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...research were asked to do the following task, which you should also try out. Take five minutes to ‘free-write’ on the subject of your relationship to a familiar place (make it an outdoor place, from the past or present). A free-write means writing spontaneously with minimum hesitation or revision. Now reflect on the following three questions: Describe your...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...researches and, unlike most of his contemporaries, was impressed by the notion of a field. However, Maxwell had his own reasons for believing in an ether. In particular, he believed that an ether was necessary to account for the propagation of light, which was generally regarded as a kind of wavelike disturbance and was therefore thought to require a medium just as ocean...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...researchers, bankers, lawyers, steel erectors, bricklayers and joiners, machinery sales people … and engineers. So who or what are engineers and what do they do? Ask this question of people in the street and you are likely to get many different answers. Some may think of building things, such as bridges or skyscrapers; some may think of repairing things like cars or...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...research in international law...The use of force in international law: 1 History of the law on the use of force - For centuries, states have resorted to force in their international relations in order to achieve particular, desired aims. The use of violence has proved to be an accepted, although tragic in its consequences, method of resolving disputes between states....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...research in palliative and end-of-life care, but what do they really mean? As an anthropologist, it took me a while in my field work in hospitals, hospices, and care homes in England, to figure out that these phrases were code. Code language can be really useful, if you want to keep information between certain groups of people only, but when talking about end-of-life...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...researchers need to look at lots of people’s experiences. However, they cannot just ask people ‘are you experiencing the Third Age?’ because most people would not know what that meant. They could ask them about their experiences of ageing and whether they feel they are in a period of self-fulfilment, but this would probably involve quite a lengthy explanation and...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs