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Revolutions of the Sixties
History & The Arts

Revolutions of the Sixties

...social revolutions of the 1960s impacted upon American rock musician Janis Joplin (1943–1970). You’ll consider the extent to which the contemporary sexual revolution brought about greater gender equality for female popular musicians such as Janis Joplin and consider whether it might be more accurate to view this as a superficial revolution which masked the reality of...
Voices from the Global South: confronting climate coloniality
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: confronting climate coloniality

...Find out more about D113 Global Challenges: social sciences in action, and the qualifications Geography and Environmental Studies offers. Acknowledgements Thank you to Professor Farhana Sultana, India Logan-Riley, Steve Ratuva, Saleemul Huq, Mia Mottley, Tracey Bunda, Hugo Romero, Philile Mbatha, Poshendra Satyal and Michael Meadows for contributing to the videos....
Science Communication and Public Engagement
Science, Maths & Technology

Science Communication and Public Engagement

...social networking will professional science broadcasting still retain significance in the future? Is there a role in this new digital world for printed journals and other forms of ‘traditional’ media? Dr Richard Holliman leads discussions exploring the history of science broadcasting and looks at whether emerging forms of user-generated content provide new...
Imperial Rome and Ostia
History & The Arts

Imperial Rome and Ostia

...of the lavish Pantheon Temple. The Baths of Caracalla Roman baths acted as urban social spaces, like the leisure centres of modern world. This video track explains the routine a Roman might go through upon visiting the baths. The dome of the caldarium This video concludes how the Romans were excellent developers of technology, but not necessarily very inventive....
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...work and ideas of some significant contemporary music educators. Now listen to an introduction to this course by its author, Gary Spruce: Welcome to the Open Educational Resource Course: Teaching Secondary Music – Issues in Practice. Hello, I’m Gary Spruce. I’ve worked for many years in music education as a secondary school teacher and in initial teacher education....
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...working for institutions concerned fundamentally with operating within and protecting the Constitution. We know that large organisations are subject to regime change. Regime change can and repeatedly does put even the core structural principles and values of any institution in jeopardy. Institutional memory fades and anything can be sacrificed to the agenda of the...
Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...work has more than borne out his theories, explains Peter Skelton...[An ammonite fossil embedded in rock.] We tend to think of Charles Darwin as a kindly-looking old man with a big beard, but let's wind the clock back to the vigorous 22-year old embarking in 1831 on the voyage of a lifetime around the world on the survey ship, HMS Beagle. Recently down from Cambridge, his...
Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change

...Working Group II of IPCC on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. He was Lead Author for the Third, Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports in the field of agriculture, forests and ecosystems and shared the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007. He has contributed to international research programs (GCTE, Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems; GCP, Global Carbon Project) and to...