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Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...migrate to the centre. Once the surface of the wound is covered with a new, thin layer of cells, blood vessels form to service the new tissue, and slowly, a layer of scar tissue forms over the top. Healing, however, doesn’t always go according to plan. Many people with diabetes develop foot ulcers as an indirect result of chronic high blood sugar levels destroying nerve...
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...migrated to the newly created state of Pakistan following the partition of 1947. To me, a Muslim woman always wore a sari and covered her head only when she prayed in the privacy of her room. In downtown Karachi, I was well aware of the variety of women’s clothing within the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, from the baggy and brightly colored salwar kameez (trousers and...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...migration given that there's no legal precedent for doing so. To put it bluntly, the Canadian government simply wanted a white Canada. And they began with rather sort of direct, simple claims, such as it was too cold in Canada for the Indians or that they were culturally unsuited to Canada, you know, these commonsensical kinds of objections and closed, of course, in this...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...migrated to America from Iran as a teenager, says with complete sincerity that if observing audiences night in, night out has taught him anything, it’s that comedy can have a profound impact on how we feel, and even how we act. He recounts seeing people arrive at comedy clubs looking utterly miserable, but then leave with a smile on their face, visibly transformed –...
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...migration and immigration on the sense of ‘rootedness’ that people could experience in particular places in the UK in the 1980s, and the nostalgia that he saw as a response to this sense of uprootedness) as it is a criticism of heritage itself. He noted that the postwar period in the UK coincided with a period of growth in the establishment of museums and in a...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...migration and globalisation’ (Dinham and Francis, 2015, p. 16). It is the importance of religious literacy in this sense that we hope to promote with this course. We hope that you will come away from this short course with a greater appreciation of the variety and vibrancy of religion in contemporary Britain. We also hope you’ll have a growing appreciation of the...
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...migration, population policy or genetically modified (GM) crops. What would your students view as controversial? Would their opinions be the same? Comment It may be that river flood defence policy, building on the green belt, parking outside the school gates or wind farms are issues of more immediate relevance to you or your students. In reality, most geography topics...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...migration in a diverse British city. Milton Keynes is a large multicultural town in South East England, a commuter hub for London, where multicultural communities are the norm. As a result, the town presents a great case study for the religious changes that have marked British society since the late 1960s – when Milton Keynes was officially established. The structure of...