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Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...project, for example, or whether it is being used in a marketing sense, to lend increased value to a product. Discussion I found an article called ‘Clean lines for hospital fittings’: ‘More than 70 designers have teamed up …’ ‘A lot of hospital furniture has nooks and crannies that are repositories for bugs, so the challenge was to design those out.’ ‘The...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...manages to evoke the war as a whole. To take one example: Homer relates that, when news of the Trojan hero Hector’s death reached the Trojans holed up in the city, they wailed ‘as if the whole of jutting Ilium was now smouldering / with fire all the way from its top to its bottom’ (Iliad 22.410–411). Homer doesn’t need to narrate the fall of Troy because: (i)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...management, Operation Clean Sweep. The charity has worked on a number of projects including raising awareness of the environmental issues caused by the use of plastic cotton buds. Working at a local level they produce evidence and use this to lobby for change, both within the plastics industry and within the law. Working with other organisations their campaigns for change...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...project ‘Too Many Man: Women Of Grime’, a project consisting of ‘portraits, interviews, handwritten lyrics, live music shots and urban landscapes’ that attempts to bring greater visibility to the many women active in the scene (Ramsden, 2017). Ramsden self-published a crowd-funded photo-book of the project available to purchase directly through her website. The...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...managing the sitter. The photographer's role was to direct; the sitter's only response was to acquiesce. Sitters who expressed ideas of their own became, by definition, ‘difficult’. [Figure 12 A cartoon of a newborn baby being photographed] Image 12 Photographer/Painter: Anon. Subject: Photographing the first born. Photographers were warned against allowing their own...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...managing editor Helena Vieira during the Mobile Money and Financial Development Conference at LSE. Could you tell me briefly about your digital strategy? Ecobank is a pan-African bank. We’re in 33 markets in middle Africa. The aim of the bank has always been to foster inter-regional trade, inter-regional business. But with the change in digital banking coming in now,...
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Article 10 mins
“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...to the fore of efforts to secure language rights in the north of Ireland in the last decade. He is Communications Manager with Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League) and is Chair of Irish Language Community Group Gaelphobal Ard Mhacha Theas in South Armagh. Find out more To discover why the Good Friday Agreement matters in a wider context, why not try the courses below?...
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Article 5 mins
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...managed by local authorities, often at threat and sold off at times when local authorities are short of money. So I think allotments pose a number of problems in that they allow people to garden. When I had an allotment for a short time, [I] took a class of kind of twenty-odd twelve year-olds down so they could pull out a carrot and see what it was like. Laurie Taylor:...
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Article 15 mins