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Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...human rights issues, as well as several other countries often referred to as ‘tax havens’, whereby little or no tax is paid and where transparency in ownership is not always required. And there is also pattern as to where these properties have been built, too. New housing developments are predominantly in central and waterside locations in the two cities, such as the...
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How can we improve teaching about Islam?
Education & Development

How can we improve teaching about Islam?

...humanities, have an important role to play in this religious literacy, that helps students understand the unity in the diversity. After all, as the most popular poet in America, the 13th-century Muslim mystic Rumi wrote: All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read...
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Understanding the realities of invisible disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding the realities of invisible disabilities

...human diversity, will increase awareness and acceptance. There are also practical ways in which education settings, workplaces, and social spaces can create more inclusive environments, such as: develop a culture of trust where disclosures are accepted without unnecessary challenge offer flexibility such as varied work patterns or assessment methods ensure processes for...
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The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.
Society, Politics & Law

The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.

...human factors in legal layperson decision making: Sources of bias in juror decision making. Medicine, Science & the Law. Doi: 10.1177/0258024221080655. Devine, D., & Caughlin, D. E. (2014). Do they matter? A meta-analytic investigation of individual characteristics and guilt judgments. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 20, 109-134. doi: 10.1037/law0000006. Devine, D.,...
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The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...human rights’ groups are campaigning against Roma prejudice. In July 2020, the president of the European Commission called on Member States to ‘end racism and discrimination, which blatantly affects our large ethnic Roma minorities’. Across the UK, hate crime is a criminal offence and it includes online and offline hate speech. The Roma themselves don’t want to be...
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How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...humans, the scorpion’s sting can cause excruciating pain, convulsions, paralysis and potentially even death (owing to heart and respiratory failure), but most affected humans will just suffer extreme pain in the region of the sting, along with drowsiness, fatigue, splitting headaches and joint pain. These symptoms will sometimes persist for months. They are caused by...
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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...human activities are responsible for the enhanced greenhouse effect. More heat is being ‘trapped’ in the atmosphere than it otherwise would be, known as global warming, which is in turn resulting in our climate changing. A carbon footprint can also be calculated for an event such as a music festival, or for making and distributing a product such as a car or computer....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...resource for music studies. As you read, make a note of the influences from other disciplines listed in the extract. Extract 1 Vincent Duckles and Jann Pasler, ‘The nature of musicology’ The term ‘musicology’ has been defined in many different ways. As a method, it is a form of scholarship characterized by the procedures of research. A simple definition in these...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs