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Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...social enterprises or start-ups looking for funding to sustain small-scale projects, campaigns, or a new product. Even individuals usually refer to P2P lending or crowdfunding to sustain small-scale projects. Crowdfunding has been very important in the music industry as well. If you have time, have a look at this story about crowdfunding in music...Organisations and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...social benefits deriving from science and technology. Due to this conflict, patent laws that are strong for protecting private interest are thus weak for protecting the public interest, at least initially. The protection of intellectual property rights by law may not be in the wider social interest...Software and the law: 3 IP rights: copyright, patents, marks and brands...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...social and political issues. No individual can be expert in all of these disciplines, but the SHE manager should be able to appreciate the different perspectives and to recognise the trade-offs that are inevitable. Measure – ‘When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it.’ So said Lord Kelvin, the scientist...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...social behaviour Case study: Repeat attendances at A&E In November 2021 the BBC reported new analysis by the British Red Cross of NHS data on regular Attendance at A&E departments. They discovered that less than 1% of the population account for 16% of all A&E attendances, with just 0.7% of the population accounting for 29% of ambulance journeys and 26% of unplanned...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...social, psychological and ideological. Summaries of Tiger's descriptions of each are given below. Examples are added to demonstrate how each of these components might be relevant in the context of products...People-centred designing: 12.1 Gathering data - In this section I will review some of the approaches and methods used by companies for identifying and exploiting...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...socially? Activity 4 Poetry Now read the following poem: Fleur Adcock, ‘A Surprise in the Peninsula’ (2000 [1971]) What do you consider its key qualities or elements? What effect do they have on you as a reader? Jot down your thoughts in the box below. Discussion The following excerpt from an essay written by the critic and poet Ruth Padel provides answers to these...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...socially, environmentally attractive. This is a much better way to grow and develop, and that’s been the lessons of the last seven or eight years. So I’m very optimistic about what can be done. What will be done is a separate question. I’m less optimistic about what will be done, but you can’t create the political will for action as a community unless you show the...
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Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...social commentator Donna Haraway, who in an influential essay entitled ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ back in 1985 made the broader case that as technologies infiltrate and become entwined with our daily lives, “we are all… fabricated hybrids of machine and organism. In short, we are cyborgs.” One influence on cyborg subculture is transhumanism, a movement that believes...
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