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Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...research in neuroscience has begun to cast some doubt on the idea that rationality, at least our rationality, is an autonomous domain that can function independently of emotion. It seems that an absence or distortion of normal emotional functioning can lead to breakdowns in rationality. People who suffer certain kinds of damage to those parts of the brain thought to...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...researched whilst others have simply proven effective in practice. It is part of your own development and learning to decide which of these ideas prove useful to you...Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!: References - Taylor, F.W. (1998) Principles of Scientific Management, New York, The Dover Press...Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!:...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...researchers may also be engaged to ask questions about the potential design. In the past, the role of the designer was reasonably clear; the designer was the person who came up with the ideas and presented them to the client, who then chose the one they liked best. Designers also tended to stick to specific disciplines: graphic designers concentrated on graphics,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...research and Indigenous peoples. New York, NY: Zed Books. Tully, T. (2022) ‘Were all religions at one time “Indigenous”?’, in M.H. Bassett and N. Avalos (eds) Indigenous religious traditions in 5 minutes. Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing, pp. 9–11. Wenger, T. (2022) ‘Why does the title of this book use the phrase “Indigenous Religious Traditions” rather...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...research fellow at Bristol University and the author of The Cost of Inequality. STEWART LANSLEY The wage share is basically the share of the total output in the economy that goes to the workforce in the form of wages. And essentially, what has happened over the last 30 years is that share, the wage share, has been shrinking. So the share of the economic pie, if you like,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...research activity in Activity 5 now to find out. [Detail from a woodcut depicting ancient herbalists and scholars.] Figure 4 Herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore ‘Herophilus and Erasistratus’ Activity 5 Go online and see what other definitions of health you can find, paying particular attention to their origins. Are they written by patients or doctors? Do they...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...research effort to produce vaccines which would induce antibodies against the spike protein. The production and distribution of millions of doses of vaccine followed on rapidly, and this required equally heroic efforts in biotechnology and logistics. Understanding how the immune system protects against viruses and how this knowledge can be applied to vaccine development...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)
Languages

Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)

...Research has overwhelmingly concluded that bilingualism per se does not have any negative effects on cognition. In fact the opposite increasingly appears to be the case: that high levels of bilingualism have accelerating effects on children’s cognitive development.’...Cànan nan Gàidheal: 4.1.2 Ag ionnsachadh chànanan eile - Tha daoine a bha fileanta ann an dà...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs