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Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...research, data led insights. But also, let's not forget, there is a little bit of intuitive experience that we're bringing to bear. We have been through an unprecedented pandemic. Some of the work we've done has not been evidence-based because we've just had to get on and do it. And I think it has given confidence to the balance between trying to go to place everything...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...research of Indigenous peoples was carried out in their own environment. In this session, you will consider two contrasting examples of human exhibitions...Session 2: Human ‘zoos’ in the nineteenth century: 2 Sarah Baartman, the ‘Hottentot Venus’ - [A promotional poster which reads: ‘Now exhibiting at No. 225, Piccadilly, the top of the Hay-Market, from twelve...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...research (this characterisation of the debate is strongly influenced by Boswell, 1999)...What is heritage?: 3.1 The heritage ‘industry’ - In the late 1980s English academic Robert Hewison coined the phrase ‘heritage industry’ to describe what he considered to be the sanitisation and commercialisation of the version of the past produced as heritage in the UK. He...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...research. Menninger, Karl, Number Words and Number Symbols (MIT Press, 1969; orig. edn. 1958). More full detail of the history of numbers, particularly attentive to linguistic evidence. Neugebauer, Otto, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity (Dover, 1969; orig. edn. 1949).A highly readable account by one of the most eminent of modern historians of the period, van der Waerden,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...research shows that having a sense of belonging is really important for people to become socially and politically involved. This is even more important among minority groups and new migrant groups, either living or arriving in large urban centres, as is the case with Milton Keynes in our case study. ANITA My mum was born in India, but she comes from mixed-race parents....
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...research intended to get as close as possible to the performance conventions of the time (such as the use of period instruments or consulting contemporary performance treatises). * British Invasion Term used to refer to the great popularity of British popular musicians in the US in the mid-1960s. It is generally said to have commenced with The Beatles’ first US tour in...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer arwain
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer arwain

...Research, 2021) a bod 68% o’r rheini a gymerodd ran yn yr arolwg eisoes yn gweithio gartref ac o’r swyddfa. Nid yw’n syndod bod cynifer o bobl wedi dweud y byddant yn gadael sefydliad pe na fyddai opsiwn ar gyfer gweithio hybrid. Wedi dweud hynny, adnabu’r adroddiad bod pobl yn bryderus ynghylch adnoddau a thimau digidol, bod yr angen i gydweithio’n effeithiol...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...research commitments of PIRATE have to take priority, the observing time available for telescope.org requests is more limited and waiting times for images to return may be a little longer. This free course, Astronomy with an online telescope, shows you how to navigate the night sky, and introduces the wide variety of objects it contains. You will develop a hands-on...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs