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Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...research based on high-performing organisations; we will then apply the ideas to two very different UK businesses. The book Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Practical Ideas for Moving Towards Best Practice (Cetinkaya et al., 2011) has some practical advice on how to manage sustainability across stakeholders, gathered from interviews with practitioners, industry...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...research workers in Berkshire and so on) have to be understood relationally. They cannot simply be presented on a map, however useful the mapping may be in highlighting patterns of difference that need to be explained. What matters is to identify the relations of power – the sets of social, political and economic relations – that help to generate forms of inequality...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...research into the trauma of an enigmatic sexuality dissipates the hidden sexual content of the trauma while reasserting its sexual energy. Painting makes visible the sensual grounds of a metaphysical fantasy. (Bersani and Dutoit, 1998, pp. 81–2) Activity 11 Click to open Colour Plate 2 showing Caravaggio's St John the Baptist (Youth with a Ram),1602, oil on canvas, 132...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...research today were foretold by key discoveries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 1783, an unseen companion was presented as an explanation of the peculiar periodic dimming observed for the bright star Algol, and in 1844 the observation of a periodic change in position of the bright stars Sirius and Procyon uncovered their two unseen companions. The concept...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...Research UK website has a good explanation of the situation concerning the plastic bottles. As you watch the video, focus on how important the numbers are to the story that the narrators are conveying. How do the narrators try to help the viewer to comprehend the numbers?...Week 1: Why does science need numbers?: 1.2 Reflecting on numbers - [This is an illustration...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...research has shown that the impacts from 2 °C of warming are highly likely to be much more severe than the impacts from 1.5 °C (IPCC, 2018)...Climate change and renewable energy: 5.4 Electrification of energy services - a pathway to net zero? - The IEA’s Net Zero scenario shows an enormous ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ towards electricity. Figure 17 shows...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...researcher in philosophy at The University of Cambridge. Daisy considers two answers to the question put to her. You will then answer some questions in the following activity. DEREK MATRAVERS Imagine you had some relatively untouched piece of nature. And then, a mining company discovered there were valuable minerals there. And they wanted to extract the minerals. And they...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 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