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Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...world politically. Good evidence is very important, obviously. But on its own, it's just not enough, if you want some proper change. And it's not like one thing, politics, is bad, and the other, evidence, is good. No. I came around to seeing the world like our local politicians, you know? These are people who care about their communities. Their views on how to tackle...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...world’s children with high-quality primary and secondary education are numerous and compelling. Education provides economic benefits and improves health. Education is a widely accepted humanitarian obligation and an internationally mandated human right. These claims are neither controversial nor new. (Cohen, Bloom & Malin, 2006 p. v) However, despite such claims,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...world socially and in the groups they belong to (their social identity); and how they see themselves personally. They also discovered that for most people their social identity and the groups or community they feel they belong to can be particularly important. This is especially the case in contexts of social conflict...Session 1: Community: 1.2 How others see you - It...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...world actually works, the role of philosophy is to take a step back – to analyse and to criticise the assumptions that underlie our everyday beliefs and our scientific theories. Sometimes it is suggested that the primary concern of philosophy is to understand the concepts that we use in describing and explaining the world: to give an account of our concept emotion is to...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...world. Why would researchers become interested in such a gathering? This is because the Magh Mela case study can be set within the context of contemporary crowd psychology, which has been working to understand the relationship between crowds and collective identity. Modern crowd research is considered to have started with French polymath and political conservative Gustave...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...world social problems such as racial and gender discrimination. Psychologists have generated a number of explanations for why people become prejudiced and in this section you will undertake some online activities that focus on ‘implicit and explicit’ forms of prejudice and the distinctions between them...Making sense of ourselves: 1.1 Explicit and implicit prejudice -...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?

...world. New Horizons found no trace of an atmosphere and the surface is mostly water-ice but it boasts the only dark polar cap in the solar system. Did tar particles from Pluto’s atmosphere somehow make it across to Charon? Elsewhere there are plenty of impact craters, though probably fewer than on Pluto’s water-ice terrains, which poses a problem of why and how Charon...
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Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?
History & The Arts

Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?

...worlds of fashion and beauty – have made canny use of Barbenheimer in their advertising campaigns. HAPPY BARBENHEIMER RELEASE WEEK pic.twitter.com/9rMbMPvr62 — Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) July 17, 2023 For the studios behind the films (Warner Bros. and Universal respectively), the hype has paid off. Opening weekend box office returns were the fourth highest on record,...
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