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How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...health started to improve in the second half of the twentieth century, followed more recently by a growth in income. But given that these countries are all so very different not least in terms of population sizes or standards of living, how can we make fair comparisons between them? Rosling's approach is to use normalised or standardised figures that try to take away some...
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Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...health more broadly and to Social Services and Welfare. Ann One of the things that I think is brilliant about Childline is that it doesn’t get stuck on the rhetoric of children’s need. What I mean by that is that it is very common to construct what children’s needs are from the outside in a way which is not at all helpful because it is paternalistic and it makes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...health and education provision and rising poverty and inequality. The benefits of revenue and rents fail to trickle down to the majority of citizens. Yet, the continent abounds with natural resources and more are being found all of the time, which is why nations like China are increasingly looking to Africa to secure new supplies. According to Vines (2014): ‘Six of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...publicity. Dallas Campbell: Here are the canals on … Frank Drake: These are the canals and the civilisation that was solving its problems with this great canal system that he thought he saw with the telescope. All of which proved to be false. Dallas Campbell: Do you think that’s because of back then, you know, we obviously have a sort of anthropocentric view of the...
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Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...public debates often circle round and round who has legitimate claims to welfare and that sort of division of people into bad, undeserving, scrounging, bogus, against decent, legitimate, deserving, respectable, is I think one of the sort of recurrent features that students might find throughout D218. Gail Lewis May I add one other point in relation to that as well that as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...public events. A confident performer – helped no doubt by spending 14 years as the lead singer of a band called You Jump First – he asks the audience to raise their left arms. They obey. After a pause, he asks them to raise their right arms. Once again, they comply. “I know you’re conscious because you’ve all got your hands up,” he declares. The same sort of...
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Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...public were men who manipulated electronic instruments and equipment. Behind the scenes was a male-dominated industry of producers, songwriters, publishers, and recording engineers. (Dunbar, 2011, p. 177) Male rock musicians, such as Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970), sang about love, sex, and relationships from positions of power and control, while the aggressive sound of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...health nut. I love taking supplements and being fit, but I can never understand what's going on in terms of evidence. There's always conflicting evidence. Should I take vitamin C? Should I be taking wheat grass? So this is a visualisation of all the evidence for nutritional supplements. This kind of diagram is called a balloon race. So the higher up the image, the more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs