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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
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
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
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
Social psychology: sense-making in crises
Society, Politics & Law

Social psychology: sense-making in crises

...research cannot ‘escape’ from sense-making. For this reason, a crucial task for anyone practising social psychology today is to ensure that the tools and approaches they use provide adequate frames for understanding what they are studying. In this section, you will experience Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel’s 1944 study, ‘An Experimental Study of Apparent...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 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