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Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...system. It also provides a significant way of understanding how individuals and groups become constituted as welfare subjects. The processes through which this takes place are the first and central theme of this course. Though we know little of Tamarla Owens' personal history, it is likely that some aspects of her personal life resemble the stereotypical constructions and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?
History & The Arts

Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?

...think, be welcomed by those it claims to champion. But the approach and what's been left out has made the movie a flashpoint in its own right...[The Stonewall Inn, September 1969] The Stonewall Inn in 1969 We've got two personal viewpoint pieces which explain why some people are angered by the Stonewall movie. First, Robyn whose article originally appeared at Voices On...
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Article 5 mins
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...thinking about moral values (e.g. good v bad, wrong v right), also they rarely question gender binaries (men v women, masculine v feminine), or the related ways in which men have been privileged in terms of legal status, formal authority, political and economic power, access to resource, and sexuality. They do little to challenge a gender ideology that is based on a...
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Article 15 mins
Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...system was fully saturated, Davy stepped out of the box and proceeded to inhale a further twenty quarts of the gas from a series of oiled green silk bags. While seated in the box breathing deeply, Davy had felt the effects that had become familiar from his many previous experiments since he had first inhaled the gas earlier that year. The first signature was its curiously...
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Article 5 mins
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...think about personal values and deliberately challenging oneself to consider the questions that should be asked can be unnerving. And engaging in meaningful collaboration in the development of these questions cannot be achieved without determination and initiative. When considering how to include people from underrepresented groups, the old mantra of ‘hard to reach’...
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Article 25 mins
Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...system (Carlile et al., 2021). Many GPs refuse to refer children for specialist treatment, or to administer prescribed medication. Referral letters go awry. Even after a first appointment, children can wait months to be assessed and start receiving any medical treatment. Professionals often have rigid, binary notions of gender that mean young people need to perform a...
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Article 10 mins
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...think globally and act locally’, rather than simply relying on nation states to do their ‘thinking and acting’ for them, as was often the case formerly. This is especially true of regions in the EU where these developments have advanced furthest, and the EU now has an increasingly important regional dimension (Jeffery, 1997). Section 4 considers the EU itself as a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...think about what constitutes a musical tradition, considering its history and how it has been performed as well as some of the technical elements of blues music. [Described image] Figure 1 B. B. King performing c.1968. Photo Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images (via Britannica Image Quest) Before you start, take a couple of minutes to reflect on what you already know about...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs