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Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...Social Sciences. Betty and Bryan settled in Manchester in 1961. Bryan worked in Adult Education and Betty began her lifelong connection with the African Caribbean community in her new role as a community development worker employed by the Commission in the UK for the West Indian Federation. The aim of the post was to support newly arrived West Indians settle in the UK....
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Video 10 mins
Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students
Education & Development

Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students

...socially ‘at home’ in higher education worry about the hidden curriculum: the fear of not knowing what tutors expect. Research shows this can be particularly significant for Black and minority ethnic students. Practical actions include: Provide exceptionally clear instructions for assessment types students may not have encountered before (e.g. essay plans, reflective...
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Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...social classification of the world’s population around the idea of race, a mental construction that expresses the basic experience of colonial domination and pervades the more important dimensions of global power, including its specific rationality: Eurocentrism…. Therefore, the model of power that is globally hegemonic today presupposes an element of coloniality...
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Video 40 mins
'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...Social Sciences courses and qualifications. 1969 was the year that a human first landed on the moon. It was also the year that I first saw a Black person on the telly. Both events were equally stellar for me. I was allowed to stay up late, even though it was a school night (I was only seven), to watch the grainy but miraculous pictures on our small black and white TV. It...
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Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools
History & The Arts

Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools

...social, cultural, political and economic afterlives of slavery within the present. I find the way that this history connects people, places, and ideas over time fascinating – it gives meaning to the work, even if that meaning can sometimes be difficult and complicated to grapple with. 4. What is your research project about? My most recent project focuses on the teaching...
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Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...social justice movements to consider where human suffering comes from and how it might be addressed (e.g. war, discrimination, our impact on the environment, the treatment of refugees, austerity measures, etc.). attention training ethical mindfulness a. attention training b. ethical mindfulness The correct answer is b. Select the answer for Question 1g here Building...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...interact. They have transformed traditional analogue forms of art and design, such as painting, sculpture, and drawing, to introduce new kinds of visual complexity and textures. By thinking and designing with algorithms, this project will give you a glimpse of the underlying mechanism of the world, and propel you to the cutting edge of where the design discipline is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...social historian specialising in the Victorian era and in the history of broadcasting in Britain. Briggs graduated from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1941, and served in the Intelligence Corps at Bletchley Park (1942–45) before becoming a fellow of Worcester College in 1945 and embarking on an academic career. What, then, do historians actually do? Asking the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs