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Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...managing overlapping forms of oppression linked with gender, race and disability (Malcolm and Green, 2025). The Triad of Oppression In our early conversations, born out of the informality and authenticity of friendship, we had distilled our research interests into a deceptively straightforward question: ‘what is it like to be a Black mother raising an autistic child in...
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Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?
Society, Politics & Law

Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?

...introduction of juryless trials, sexual assault cases are likely to remain difficult to prosecute, and conviction rates may not improve significantly. Nevertheless, the proposed changes are an important step forward in the ongoing fight for justice for victims of sexual assault. It is also worth noting that the proposed changes to the Scottish legal system are not without...
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What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...Introduction à l’histoire du Buddhisme indien (1844), and Hermann Oldenberg’s Buddha: Sein Leben, seine Lehre, seine Gemeinde (1881). Over the course of the nineteenth century, the European portrayal of Buddhism underwent a profound metamorphosis: from a form of idolatry practiced by pagans, to a religion, and a world religion, finally to something beyond the...
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Ashura
History & The Arts

Ashura

...If you are interested in this topic and want to learn more about Shi’a Islam, you might want to consider the Open University module Exploring religion: places, practices, texts and experiences. If you are interested in diversity and difference in Islam, you could look at Chapter 6, 'Diversity' in Islam A New Historical Introduction, by Carole Hillenbrand (2015)....
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Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...needn't be an onerous task. Further Reading Music: an Appreciation Roger Kamien, McGraw-Hill Education What to Listen for in Jazz Barry Kernfield, Yale University Press. The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening Joseph Machlis and Kristine Forney, W W Norton & Co Ltd. Classical Music Edited by Joe Staines, Rough Guides. Discover more music content...
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10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...project managers involved. When the Russians get divorced living in a flat they’ll use British lawyers to service their needs in that, and so there’s a sort of economy built around that. That’s the British service economy. So that’s another example of this kind of move upmarket. And the third of course are those intellectual property type industries, like...
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Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...manage to single out sounds and images that require attention and how easy is it to distract someone and why...What does 'attention' mean to you? This free course, Attention, will help you to examine how we 'pay attention'. How do we manage to single out sounds and images that require attention and how easy is it to distract someone and why....Attention: Introduction -...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...Introduction - Software makes the world go round. Cars and TVs have software that controls how they work, and global commerce and finance are impossible without software that control the stocks, carry out payments, find the best transport route, etc. Coding (or programming) is the construction of software. Coding involves writing a ‘recipe’, which in computing is...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs