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Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...Becoming a parent extends this timeline. Not only will it happen in her daughter’s lifetime, but ‘it’s already happening’. Recording a programme from the melting glaciers of Northern Norway, Laura Tobin found herself crying on camera. I didn’t mean to. I didn’t want it to be about me crying; I wanted it to be about the science. But I just saw the reality of it...
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...becoming more of a commercial activity, rather than the more pastoral practice that has been taking place in previous decades. NARRATOR: Fewer people are now directly involved in farming land they own. Investors buying up the land are farming at arm’s length. BEN TAYLOR: On the most part, investors don’t seek to farm the land themselves. They’d far rather take a...
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...students. Income (flow over time) A teacher receives her monthly income. Income (flow over time) The government pays someone without work unemployment benefit. Income (flow over time) An increase in the value of shares owned in EasyJet PLC. Wealth (stock at a given point of time) Savings account Wealth (stock at a given point of time) The ownership of a 3-bedroom house...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...becoming apparent that it is a bureaucratic nightmare to unravel our existing agreements, let alone put in place anything that resembles a deal of any kind. The point is that even those who were incredibly optimistic at the ease with which we might leave Europe are forced to admit that it is more difficult than they had imagined. Having said that, a small minority (5%)...
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...becomes apparent in the light of the fact that in the UK alone some £2.2b was spent in 1997 on research and development. Literally thousands of different compounds have to be synthesised and tested in the search for the one that will prove to be a successful and valuable therapeutic agent. As a result, the average cost of developing a new drug is now around £350m. And...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...becoming fully anchored in a ‘common European home’. When something like this common home emerged in 2004 with the yet further enlargement of the EU, though, it was not one that lacked an ideological framework. This time it was the dogma of the free market that had come to prevail (in association, of course, with the global supremacy of the United States), and in a...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...become particularly low during the post-war years. Since the 1980s, income distribution has become more unequal again. Also other recent studies have come to the conclusion that economic inequality hampers economic growth and is associated with a phenomenon called secular stagnation – slow average economic growth (Shen and Zhao, 2023).This is because economic growth...
LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters

...OU collection exploring why Good Friday Agreement matters 25 yars on This arcicle is part of "A Peace of Us", our special collection of resources exploring why the Good Friday Agreement is relevant to our lives 25 years since its signing. New energy: why the Good Friday Agreement helped the LGBTQIA+ civil rights movement There has never been a better time to be LGBTQIA+...