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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...sustained commitment locally to include women’s teams into club structures. Increasing support for the women's game At the grassroots, the men’s game survives largely because of long-standing sources of local financial backing and a significant volunteer workforce that keep clubs going. Without this type of historical support, the women’s game is often starved of...
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...sustainable human-centred approach to change, by putting the needs of people at the heart of your initiative and considering more sustainable ways of working. We focus on functional and operational changes that help organisations deliver their strategies, rather than organisational changes, as these tend to be the change initiatives that most members of an organisation...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...sustainable development and citizenship evaluate the power of the subject via a practical lesson idea come to a ‘definition’ of geography in education...School geography: exploring a definition: 1.1 Chasms and great divides: can we imagine a world without geography? - Many school systems around the world do not have geography with the status of a separate subject....
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...sustainability assessment. Some of these approaches understand environment as a system. That said, it is important to be aware that there are often different interpretations of system and its meaning in many environmental management approaches. Many of these interpretations hinge on whether a system is considered to exist ‘out there’ in the real world or whether it is...
Preparation dyeing and finishing
Money & Business

Preparation dyeing and finishing

...sustainability if we all use less water and have to buy new clothes less often. With the large volumes of t shirt fabric need to clothe the world there will always be some dyers who cut corners and do things wrong. There will always be retailers who want to make such a margin that quality will be affected. It takes a lot of skill and knowledge at a high level to be able...
Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...sustained CPD in the teaching of writing. The project, which involves teacher residentials at Lumb Bank (Ted Hughes’ old home) and CPD days, focuses both on writing standards and children’s motivation and engagement as creative and effective writers. Whilst the recruitment process has been hard work and we’re not there yet, it’s this rich combination of outcomes...
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...sustaining but also in tackling global challenges. Transcript In Session 1, you will explore the extent to which climate change and other environmental degradations raise the question of whether there are biophysical limits to economic activity. In Session 2, you will come across several different accounts of how the economy is conceptualised, whether and how economic...
Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...sustainable within the single currency. The result, I fear, is that Paris will soon be facing a harsher regime, possibly a situation where the president of the Eurogroup is vested with draconian veto powers over the French government’s national budget. How long, once this happens, can the European Union survive the resurgence of nasty nationalism in places like France?...