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How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...study of using Foucault’s disciplinary power’, Critical Social Work, 15(1). Mason, D. (1982) ‘After Scarman: A note on the concept of “institutional racism”’, New Community, 10(1), pp. 38–45. Miles, R. (1989) Racism. London: Routledge. Peeples, L. (2020) ‘What the data says about police brutality and racial bias-and which reforms might work’, Nature,...
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Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...study I will never forget my first day at Glasgow Polytechnic (now Glasgow Caldeonian University), better known as ‘the Poly’, on 1 October 1991. I arrived late; all of the new first year social science students were meeting in a lecture theatre. I walked in and there were about 300 students already seated. The member of staff had already started to speak about the...
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Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...study in Technology...Forth Road Bridge: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the basic structural issues of the Forth Road Bridge give examples of how engineers are trying to alleviate the wear and tear on the bridge...Forth Road Bridge: 1 The Forth Road Bridge - Edinburgh reaches over the Firth of Forth with two great bridges...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...studying this course, you should be able to: write a working definition of development management apply the complexity, emergence, difference (CoDE) framework to selected cases of development management develop some initial judgements of ‘good’ development management...Discovering development management: 1 Starting your exploration - Copestake and Williams (2014, p....
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...studies have shown the health benefits of intermittent fasting. Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, encouraged all Muslims to take part in sports and teach our children as well. In particular, he encouraged running, horsemanship and horseracing, swimming and archery, reinforcing the idea that a strong body is more capable of performing the obligations of life and...
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The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...studied our relationship with alcohol. They told me how everything from recessions to marketing to sexism has shaped the way Brits drink. This is the story of that research, and of what it tells us about the ascent to Peak Booze. In many ways it is not a story about how much we drink, but about who drinks what, and where. It begins well over half a century ago, in the...
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Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

...studying the voice leading at the foreground and middleground of the harmony, so Beethoven's Eighth Symphony is also an ideal work in which to start to consider the largest-scale stage of voice-leading analysis. This course requires you to switch between several different formats of material. This reflects the particular nature of analysis, where you are constantly...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...studying very large samples, we sometimes expect that overall the orientations are random, which enables the use of statistical methods or computer simulations to determine the overall size and shape distributions of a set of objects. However, unknown orientation angles remain a major uncertainty in many astronomical studies...Astronomy: images of the Universe: 2...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs