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Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes

...becoming an usher at the coronation of King George IV. His 2015 biography, ‘Richmond Unchained’, suggests that much of this astonishing journey was down to his special talent for boxing – in those days a brutal, bare-knuckled version of the sport hugely popular among all sections of British society including the aristocracy. That Thomas Pitt was a boxing enthusiast...
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Article 10 mins
Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?

...become intuitive to them after many years of ‘practice’, and they may not realise that they’re masking. Masking can have an important protective and adaptive function that helps autistic people navigate a neurotypical world where people can be judged harshly unless very specific social scripts are followed (for example, not smiling or making eye contact can be...
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Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...becomes [50297, 50152], and so on. When a new item is recorded, the state of till5 changes, and changes in a way that is predictable. Specifically, the current state is changed by appending the newest item to the end of the sequence, giving a new state. We have described the change of a till state in a way that is quite general. The description is not peculiar to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...become available if EU boats are given more restricted access to the UK EEZ are hake, herring, mackerel and saith. Landings of these fish in Scotland were valued at £129.7m: the comparable figure for England was £7.6m. Thus, Scottish production already substantially exceeds that in England in those fish stocks likely to freed up by EU exit. This could see the Scottish...
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...become associated with criminality and deviance and identified, labelled and pathologised as figures of menace, danger and threat. Understanding and challenging the ways in which this criminalisation leads to the over-policing, over-incarceration and under-protection of particular populations lie at the heart of critical criminological arguments. The indication of a...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...become interested in such a gathering? This is because the Magh Mela case study can be set within the context of contemporary crowd psychology, which has been working to understand the relationship between crowds and collective identity. Modern crowd research is considered to have started with French polymath and political conservative Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd: Study...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Digital innovation in social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital innovation in social care and social work

...becomes part of care. For example, Northern Ireland and Scotland have had a more established relationship between ‘health’ and ‘social’ care (an integrated approach) and so they can make decisions that affect health and social care altogether. England and Wales have traditionally had more separation between ‘healthcare’ and ‘social care’ and both...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...becoming an essential tool in data representation and research communication. In this free course, The power of infographics in research dissemination, you will explore when and how infographics can be useful to your work. You will look at some good and bad practice in making and using infographics, and will learn how to evaluate infographics that appear to be presenting...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs