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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...research fellow at SOAS, pointed out, modern yoga practice has much in common with exercise methods such as Swedish and Danish gymnastic drills that were popular for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yoga also offered relief from what one yoga teacher described in 1976 as “housewife syndrome” which included “monotony and lack of...
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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...picture. Higher Education does. Not engaging with the problem of unconscious bias in mainstream education is devastating for both young people and the higher education sector as HE access is not even considered by these excluded cohorts. Universities lead the way in education. Could there be a way that they can use their research to lead the way in calling for change?...
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Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...children. (I am not suggesting that any reader would think about all this on a first reading, by the way.) This distancing effect, pulling us back to the adult narrator's perspective, and then further, to our own reading of that narrator's views, is reinforced by Dickens's way of handling time. Salinger uses the present tense, and his child narrator looks back just less...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...Centre. J’ai 37 ans, je suis infirmière dans un service de cardiologie, dans une clinique. J’ai deux enfants, deux garçons, un mari que j’aime, et je suis chanteuse. Mon père et ma mère sont nés en Guadeloupe. La Guadeloupe, c’est une petite île qui se trouve près de l’Amérique latine, qui est à 8000 km de la France mais qui appartient à la France....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...research and development communications networks, can do as much to advance debate and action on sustainability as it can for the profit margins of immense global companies. Once the capacity for networks exists, they cannot easily be owned, directed, managed or, above all, predicted. This is what makes it impossible to capture what is going on in the world. This section...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...Centre and she’s, she’s put the money in, so there’s a hundred thousand pound extension which shall be built… KAWSAR [02.31] …so what happened with all the other areas….like… ANDREW [02.33] No, we can’t get planning permission – they’re too expensive – we need lots more money, you know, it’s not feasible. KAWSAR [02.43] A hundred thousand...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...research done in both Ireland and France which showed violence against sex workers had actually increased since the introduction of the Nordic Model, and that it had a negative impact both on the control they had over their job and their lives in general. Matilda has experience with the Nordic Model as it is the same system in place in her city of Portland, Oregon. She...
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Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...research suggests that high numbers of professional pilots may be severely fatigued and still flying (Venus, 2020). As we can see from the case studies, there can be complex, personal, professional, and commercial reasons pressuring pilots to fly while feeling fatigued. What is Fatigue? Fatigue is both mental and physical which can be brought on by performing a demanding...
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