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Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...work in the City of London, and of course on the Sabbath and festivals the services are longer. There are services here every day of the week, 365 days of the year. There’s no actual ritual involved in the preparation for prayer. The principal thing you do when you come in for men is to cover their head. You show respect to God by having your head covered. The services...
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...worked for decades to prevent the use of nuclear weapons, with the ultimate aim of abolishing them altogether. You will see how opposition to nuclear weapons has been an important cause on every continent. Beginning in 1945, this course will equip you with knowledge of the nature of anti-nuclear activism until the present day...In this free course you will learn about the...
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...social research for Defra plant health and have worked in citizen science projects now support citizen science, specifically as they relate to tree health - and the question around why citizen and science? For me… erm, there tends to be focus on data, and the gathering and management of data, and using citizen scientists to add temporal and spatial resolution to data, I...
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...working in sport’ (McGinty-Minister, Whitehead and Swettenham (2023) and answer the following questions: What sort of behaviour do women report as experiencing at an interpersonal level? What reasons did women give for avoiding reporting sexism? As you listen to the audio and look at the poster, reflect on why gender is a contemporary issue and why it is of relevance to...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...work. You will be able to identify innovation in a wide variety of designed objects and evaluate the impact of this innovation...This free course looks at the process of design, from assessing the complexity of design as an activity to exposing the difficulty in making general conclusions about how designers work. You will be able to identify innovation in a wide variety...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...working with computers. Most of us probably feel confident we know what they are, and what they can do. In this section we'll examine the fundamental concept of the digital computer as an interpreted automatic formal system and consider the implications of this for computational theories of mind. At the end, I'll try to draw some conclusions and set the scene for the...
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...social consciousness, and are each sensible of being a centre, with a metropolitan destiny; but the strange thing about Liverpool and the like English towns is that they are without any social consciousness. Their meek millions are socially unborn; they can come into the world only in London, and in their prenatal obscurity they remain folded in a dreamless silence, while...
Non-existent countries
Society, Politics & Law

Non-existent countries

...Social World’ where Butcher and Morris (2015) explore the role of power in defining place, mobility and migration and the cultural significance of the nation as home. This is further explored in Conway and Staples's (2015) examination of symbols of nationalism and the creation of ‘Homelands’. Butcher, M and Morris, A (2015) ‘Mapping Home’ in Murji, K (ed)...