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Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...write a thesis which makes an original contribution to knowledge. These degrees are usually undertaken part-time by mid- to late-career professionals who write a thesis that contributes towards both theory and professional practice. This sounds like a straightforward undertaking. Most professionals are familiar with and committed to research informed practice. However,...
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Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...write letters to newspapers, and speak at meetings and events for instance Finally: start small: small actions can lead to big change! In relation to mode, and the skills and confidence needed to communicate change via public speaking, you may find it useful to read ‘Dare to speak up’, a guide to communicating change via persuasive speech. Activity 1: getting started...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
What can lucid dreaming teach us about consciousness?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can lucid dreaming teach us about consciousness?

...write' their dreams as they sleep - and this may give us some insight into how the brain works...We spend around six years of our lives dreaming – that’s 2,190 days or 52,560 hours. Although we can be aware of the perceptions and emotions we experience in our dreams, we are not conscious in the same way as when we’re awake. This explains why we can’t recognise...
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Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...write about this in the News of the World in 1938 and he is credited with coining the expression but only by people like Boris Johnson who do not know, for instance, that the Cambridge historian Professor (later Sir) John Seeley gave a lecture in London to the Peace Society in 1871, and published in Macmillan’s Magazine, entitled United States of Europe. The campaigns...
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Article 10 mins
Trump and the triumph of hopeful nihilism
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and the triumph of hopeful nihilism

...writing that say "Trump Pence, Make America Great Again" are being held in the air. There is one red sign in the middle that says "Make America Great Again" in white writing. There is a three part horizontal poster being held up at the front which has a painted picture impression of Trump's face and firework decor in the background of stars on blue lines one side and red,...
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Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth
Education & Development

Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth

...writing you will expect and be expected to provide appropriate referencing to key concepts, models and theories from associated module units and related texts. These are your core sources of information. You will be identifying these to demonstrate for example, that you understand and acknowledge a theory as, say, underpinning an example, a case study that addresses the...
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Article 10 mins
How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?
History & The Arts

How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?

...write? What started as amateur history research expanded, and now I chair Wilfred Owen’s Edinburgh 1917-2017, a literary community celebrating the centenary of the poet’s time in Edinburgh. Looking at Owen through the lens of the city has led to a decade of research and thrown up some interesting questions. Not least about the meeting between Wilfred Owen, Siegfried...
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Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning

...write a short text in that language, for example a formal letter. Use the translation tool to check your text in your first language. Then re-write the same text in a different ‘tone’, for example in the format of an email to a close friend. Translate this version, too. Did you get it right? Do the two versions translated into your native language by the tool reflect...
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