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How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...students producing no rubbish for three weeks at a time then 15 sacks once a month? And how would they compare to a family of four producing 2 sacks a week? What is our basis of comparison? Rubbish per household, per person, per week, per month, per year? In the video, Professor Hans Rosling demonstrates how development in terms of average income and lifespan has changed...
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...become empowered by access to key players, media attention, etc. [Figure 4] Source: adapted from Johnson and Scholes (1999) Figure 4 Stakeholder mapping: The power/interest matrix (Mendelow) Activity 5 Read the case study entitled ‘The challenges of using social marketing in India: The case of HIV/AIDS prevention’, linked below. If you were developing this social...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...become too kind of targeted with their reading. Derek, I wonder if you've got anything that you want to kind of add to that. DEREK NEALE Yeah. I think I've always thought it's really important to read about the sort of books you want to write. So you read novels if you want to write novels. You read short stories if you want to write short stories. And similarly, with...
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...becomes clear that the social world cannot be understood in separation from the natural world’ (2016, p. 7). Potter’s argument addresses one of the challenges of exploring environmental harms, which is that from a humanocentric perspective, they can seem rather abstract and remote from the suffering of specific individuals. This means that the exploration of...
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...students in the forums...Digital forensics: 2.2 Forensic scientists - Professionals who work in this field are known as forensic scientists or ‘archaeologists of the recent past’. Forensic scientists work in hospitals, police departments, laboratories, universities, morgues and corporate organisations. The profession has gained huge popularity all over the world...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...become a man, and he has endeared himself to his people from time to time by such inspirations. He is reputed on all hands to be a man of great good sense; if he is ever fooled it is not by himself, but by the system which he is no more a part of than the least of his subjects. If he will let a weary old man or a delicate woman stand indefinitely before him, he is no more...
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...become even more powerful when we plot two indicator values against each other because they help us see whether any relationships appear to hold between the different indicators. For example, does the value of one indicator go up (that is, increase) as the value of another indicator increases (a proportional relationship)? Or does the value of one indicator go down (that...
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...become a war of aggression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. I have seen and endured the suffering of the troops, and I can no...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs