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Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...research has found that 70-80% of one’s ageing rate, up until age 80, is largely determined by non-genetic environmental factors". General recommendations for ageing well and keeping good nutritional habits are: Enjoyable and varied food with plenty of fruit and vegetables, enough fibre, reducing salt intake, keep an eye on having enough vitamins in our diet, Get enough...
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...research methods and theoretical approaches. This diversity can make it difficult for those coming to criminology for the first time to locate the theoretical underpinnings or disciplinary roots of particular criminological perspectives. In order to situate the ideas that are associated with ‘critical’ or ‘radical’ criminology, we include here a very brief...
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...research report entitled Good Graffiti, Bad Graffiti? A New Approach to an Old Problem, which summarises findings of research exploring public attitudes towards graffiti. This report noted that attitudes to graffiti were more nuanced than initially assumed in their 2003 anti-graffiti campaign and depended on a range of factors, such as the type, quality, message, location...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...centre of the top of the painting; Baleah is in the centre of the painting’s right-hand edge, accompanied by a figure holding his hand to his head. He is signalling to Sardanapalus that, as the rebels have gained ground, the order to set fire to the palace has already been given. We can see flames in the background. Sardanapalus himself reclines on his bed, in the top...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...children get in order to fund their first small expenses, or the various door-to-door fund-raising activities carried out by non-profit organisations. Of course, just as a child growing into adulthood requires more elaborate sources of finance to sustain increasingly complex objectives, organisations, too, must evaluate ways in which they can finance their goals. Raising...
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...centre, representing perhaps a rock in the ocean, her size made her appear gigantic. She could reach a flitch of bacon or haul a tub of oil with one sweep of her arm in the shop. For a moment she stood there, eminent, dominant, on the soap box with the blue and sailing clouds behind her. The breeze had risen. Audio clip 1. The pageant works as a device that brings actors...
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...Callender You Should See Me In A Crown, by Leah Johnson The Summer of Everything, by Julian Winters Legendborn, by Tracy Deonn Cinderella is Dead, by Kalynn Bayron Blood Like Magic, by Liselle Sambury Skin Of The Sea, by Natasha Bowen For children Hurricane Child, by Kheryn Callender King And The Dragon Flies, by Kacen Callender Graphic novel Bingo Love, by Tee Franklin...
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...researching, making, testing), using knowledge (e.g. about things, people, principles), using abilities (e.g. time planning, management), and using sensitivities (e.g. to values, context, markets). It is notoriously difficult to take this further and attempt to define a formula for a process which will lead to successful design. Having said this, in Section 3 I shall...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs