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The Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN)
Education & Development

The Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN)

...university but we weren't allowed to get married, so I came back home heartbroken. Shortly after I was introduced to my first husband, but was thrown out after 8/9 weeks by the in-laws because the dowry wasn't enough. On honeymoon, my husband complained my parents didn't provide a house or a car. I was only 21. It took me 2 years to get my clothing, and personal...
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What is Law?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Law?

...University Law School. STEPHANIE PYWELL: In this audio we’re talking about what the law is … So, Caroline, could you start by giving me a simple definition of law? CAROLINE DERRY: Well, a useful way of looking at law is as a system of rules that regulate the conduct of people in society. Compliance with the law is enforced by the state via the courts. Law exerts...
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How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...University Press. Hole, J., Hirsch, M., Ball, E. and Meads, C. (2015) ‘Music as an aid for postoperative recovery in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis’, The Lancet, 386, pp. 1659–1671. King, J. (ed.) (2022), Art therapy, trauma, and neuroscience: theoretical and practical perspectives. Routledge. Levine, E. and Levine, S.K. (2011) Art in action:...
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Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...Guide, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Davies, P. (2000) Death and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Guarducci, M. (1960) The Tomb of St. Peter. New York: Hawthorne Books. Hekster, O. (2009) ‘Honouring ancestors: the dynamic of deification’ in Hekster, O., Schmidt-Hofner, S. and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...guided and responded to these changes, particularly around China’s internationalisation in search of natural resources (Sessions 1 and 4) understand the growth and development of Chinese national oil companies (Sessions 1 and 4) understand the place of Africa in China’s resource geopolitics (Sessions 2 and 4) appreciate the role of African politics and institutions in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...University Press, p.17) ‘We Were Carrying on a Strike When We Ought to Have Been Making a Revolution' (Willie Gallacher, Revolt on the Clyde (1936), London, Lawrence and Wishart, (1978 ed), p.221) Perhaps not surprisingly, such a momentous period as that of the Red Clyde has given rise to many competing historical interpretations and arguments. What is surprising is...
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Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...University in English he joined The South Bank Show at LWT, moving on to Border Television in programme development before joining Channel Four as Assistant Commissioning Editor of Youth Programming. After leaving Channel Four Harry formed the independent production company, John Peel Productions in the Lake District in 1987. In 1990 he moved to Bristol and co-founded...
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Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...university I did a degree in Biology and Physical Anthropology and then I went on and did a degree in Environmental Studies, because the programme that I chose allowed me essentially to write the programme that I wanted to do and there aren’t many places that will let you do that, they always want to line you up and put you in boxes very early on and I just knew what I...
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