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Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...et al., 2019). In terms of water, ‘livestock’ farming often depends on irrigation using finite fresh water supplies. Animal-protein production has been calculated to use more than four times as much water as the most intensively-irrigated plant-based protein production (Reynolds et al., 2014). Globally, ‘livestock’ farming is responsible for 29 per cent of...
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...et al. (2010). An individual’s health is enabled or inherited by their social context. Social class and a woman’s context shapes her life, it affects access to material resources and the amount of control women have over their lives. The body is simultaneously social, psychological and biological. It is both through and with a woman’s body that her self-identity is...
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...et al. (2015, p. 602) use the following definition: ‘sustainability, for a business, is the ability to keep operating successfully’. To these authors, a sustainable business is a business that can keep on doing its business. Anderson (2006) defines sustainable development as ‘development that meets the need of the present world without compromising the ability of...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...et al., 2019). Despite the use of multiple terms to describe resilience, there is consensus among researchers that resilience is best understood when examined in a particular context as models of resilience developed in other domains, such as business, might not be transferable, for example to sport (Wagstaff et al., 2017). In simple terms, resilience is ‘the ability to...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...et al., 1990; Wainwright, McKeown and Kinney, 2019) because of her dual heritage, in many ways it is typical of the experiences of people who have periods of mental distress. Psychophobia leads to prejudice and discrimination. This may be something you have experienced yourself or have witnessed first-hand. Being seen as someone with mental health problems may result in...
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...et al., 2005). Findings by Wang (2001) indicate that people in the US tend to recall events and experiences from a slightly younger age than people in China. The age of the earliest reported memory for participants in the US was around 42 months, whereas in China it was 47.5 months. This, of course, does not mean that people in the US have better memories. It merely means...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...et al., 2017). Even though the policies on food focus on feeding 9 billion people by 2050, in reality food is not distributed equally and some people have poorer access to food than others. In addition to the accessibility of food, affordability is also important. However, for hundreds of millions of people in the world, the cost of sufficient and nutritious food can be...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...et al’s definition of architecture based on the work by Shaw and Garlan: Software architecture encompasses the set of significant decisions about the organization of a software system including the selection of the structural elements and their interfaces by which the system is composed; behaviour as specified in collaboration among those elements; composition of these...