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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...work in the colonial education service in the early 1950s. My birth certificate from Ghana’s capital, Accra, has the words ‘Gold Coast’ crossed out in several places and Ghana handwritten in ink above it. Follow the money, as the saying goes. That golden thread of whiteness breaks, unexpectedly, when I complete the ‘place of birth’ part of the application form...
An overview of wound care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An overview of wound care

...work within the guidelines and policies of your organisation, especially in relation to wound cleansing and the use of dressings. Tissue viability practitioners are an invaluable source of information and will be able to give you up-to-date advice on the appropriate care for each wound type. Your organisation may have a tissue viability practitioner; if this is so you may...
Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant

...working: digital communication and collaboration...Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant: 1.3 Cyd-destun eich sefydliad - Mae'n bosibl bod gan eich sefydliad strategaethau llesiant a chynhwysiant ar waith eisoes, ond ai dogfennau polisi yn unig ydynt, neu a ydynt yn cael eu corffori drwy ymddygiadau a sgiliau staff ar bob lefel a gwerthoedd, diwylliant ac ymarferion yn...
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...work, a significant proportion of the population needs to be immunised to achieve ‘herd immunity’ (estimated to be 95% for MMR by the World Health Organization). Scientifically (and politically) the small risk of an adverse reaction is seen as a price worth paying. Most governments acknowledge the inherent unfairness of this. In Britain, in the event of a serious...
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...work on all modern browsers on both desktops and tablets. However, it is recommended that you complete the course on a desktop for better viewing of the sections and to enable integration of microscopy with the course text, images and videos in separate windows. This course is designed for students studying human biology at school or university, medical laboratory...
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...working within an organisation. For example, you may have come across the story of the architect Christopher Wren when he was surveying the rebuilding of St Paul’s Cathedral after the Great Fire of London in 1666. Paraphrased, on encountering three stonemasons working on the rebuilding, he asked each the same question: ‘What are you doing?’ The reply from the first...
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...working in the United Kingdom who wish to extend their theoretical knowledge on teaching Spanish pronunciation. It offers ideas and practical skills that can be used in the classroom, be that virtual or face-to-face. This course will explore intelligibility, fluency, foreign accent, language variation, articulation and acoustics. The course is suitable for all levels of...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...work. The famous short-short-short-long rhythm can also be referred to as a motif as it can be traced throughout the whole symphony and helps to create its structure. Here’s another extract from the third movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony – can you hear the rhythmic motif? Audio 11: Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, Third movement, 15:49–16:19...Week 1: The element...