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How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful

...et al (2020) COVID-19 The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care-social-work/the-effects-self-isolation-and-lack-physical-activity-on-carers Vseteckova J (2019) Depression, mood and exercise
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Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
Education & Development

Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK

...et al, 2020;; Gov.uk, 2019; London.gov.uk, 2020) US England & Wales Black and Latinx drivers were stopped and searched roughly two times more than White drivers (from analysis of data from 100 million traffic stops across US police forces) From April 2018 to March 2019, there were 38 stop and searches for every 1,000 Black people compared to 4 stop and searches for every...
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...et al., 2000) publication ‘Institutional Racism and the Police: Fact or Fiction’ which challenges the utility of the concept and emphasises its vagaries. Lea (2000) critiques Macpherson’s definition and use of institutional racism as conflating individual and intentional racism with unconscious racism and bias. Lea argues that individual actions are highlighted over...
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Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...et al., 2007). According to the Culloden website (linked above), the battle, which was fought in just 40 minutes, set in motion a series of events that saw the repression of a ‘distinctive way of life and culture’ and the removal of Highlanders from their homes during the Highland Clearances, in turn leading to mass emigration to Canada, the United States and other...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...et al. (2018) who argue for the use of assets-based approaches which ‘value the resources that exist in the community and build on the strengths and affordances of communities’. They further argue that ‘a strong assets-based approach that emphasises and values the experience of community members is an effective way to empower communities to make positive change’....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs