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Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...community based public health campaigns to prevent, treat or control infections, illustrated by a video of a unique rural health programme in Ethiopia and a case study of how guinea worm disease has been brought to the brink of global eradication the challenges that must be overcome in order to make further progress in reducing the burden of infectious disease and meeting...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Messaging apps – staying connected and in control with mobile messaging
Languages

Messaging apps – staying connected and in control with mobile messaging

...communicate. Instead, people are clear that they shouldn’t always feel under pressure to reply straight away and can do so in their own time. ‘People are attempting to assert control over their communicative practices’ [Young black guy, casually dressed in a brown T-shirt, looking at a smart phone.]People also accept that this is true for their friends and family,...
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Article 5 mins
What have big meals got to do with Christmas?
History & The Arts

What have big meals got to do with Christmas?

...communal sharing. So Christmas can cause tensions not only in our ordinary family lives but also in the life of Church communities. Let’s go back a bit. Christmas was added to Christian calendars in the third to fourth century. Maybe that seems odd. Christmas was not accepted in many Christian communities for a long time (and is still rejected by some Churches). Part of...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...community-based response to social need. a. Social work is easy, and anyone can do it. b. Social work is nothing to do with politics. c. Social work is a practice-based profession. d. Social workers must force people to fit into society. e. Social workers can work with groups as well as with individuals. f. An effective social worker always achieves social justice. g....
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss

...community It’s not a team that any parent would hope to join. But bereaved fathers joining the Sands United team find a valuable community among others who have gone through a similar experience and understand the impact of their loss. In the research, the Sands United team was often described as a close-knit one. Training nights, charity match games, and social media...
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Article 5 mins
Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?
Languages

Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?

...community; an important part of humanity. In this sense, the project recognises the indigenous languages as visions of the world and seeks to avoid their extinction. This is illustrated by the following animation, based on the poem “Cuando muere una lengua” (When a tongue dies) by Mexican historian and anthropologist Miguel León Portilla, a prime authority on Nahuatl...
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Video 5 mins
How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...communication now familiar to Trump followers. First, there are the factual inaccuracies – these are asylum seekers not illegal immigrants. Then there is the mode of address – Trump often tweets as if addressing an individual in conversation (“do you believe it?”). This of course helps to create the illusion of intimacy and shared experience. The point is that...
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Video 5 mins
No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals
Health, Sports & Psychology

No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals

...communication hardly ever gave consent as a reason for communicating, or as something that people might need to communicate about. This is even more concerning considering that much sex advice actually gives messages that run counter to treating yourself – and others – consensually. For example, women are encouraged to provide unwanted quickies or forms of sex they...
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Article 5 mins