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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...system provide examples of some of the ways in which critical criminology has conceptually approached and researched ‘race’ and ethnicity...Race, ethnicity and crime: The US, Australia and the UK - The relationship between race and ethnicity and crime and criminology is characterised by conflict, dispute and contestation. The focus of explanatory concern for critical...
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Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...system and I think that’s really important. So I’m hoping one of the series I’ll do in the future will be actually about anthropology and looking at people today and the big biological challenges that we face and how we’ve solved them with different cultural solutions. The value of archive I think that the archive is a complete untapped resource. I’m absolutely...
Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...system at MIT’s Lincoln Lab (Mindell 2008) and this is where she became interested in and learned much about the reliability of software (Spicer 2017), being able to make a previously inoperative radar system actually work. As Hamilton said: “I was and still am very interested in what causes errors and how to avoid them throughout. That was one of my very first...
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...think what’s changed since then. MJ: I think the most important thing that’s changed is not in the talks about climate but in the real economy of climate. In Copenhagen countries were being asked to make emissions cuts, which they really didn’t know whether they could do or not. This was particularly true of the developing countries, China and India and others, who...
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...think differently about life's dilemmas by taking account of the views of all concerned, especially people experiencing mental distress. It explores ideas and practice in mental health, and will appeal to a wide range of people...Take a new and different look at mental health. This free course, Challenging ideas in mental health, invites you to think differently about...
Social care, social work and the law
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care, social work and the law

...system have a massive impact on the lives of social workers, from defining policy and procedure to the actual process of day-to-day working. This album presents an encompassing and engrossing look at the interaction between legal and social teams, and how different professions and groups interact to ensure equality and representation for all members of society. Not only...
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...think about how we reform the system in other ways that allows us to control those hazards. ON-SCREEN TEXT We asked Sonae for a comment on the issues outlined in the film. This is what they said: ‘In relation to the assertion that the plant has or may have caused ill health to the residents of Kirkby, we draw the following to your attention and ask that you include it...
Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...system. Research has demonstrated that survivors that come forward to report sexual violence struggle to be seen as credible victims of crime by police officers. Reporting sexual violence is particularly challenging for communities who are targets of state harassment, including poor and working-class black and minority ethnic, queer, transgender and non-binary groups and...