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The Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN)
Education & Development

The Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN)

...community needing support...Our founder Aruna Bansal, founder of the Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN) shares her story to set the scene for the creation of the network: “I dated a Patel at university but we weren't allowed to get married, so I came back home heartbroken. Shortly after I was introduced to my first husband, but was thrown out after 8/9 weeks by the...
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Article 5 mins
Understanding Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding Milton Keynes

...Community without propinquity: the sociological ideas behind the design How do you build a city? How do you build a community? The socialist ideas championed by Lord Campbell Here comes Maggie Milton Keynes should be more like everywhere else The grid system of roads Where are all the people? A city in a forest Culture in Milton Keynes Arts in Milton Keynes Economics of...
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Video 1 hr
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...communicate (and thus set agendas that others involved may accept as legitimate, fair and authoritative). A discourse in this sense may include a powerful idea or set of ideas, shared values and certain understandings that people come to accept. Agency is the difference that a social actor – individual or group – makes to the world and is shaped both by power (what...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Im Gespräch mit Jannis Androutsopoulos
Languages

Im Gespräch mit Jannis Androutsopoulos

...and German at Hamburg University talks about his research projects and focus, including multilingual networks in social media, how written communication is changing in the younger generation and the field of digital journalism, in particular how journalists nowadays interact with media users. This recording is in German, suitable for learners at CEFR Level B2 or above....
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Video 30 mins
Toward a Model of Leadership for the NHS
Money & Business

Toward a Model of Leadership for the NHS

...or at least newly-prioritised, staff behaviours. This, in turn, means there will be a requirement for different priorities in leadership behaviours. Compassion, respect and humanity from frontline staff will evidently need to be better supported and engendered by a leadership community that holds these qualities as central to the core mission and purpose of the NHS....
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Article 5 mins
Languages and the refugee crisis
Languages

Languages and the refugee crisis

...communities of Sephardi Jews still speak their vernacular language more than 500 years after leaving the Iberian Peninsula – however this is not always the case. Second and subsequent generations can stop using their ancestors’ language for various reasons, both intrinsic (such as the need of demonstrating their belonging to the main group) or extrinsic (like...
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Article 5 mins
Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...communicating with the dead, and which were said by observers to imitate radio masts or transmitters, was a key example used by Western observers to assert the irrationality of the cults and by extension, to delegitimise them.The millenarian expectations of the “cultists” included the return of the ancestors, the delivery of varied forms of “cargo” to locals and...
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Video 20 mins
Thinking Outside the Box
Society, Politics & Law

Thinking Outside the Box

...community and how outputs can challenge simple ideas of ‘us’ and ‘them'...[Thinking Outside The Box artwork] Alena & Lisa: On your website you describe yourself as an illustrator and visual facilitator. How do you see these roles in relation to your artistic practice- in what sense do they inform your art, in what sense are they separate? What is the advantage of...
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Article 5 mins