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Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...economic power. Such research has endeavoured to call into question why it is that some harmful actions are viewed as ‘criminal’ while others are not. At the same time, research agendas that have sought to examine the actions of the powerful have simultaneously called into question claims about ‘neutrality’, ‘objectivity’, and ‘value-free’ research...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...economic and environmental benefits. b.The briefing paper suggests that eco-innovation covers all three categories of innovation, but itself only mentions incremental and disruptive – the latter understood as bringing about system level changes. The difference in language is noteworthy. As you might expect, eco-innovation refers to innovations that have some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...economic, political, cultural and environmental change in ways that acknowledge the complexity and interconnectedness of our world. Global issues such as climate change and poverty transcend national boundaries and affect everyone. This free course introduces four key ‘challenges’ as a spur to thinking critically and creatively about responding to development issues...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...economic status compared to Catholics, they still endured economic and religious discrimination at the hands of the politically dominant Anglican Ascendancy class. They especially resented having to pay so-called tithes, a form of taxation, for the upkeep of the established Anglican church (Dwyer-Ryan, 2013, p. 98). Most Presbyterians, because they did not own the land...
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Article 5 mins
Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...Economic Review, 107(3), pp. 714–47. Bagues, M., Sylos-Labini, M. and Zinovyeva, N. (2017) ‘Does the gender composition of scientific committees matter?’ American Economic Review, 107(4), pp. 1207–1238. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20151211 British Council. (2022) Gender equality in higher education: Maximising impacts (Executive summary). Available at:...
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Article 5 mins
Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...economic factors. The video emphasises the need to find a ‘middle way’ in understanding complex situations and, while acknowledging that religion may well still be a relevant factor, not just assume a simple link between religion and violence. Transcript Testing the role of religion in violence You’ll now explore the issues further, thinking in particular about how...
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Hammering into hearts: How Dilshod Nazarov's Rio victory lifted the Tajiks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hammering into hearts: How Dilshod Nazarov's Rio victory lifted the Tajiks

...economic crisis in Russia, where over a million citizens live and work, rattled the national economy to its core. The country has enjoyed few sporting achievements during a 25-year independence that began with a bloody civil war and has continued on through poverty, corruption and authoritarianism. No surprise, then, that Nazarov is being placed on a pedestal with the...
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Jake Chapman On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Jake Chapman On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Economic Development Committee at the national Assembly for Wales (2001-2003) Consultant to and Team Member of Performance and Innovation Unit projects, Cabinet Office, London (2001-2002), Associate of Demos, Think Tank based in London (2002 – 2012) – where Jake authored the highly influential System Failure: Why Governments Must Learn to Think Differently (2004) –...
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Audio 15 mins