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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...sustained by women.’ These societies were started to campaign and fight for the vote. Their members were focused and hard-working, and they were also colourfully minded and inspired, looking both to the past and the future, as they held their banners high. Interested in learning more? Think you might be interested in taking your learning further? Are you new to higher...
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Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...sustained benefits come from regular engagement with activities (see more in Five Pillars of Ageing Well) but this is challenging at many levels for people living with dementia and their families and carers. This is even more difficult in the tomes of COVID-9. The Parks Trust is an independent charity that cares for over 6,000 acres of parkland and green space in Milton...
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The Psychology of Decision Making
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychology of Decision Making

...sustaining mental short cuts (heuristics) that help us to make quick decisions when pausing to undertake a full analysis would be unwise. While these ways of thinking are not the same as rigorous logic or formally rational reasoning, they are well suited to fast-paced intuitive judgements and actions. However, these evolved modes of thinking also create some major traps....
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Depression, mood and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Depression, mood and exercise

...sustain our physical and mental wellbeing over a long period of time. Perhaps it is again time to have a glass of water and go out for a walk? Some useful links: Exercise for depression: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/exercise-for-depression/ WHO (World health organisation) Depression: https://www.who.int/mental_health/management/depression/en/...
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Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?
Society, Politics & Law

Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?

...sustainable; only attack. The result is a cabinet of ministers who belittle anyone seeking to scrutinise them and a prime minister who announces a snap general election with incredible belligerence, claiming it to be in the national interest. The Brexit-obsessed elements of the media then helps her to sell that line. This strategy makes rational sense for GE2017 on many...
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Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...sustain the promise and progress of the new beginning to policing. Claire Hanna MP July 2025 New beginning or a false dawn? When you listen in on the policing conversation, you hear the frustration; the talk of a political class who look to the police to referee the most contentious of issues. How the failure to address legacy is still a barrier to full political support,...
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What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...sustain liquid water and its thin atmosphere means high levels of ultra-violet (UV) radiation reach the surface. This UV radiation reacts with the perchlorates present on Mars’s surface to create chemicals that kill bacteria. Research done by the UK Centre for Astrobiology (Wadsworth and Cockell, 2017) showed these chemicals can even kill very hardy spore-forming...
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Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...sustain – or otherwise – the nature and amount of any further donations and support from that donor. So our aim in this course is to provide you with an overview: of approaches you can adopt and issues you are likely to face in providing the right sorts of opportunities for people to become donors and contributors to your organisation. You will look at what is...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs