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Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...Working at Ealing, Basil Dearden developed the ‘social problem film’ within a fictional format, such as The Blue Lamp (1950) dealing with juvenile delinquency, reflecting a contemporary moral panic, and later Sapphire (1959) which dealt with issues of race and immigration following the Notting Hill riots of the previous year. (These issues were addressed again later,...
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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...working with services and hardware such as products and buildings typically prioritise the social and technical aspects of systems. Creating conditions for resilience requires us to develop and practise ecologically literate ways of designing integral to our human concerns, as systems scientist Fritjof Capra sets out: Design, in the broadest sense, consists in shaping...
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Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...social citizenship. With particular reference to women and disabled people, you will look at the rights and obligations that develop within society to link people together...How do you create citizenship? How do you feel you belong? This free course, Engendering citizenship, examines social citizenship. With particular reference to women and disabled people, you will look...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...social scientists; they also include photographs and other images. As you work with these you need to pay attention to what is being claimed – and what might be missing from the arguments advanced. We shall return to these issues during the course...‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places: 2.1 The shaming of America - I begin our story with a case study relating...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...work and free time’, Social forces, 84(1), pp. 285-303. Sayer, L. C. (2016) ‘Trends in Women’s and Men’s time use, 1965–2012: back to the future?’, Gender and couple relationships: Springer, pp. 43-77. Women in Sport, (2020) EMPOWERING WOMEN AND GIRLS THROUGH SPORT: Our Impact 2018 & 2019. van Houten, J. M., Kraaykamp, G. and Breedveld, K. (2015) ‘When do...
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Are you a design creative?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are you a design creative?

...work not as craftspeople, but also as ‘knowledge experts’. Designers became responsible for generating ideas that would add value to a product by making it for instance more desirable, safer or easier to use. Ultimately, designers became responsible for the creation of blueprints that will help construct or manufacture a particular type of product (e.g. a building, a...
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Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...social model? - In Engel’s seminal work, the biomedical model was defined as assuming ‘…disease to be fully accounted for by deviation from the norm of measurable biological (somatic) variables. It leaves no room within its framework for social, psychological, and behavioral dimensions of illness’ (1977, p. 196). But this model clearly needs to be expanded to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...social problems at home before practising ‘telescopic’ philanthropy and missionary work abroad. (In this last concern, his writing anticipates one of the presiding populist political themes of our own time: a misdirected targeting of non-citizens (immigrants) as the underserving recipients of resources that the majority population should claim.) His earlier novel...
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