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‘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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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
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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Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...work of MacDonald and Marsh (2005) and others that poverty and social exclusion also play a significant role in shaping young people's mental and emotional wellbeing. The ways in which diversity and inequality impact on wellbeing challenge generalised narratives that tell of a general ‘decline’ in young people's health. The complex interactions of social and cultural...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Learning from the past with historic buildings
History & The Arts

Learning from the past with historic buildings

...work with our building traditions to create designs that will last?...Our need to act now in the climate emergency must recognise the value of looking at the past for the origins of our assumptions about how we build and why we value some habits of building. We need to create not just sustainable ways of building, but also sustainable ways of living as households and as...
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