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Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...determine how these needs are defined and assessed, as well as how support is funded and provided. Further Reading Geronimus, A. T. (2023) Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life on the Body in an Unjust Society, Virago Press, London, UK. Malcolm, C. and Green, M. (2025) Mothering at the Margins: Black Mothers Raising Autistic Children in the UK, Lived...
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Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...determining IT success or failure later in this course. You will learn much more about the nature of success and failure in IT systems later in this course. For now, we will use the following definitions: a successful IT system is one that meets the needs (i.e. the goals or strategy) of an organisation within which it is used, as well as relevant needs of other key...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...determines police practice? What determines police priorities? Whatever the answers to these questions we can be sure that part of the explanation will involve more than uncovering the individual preferences and interests of the actors involved. We would, for example, need to look at how a social institution like the police force or the Environment Agency operates; who...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...determined by policy, but it is also how her life is ordered, the way she experiences the community she lives in, how it regards her, and who she becomes, that are affected. These also affect the personal lives of those around her – tragically so if the Sheriff's interpretation of events holds. But, in less extreme forms, in more moderate regimes that connect welfare to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...determine whether a tumour can be operated on and, if necessary, what type of follow-up therapy – whether chemotherapy or radiation therapy – would be needed. This added insight allows surgeons and their patients to make more informed decisions about their treatment. The past few years have seen an explosion of proof-of-concept clinical trials in the field of...
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More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...determining government policy, determining the policy of all sorts of bodies, but do you think anything’s really changed? TIM HARFORD: I think we have taken some steps in the right direction, but they’re quite small steps. So, for example, there is more emphasis on the use of randomised trials to inform social policy. The Prime Minister famously set up what has been...
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Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...determined not to “fail” the test. The experience reminds me of a time I arrived in a rural town a few hours outside Beijing and was forced to make myself understood in a language I could neither speak nor read, among people for whom English was similarly alien. But even then, there had been clues… Now, without any accompanying human interaction, the rules governing...
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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...determine whether children’s attention to same-sex models was influenced by their level of gender constancy. Fifty-five 2- to 5-year-olds’ level of gender constancy was assessed by using a series of fourteen questions and counter-questions. Several questions tapped gender labelling. For instance: Is this a girl or a boy? (showing boy/girl doll) Are you a girl or a...
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