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Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia

...World Environment Day is celebrated on 5th of June every year, not long after Africa Environment Day (3 March) and the UN’s International Women’s Day (8 March). In this context, last year for Africa Environment Day, I discussed Wangari Maathai. This year, I would like to mention another inspiring example to help celebrate all those three days. Sue Edwards was a...
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Article 15 hrs 45 mins
Climate change and alternative living: issues of adaptation and sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change and alternative living: issues of adaptation and sustainability

...world, such as deforestation, urbanisation and the domestication of the natural world. We are now facing the impact of these changes on our living conditions. The challenges to living on Earth are now two-fold, one is facing natural calamities which cannot be controlled or minimised, e.g., earthquakes, volcano eruptions and storms. The other is the impact of human...
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Article 10 mins
Cultural differences in mental health?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cultural differences in mental health?

...World Mental Health Day 2014] A mental health awareness rally at Periyar University, Salem, India, marking World Mental Health Day 2014 With most medical conditions it could be expected that, regardless of what country or culture the person affected was living in, the experience of illness would be very similar and that there would be common agreement, for instance, about...
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Article 5 mins
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...world. You'll use a variety of disciplines in the course such as demography, health studies, sociology, comparative social policy, history, political science and economics. This interdisciplinary nature brings different perspectives together to create fresh insights and provide a bridge for different ideas to feed into social and political change. Towards the end of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...world that we work in. How I got started Originally I went to Brighton University, I trained in graphic design. I always knew I wanted to work in television in some way, but I wasn’t quite sure what way and then I saw that there was a traineeship at the BBC for a creative, making trailers, making branding and idents and things. I thought, ‘Right, I’m just going to...
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Video 30 mins
Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...World War. He studied Classics at Oxford in 1923, and later became a lawyer where he became involved in international affairs. Vickers is regarded as a systems practitioner rather than an academic. He introduced many of the basic systems thinking terms, and derived the concept of appreciative systems to describe human activity. He recognized that appreciation of systems...
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Video 10 mins
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...world, the pandemic overturned our ways of working. For many workers the pandemic caused losses of work, increased unemployment, informality, reduced incomes, business closures. Around the world all but essential workers stayed at home. But what exactly is “essential work”? Employers and authorities were slow to ensure adequately safe working conditions for many of...
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Video 5 mins
Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit

...world that appears increasingly hostile to expertise, Janet Newman suggests ways forward – and some new alliances...[A man shouts into a traffic cone as part of a protest against Brexit] In the immediate aftermath of the UK referendum I felt that the result had undermined my last 20 years of research and teaching. What had been the point, I wondered, of trying to offer...
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Article 5 mins