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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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Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?

...world, says Aisling Irwin...[MIT's Baxter, a robot designed to manipulate objects] Baxter, a robot designed at MIT to mimic human dexterity with small objects On a tour of the vast Beximco garment factory in Bangladesh in 2014, I saw the upside of outsourced manufacturing: a bright and organised shopfloor; and endless rows of women churning out fashion for major brands...
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Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...world, or what role is played by biological changes within the individual? Because child psychology is so vast and tries to answer so many questions, researchers and practitioners often separate development into specific areas. Broadly, these tend to map onto children’s physical, cognitive (thinking, learning, memory, etc.) and social/emotional development. Child...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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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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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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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