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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...mental health topic – eco-anxiety. Remote workers and eco-anxiety Admittedly, it might seem a stretch to include eco-anxiety in an article about remote digital carbon footprints, however, this is one area of carbon accounting that can have an unexpected positive social impact. It is also an excellent example of how our global challenges are often inextricably linked....
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How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?

...health every six months. Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020), which uses the mobile technology, provides information useful for reporting, planning, operational decisions and advocacy at the community, country and global levels. [Marketplace in Burkina Faso] A marketplace in Burkina Faso The project is currently implemented in eight countries in...
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Could Brexit allow the UK to drop the ban on cloning?
Science, Maths & Technology

Could Brexit allow the UK to drop the ban on cloning?

...mental integrity”. The UK’s laws have to be in line with this – but only until Brexit. Fifteen years to the month since the death of Dolly the sheep in Edinburgh, it’s time to take this opportunity to reconsider the law. The relevant UK legislation is the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (2008). Section three stipulates that it is a crime to place a human...
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Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...Health and Social Care. In this free course, Introducing healthcare improvement, you will be exploring what is meant by the terms ‘quality’ and ‘quality improvement’ in the context of healthcare. You will consider what constitutes the key dimensions of healthcare quality that improvement initiatives typically target. You will be introduced to some key ideas from...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
The science behind why we drink alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science behind why we drink alcohol

...Health and Wellbeing courses People have been consuming alcohol for at least 10,000 years. And when drinking water was rather risky, alcohol seemed a much safer bet . Amaldus of Villanova, a 14th-century monk, even wrote that alcohol “prolongs life, clears away ill humours, revives the heart and maintains youth”. Today people will give you many reasons for their...
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Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...mental wellbeing. You see people and you see young people who spend most of their lives here with no hope. If we’re talking about children within families, then there is emotional thing that they actually see their parents go through because the asylum process is not an easy process but, because of the limited resources that people have as well, they can’t actually...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?
History & The Arts

Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?

...health and social issues, from organ donation to the death penalty. But little research has explored the impact of portrayals of transgender people. For this reason, we wanted to see how transgender TV characters might influence the attitudes of viewers. Specifically, we tested whether political ideology plays a role in how audiences respond to these potentially...
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Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?
Education & Development

Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?

...health or mental health? So, from California to Texas, in elementary schools and colleges, administrators are considering the costs and benefits of redesigning bathrooms to accommodate transgender students. For example, students at University of Pittsburgh can now use bathrooms that conform to their own gender identity. Arizona State University, Ohio State and Wesleyan...
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