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My digital life
Digital & Computing

My digital life

Everything is becoming digital - what does this mean for your life?...[Business person working on keyboard against a technology background] As part of Make it Digital Season we have curated some content around the digital world and how it affects our daily lives:
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Learning from the past with historic buildings
History & The Arts

Learning from the past with historic buildings

...through the look and feel of the historic streets we now value for their heritage qualities can help us think about how assumptions from the past are still shaping our present; if we understand what we have inherited, we have a better chance of making informed decisions about our future. [Screenshot of animation for COP26] Click on the banner to explore the COP26 hub...
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60 second adventures in economics: The Principle Of Comparative Advantage
Society, Politics & Law

60 second adventures in economics: The Principle Of Comparative Advantage

...world. Fear of foreign competition once led countries to try and produce everything they needed, and impose heavy taxes to keep out foreign goods. However, economist David Ricardo showed that international trade could actually make everyone better off, bringing in one of the first great economic models. He pointed out that, even if a country can produce pretty much...
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Capacities for managing development
Money & Business

Capacities for managing development

...world are managed is undergoing radical change. In the UK, local communities are buying forested land, to preserve forests for the greater benefit of society. In the developing world, forestry commissions are actively empowering villagers to engage in forest management and conservation. The video tracks on this album use case studies in the UK and in India to illustrate...
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Is Huawei's low-key approach the secret of its success?
Money & Business

Is Huawei's low-key approach the secret of its success?

...world’s most innovative and fastest-growing companies – Huawei. Since its founding in 1987, Huawei has grown to become one of the world’s largest telecoms companies, with revenue of $75 billion. Globally it employs 180,000 with nearly 60,000 of these based at the Shenzhen campus. Our overall aim is to understand their global innovation practices.* We want to...
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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...world. Restoration efforts in China, Zambia and other countries seek to reverse this trend...[Tongwei County] Tongwei County, part of the Loess Plateau in China Around 3,000 years ago, farmers settled on the fertile Loess Plateau in western China, a region about the size of France. By the 7th century, the rich soils were feeding about one quarter of the Chinese...
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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...World You may have heard the term ‘VUCA’ (or VUCA World), which stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, and originated to describe complex military and security contexts. This is now used to illustrate the unpredictable modern business world, where organisations no longer operate in a steady, unchanging local environment but are subject to new...
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Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...world. My hope is, through interacting with the unit and asking yourself questions about your experiences, you will discover at least some of these characteristic ways of seeing the world. If you have previously studied Systems courses, you will already have experienced forms of systems thinking and perhaps ‘caught’ it in some way. You may even have developed your own...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs