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How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful

...health. Taking notice of the world around us is one of the 5 Ways to Wellbeing, which means it is something that makes us feel good. Keeping active and taking care of our mental health is especially important as we get older and Green and Blue spaces are well recognised for making a substantial difference. But it’s not always easy for older people, carers, care home...
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Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...health, and apply it to nature conservation. And I’d really like to see if there’s a network of interested parties, and of course, disciplines, because I’m very cross-disciplinary in my thinking about optimal collaboration, whether we could create a network that would drive digital technology solutions for nature conservation to really have an impact. Should natural...
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A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...public attention to the problem. The first of the local Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children were set up in Liverpool in 1883 and London in 1884: five years later they became the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. In 1889 the act known as the 'Children's Charter' was passed, permitting the law to intervene between parents and...
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Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...public access to its historic decision-making. Unfortunately, this has been sadly lacking for a number of years...[Monument to Human Rights outside the Council of Europe, Strasbourg. Some rights reserved.] Monument to Human Rights outside the Council of Europe, Strasbourg. Wikicommons/ EPei. Some rights reserved. Especially in Britain given our intended imminent departure...
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Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy

...public opinion in the public sphere, is a key component of liberal democratic politics. A dilemma, therefore, is how these tools, which secure liberal democracy, can also be used to challenge it. This has been an aspect of my research into the 15M movement in Spain, and their attempts to change people’s perceptions of what is politically and economically possible....
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Shakespeare: For All Time?
History & The Arts

Shakespeare: For All Time?

...Public Theater’s modern-dress production of Julius Caesar, staged in Central Park, features a Caesar who wears a red tie and an orange wig. The apparent parallels with Donald Trump have caused outrage in conservative media. A Fox News report on the production was entitled “Shakespeare in Park Depicts President’s Murder.” As a result of the controversy, some of the...
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An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill
Health, Sports & Psychology

An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill

...health very little is actually known about the lived experiences of children and young people living with a loved one who is seriously ill and the impact that this has upon their lives. In the absence of data our research carried out by the Children’s Research Centre focused on three key areas. Firstly we wanted to find out how many children and young people are living...
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Article 15 mins
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...public...In this free course, Software and the law, you'll look at the laws relevant to software and its use, taking a global perspective. A major part of this course is devoted to intellectual-property law, the issue of who owns software and digital content and how that ownership can be protected using instruments like copyright and patents. We also cover how contracts...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs