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COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice
Society, Politics & Law

COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice

...centre. The complex, uneven, conflicting and ever-changing entanglements of Glasgow’s social and economic needs with matters of environmental health and wellbeing are evident throughout Glasgow’s history, even if rarely acknowledged or understood much of the time. As Glaswegians, this is an important time to reflect on this history. Glasgow: from the second city of...
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Article 15 mins
Exploring Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring Europa

...centre. Here we look at what two upcoming missions hope to achieve and why this is important for space scientists and astrobiologists...Europa was first glimpsed up-close by the Pioneer and Voyager probes in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until the Galileo mission in the 1990s and early 2000s that our current understanding of Europa as a potentially habitable world developed....
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Article 5 mins
Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...children and how technologies are now implicated in complicated and contradictory ways, in every stage of the refugee journey. But it also shows the creative uses that Syrian refugee children make of the phone camera, for example, to capture their living conditions in Pikpa camp on the island of Lesvos. They may be victims of war, but they continue actively to imagine new...
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Video 5 mins
Can computers be therapists?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can computers be therapists?

...children and young people, many adults are already apprehensive about the amount of time kids spend online, with a lot of parents not wanting to encourage any further computer use. People can also be reluctant to try something that is perceived to be very new or untested. However, self-help utilizing modern technology for mental health problems is not a new thing, in the...
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Article 10 mins
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...research about the job and the company (who at the time was First Group) and I did a lot of work on my application. I was fortunate enough to be able to approach two drivers for advice and information. The first was the driver that advised I apply for the job and the second was a driver who would later become my instructor. Only a handful of close colleagues were aware...
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Article 5 mins
Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...centre extension. For a few years, it even boasted its own subcultural tribe, known locally as the Treebos, a loose collection of punks and goths who made it their base. Even then it was becoming an excruciatingly slow victim of poorly designed commercial drainage. Together, the cows and the Midsummer Place Intu shopping centre extension they were placed in, look like all...
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Video 25 mins
Swallows and Amazons
History & The Arts

Swallows and Amazons

...children and the books behind Swallows and Amazons...Explore Swallows and Amazons with exclusive videos and activities. First published in 1930 Swallows and Amazons recounts the adventures of the Walker and Blackett children and their idyllic summer holiday camping and sailing in an imaginary Lake District landscape; encountering pirates and finding buried treasure. From...
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Article 5 mins
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...research methods in social sciences...In a complex and rapidly changing world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves and understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This free course, The social in social science, provides a basic overview of how...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs