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‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds
Education & Development

‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds

...economic background, disability, culture and religion in defining the experience of female students from South Asian backgrounds. While none of the participants reported experiences of racism or micro-aggressions, their narratives spoke of a lack of visibility of themselves and their lives in their overall university experience. Several factors were identified that...
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Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?

...economic cost of antimicrobial resistance. He called for “the world’s governments and industry leaders to work together in radical new ways.” But Gerry Bloom, a physician and economist at the Institute for Development Studies, argued that any measures to stop overuse and concoct new drugs must be “complemented by investments in measures to ensure universal access...
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What will Donald Trump do for the environment?
Nature & Environment

What will Donald Trump do for the environment?

...economic order after the second world war. If a Trump administration does shift the US away from this leadership role, the global power relationships could change radically. The environmental movement will need to be proactive and adapt quickly. For example, a post-US-led world order may allow alternatives to the US-style capitalist form of social organisation to become...
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Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?

...economic and social development – definitively drew to a close in the late 1960s. Decolonisation was by then rampant. In 1967 Britain left Aden ignominiously, and announced a timetable for withdrawal of all forces from ‘East of Suez’. [Carry On Up The Khyber Williams] The Khasi of Kalabar (played by Kenneth Williams) and Bungdit Din (played by Bernard Bresslaw);...
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Wellbeing for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing for Work

...economic climate. The current situation can be termed as an international global disaster. According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies a disaster is defined as: “a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed...
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How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...economic, ethnic cleansing to cull the so-called subpopulation. But a quarter of this country is deemed poor. They are living on less than half the average income. We all know poor people. Some of us are poor people. They are not “them”; they are “us”. The welfare state has produced not poverty but some stability, security, and growing equality. But the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission (EC), to inform innovation policy sets out four main types of innovation (OECD/Eurostat, 2005): Product innovation – a good or service that is new or significantly improved. This is perhaps what we think of most often when we think of an innovation. Process innovation – a new or significantly...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...economics, cultures, and social relations. The way that empires were established and maintained required the exercise of different forms of power: from military conquest and violent suppression to cultural hybridity and ‘philanthropic’ investment. [Described image] Figure 1 ‘The History of Mexico: From Conquest to the Future’ by Diego Rivera, murals at Palacio...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs