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Making Social Worlds
Society, Politics & Law

Making Social Worlds

...communities are organised to regulate their social behaviour. People who lived under Apartheid in South Africa describe how their passbook governed their social world, from alcohol consumption to medical health. Philosophers, politicians and academics offer differing perspectives on requirements for citizenship and the importance of citizenship ceremonies in the UK and...
Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
History & The Arts

Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery

...La(r)mond, Wood, Walker, Elliot, Gordon and Mowatt. In the famous Bob Marley and the Wailers’ reggae band, Tosh is short for McIntosh. Other Jamaicans with Scottish names are Naomi Campbell (model), Shelley-Ann Fraser-Price (athlete) and Sol Campbell (footballer). [A cartoon of two figures wearing traditional Jamaican clothing] Glasgow University’s action in...
How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...communication and the importance of the unspoken are central themes of Woolf’s brief sketch. This is a story about language, about communication. The inhibitions restricting the conversation among the party’s guests, and the difficulty of finding ‘pure new words’ in which to express his feelings, frustrate Mr Carslake. As he looks at the painting of a heath Mr...
The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...communities that live within particular types of rural area are homogenous. Past failures to adequately understand or fully appreciate the implications of this point accounts, to a large degree, for the increasing disparities between different types of rural areas.” CEDRA Energising Ireland’s Rural Economy, Report of the Commission for the Economic Development of...
The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...communities. A just transition to forms of work which respect the fragility and power of nature can create better-paid green jobs for all. If we want a fairer and greener society, then we must set specific objectives to achieve this. It means jettisoning fairytale ideas of endless economic growth, and considering the data which tells us both our society and the natural...
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...community, most of us are working with theory in some sense: with germs of theory, fragments of theory, intermingling theories – and sometimes with fully articulated theoretical positions...Changing cities: 2 Acting locally in a world of connections - Places – the specific towns, cities, regions or neighbourhoods in which people find themselves living and working –...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Sea level rise | International case studies
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise | International case studies

...of climate change than many other nations for a range of reasons.... Read more... EXPLORE FURTHER: Read case studies in England to see how three coastal communities have adapted to the affects of sea level rises. Too see how your local area might be affected, follow this link to the map produced by Climate Central, based on the recent paper by Kulp and Strauss (2019)....
Skills for work
Education & Development

Skills for work

...communication, leadership and following, plus coaching and mentoring. These self-paced courses follow the same format of 24 hours of learning (3 hours per week for 8 weeks). The courses are designed for unconfident learners coming back into education. They align to national levels 4/5 - (1st year undergraduate study). Each course is digitally badged, allowing the learner...