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From Conversations on co-production to participants’ engagements
Society, Politics & Law

From Conversations on co-production to participants’ engagements

...social engagement. The co-production of this work has been part of the knowledge exchange between academics and arts, and depended on encounters between artists and researchers, asking questions, exchanging stories, dispelling myths: “Literally,” as Áine O’Brien of Counterpoints Arts stated, “bringing the media and policy narratives into shared ground through...
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Design ecologies animation
Science, Maths & Technology

Design ecologies animation

...social and ecological impacts, including the legacy of waste generated by consumer products. Design ecologies explore the entire system, mapping resources, flows, and interactions at various scales and geographies. This animation uses a smartphone as an example to introduce the concept of design ecology through addressing ways to reduce the phone’s environmental impact....
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About the Design Hub
Science, Maths & Technology

About the Design Hub

...social, ecological, and technological challenges, and build the capability, knowledge and skills needed to deliver creative and critical responses to these challenges using design thinking, practices, and processes. The design hub provides an overview of the wide-ranging themes and issues that design connects to, which will help you if you are considering studying design...
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Art history: C17th to C19th
History & The Arts

Art history: C17th to C19th

...Christ Church, Spitalfields This film looks at the urban development of Spitalfields, London, revealing the artistic and political messages encoded in Hawksmoor’s monumental church. Kedleston Hall What lies behind a façade? Studying the influences on the once-radical design of Kedleston Hall reveals social and intellectual preoccupations that play out to this day....
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Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...social development occurring within particular settings. This course examines what happens roughly between the ages of 10 and 19. This period of time in a young person’s life is sometimes called adolescence. The statistics you just looked at showed the situation in 2017. Did you perhaps ask yourself, ‘is that better or worse than previous years?’, and ‘What’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...social, economic, political, cultural and environmental change in ways that acknowledge the complexity and interconnectedness of our world. Global issues such as climate change and poverty transcend national boundaries and affect everyone. This free course introduces four key ‘challenges’ as a spur to thinking critically and creatively about responding to development...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?
Languages

Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?

...social media was predictably caustic. As one tweeter put it: “If you don’t know the difference between #heel and heal, you shouldn’t have the nuclear codes and you sure as heck shouldn’t be POTUS.” Similar mockery has greeted his previous linguistic fumbles, not least the notorious “unpresidented”, which was picked by some as 2016’s word of the year. It...
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Lesbian, gay and bisexual teenagers at much greater risk of depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lesbian, gay and bisexual teenagers at much greater risk of depression

...social progress in terms of the legal rights of sexual minority people, especially in wealthy countries. It might be easy to assume that life should have got considerably better for LGB young people. But the social and legal progress that has been driven largely by adults does not necessarily result in the improved psychological well-being of sexual minority young people....
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