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Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...economic terms? What are the challenges we face in describing ‘race’ in our study of the past? Please be aware, this course includes descriptions and depictions of violence, slavery and racist language. If you are likely to find this distressing, please consider carefully how you might want to engage with this. OpenLearn’s Race and Ethnicity Hub This course is part...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...economic actors to be comfortable that their counterparts and competitors are going in the same direction. RH: OK, so give me a snapshot of the organisations you’ve worked for over the years because they have changed. BH: I’ve worked initially for the Australian Conservation Foundation in Melbourne, Australia. It’s one of Australia’s biggest environmental groups...
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...Economic and Environmental Development (UK CEED) and funded by the Office of Science and Technology, the Natural Environment Research Council, and NIREX – the company responsible for implementing policy on disposal of intermediate-level radioactive waste. Twenty-two experts selected by the citizens' panel gave 5-minute presentations before debating the issues with the...
Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...economic change can be achieved successfully. Critical to this success is institutional development, as it is through developments in institutions that development in the policies that drive change can be achieved. However, institutions are rich and complex phenomena, and institutional development is a rich and complex process. It is therefore possible and necessary to...
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...economic, or environmental values’ (United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2022). Wildfire is becoming an increasingly pressing environmental challenge. Wildfires are getting bigger, more intense, and burning in places they have never been seen before. Between 1998 and 2017 there were 254 recorded major wildfires across the world, which resulted in an estimated...
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...economic conditions are problematic for international marketing. In particular: how price competition leads to lower quality, and indifference from the customer. This is discussed in a podcast that introduces the topic of the challenges of international marketing. Specifically, Albrecht’s (2006) reference to the growing internationalisation of Chinese organisations and...
Who is Justin Trudeau - and how did he become Canada's new Prime Minister?
Society, Politics & Law

Who is Justin Trudeau - and how did he become Canada's new Prime Minister?

...economically. Finally, Trudeau managed to hold his own throughout the debates despite at times arguing for unpopular causes, among them women’s right to wear niqabs at citizenship ceremonies or convicted terrorists' right to retain their Canadian citizenship. Whether it was Justin’s personality, a popular hunger for change, or the magic of the Trudeau name, the end...
Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets

...economic problems that keep people in unsanitary conditions. It might even create new, unintended sanitation problems. [An outside toilet, Bangladesh, 2010] An open-air toilet in Bangladesh, 2010 I’ll get this out of the way: the only reason I have lived in homes with not just one but two toilets, and other people have to walk miles for toilets that are shared by...