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Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...social bonds with the entrepreneur and often work on the basis of risking their own money with the aim of big returns – a lot of bang for their buck! But this may not be the right choice, or even a realistic option, for the majority of new businesses – particularly if they’re not seen as potentially high-profit, high-growth. So, let’s put the external private...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?
Society, Politics & Law

Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?

...Social Attitudes surveys show increasing social tolerance of lesbian and gay lifestyles in Britain and greater sexual experimentation among women and young queer couples. Same sex marriage was legalised in 2014. While homophobia is still a live issue, it may still come as a surprise that some gay couples are still disinclined or afraid to hold hands while walking among...
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Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...working-class education as a means of social control and improved efficiency. [The monitorial system in action, Interior of the Central School of the British and Foreign School Society, London, from Paul Monroe, A Cyclopedia of Education, New York, Macmillan, 1913.] Figure 6a: ‘The monitorial system in action’, Interior of the Central School of the British and Foreign...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...working themselves out, which will become emergent and shape the future direction of politics, not only in Scotland but across the UK. Writing this in Scotland there is no doubt that it feels a very different place. While it is at times hard to express this in words, the wider context that informs political debate and discussion has certainly changed and the wider...
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People with dementia and meaning in music
Health, Sports & Psychology

People with dementia and meaning in music

...social outlet for women and men living with the condition and their partners (or other family members). Making music can also help people come to terms with the diagnosis and cope with their condition (Osman et al, 2014). In turn, music can provide comfort and help them maintain a sense of self as the condition progresses (Commission on Music and Dementia, 2018). However,...
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Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?

...social dreaming matrix to investigate the impact of art on climate change awareness. This topic too provides a methodological test case, because aesthetic experience eludes scientific or cognitive dominated methodologies; also because climate change is so painful to face that it needs methods going beyond denial, disavowal and projection. Free association narrative...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Volkswagen Scandal
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Volkswagen Scandal

...social responsibility and governance. In this episode of Bottom Line, industry and finance leaders discuss the implications of this event. As the show reveals, this scandal has a number of different facets. These range from what actually occurred to specifics of the technology used to manipulate emission data to VW’s response to whether this problem extends to the car...
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Systems explained by Humberto Maturana
Money & Business

Systems explained by Humberto Maturana

...worked with Humberto in Chile during the Allende years and later held chairs at Aston and Lincoln Universities and is the current Director General of WOSC (the World Organisation of Systems & Cybernetics) was also present and contributes to the conversation. The original filming was probably on Wednesday 12th March 1997. Humberto then presented a three-day workshop at...
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