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Ecosystems: modelling the Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

Ecosystems: modelling the Earth

...interactions taking place between every living organism and climatic activity. Since everything is interconnected, Earth systems modelling can help our understanding of how the Earth's processes affect each other. For example, by increasing the rate of decay of leaf litter in North American forests, scientists can investigate the effect on global temperatures. The acid...
Ecosystems: living communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Ecosystems: living communities

...the role of the sun, carbon, and energy interactions between organisms in ecosystems Humans enter the equation How human activity affects the delicate energy balance in an ecosystem with often adverse consequences Managing or meddling? How ecosystems need careful understanding if we are to sustain them for the future whilst using them to our economic advantage...
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...social justice as an idea and an ideal is interwoven with issues of inequality, poverty and social exclusion. It is a comparatively straightforward task in the era of World Wide Web access (though by no means everywhere or for everyone) to locate sources of information illustrating the extent of poverty and inequality, though much of the latter, particularly in relation...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...social communication and interaction: autistic people find it hard to interact socially with others or to make friends. They have communication difficulties – some can’t speak at all; others develop speech later than usual; others can speak perfectly well, but have problems with the social aspects of communication. For example, they don’t understand when a listener...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The age of offence
Society, Politics & Law

The age of offence

...social media, the giving and taking of offence seems to have become an integral part of modern life. The news media regularly spark moral panics about the rise of a new McCarthyism, we’re told that universities are suffering from a crisis of academic freedom, politics has become an all-out struggle over competing claims of victimhood, and everywhere people seem to be...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two

...social bonds. We are less likely to be fearful of ‘crime’ if we feel a sense of connection to our local communities. Fear and insecurity around ‘crime’ are often closely tied to people feeling socially isolated. Fear of victimisation is significantly decreased when there are strong local communities and support mechanisms for people to participate in community...
Welfare, crime and society
Society, Politics & Law

Welfare, crime and society

...social justice, security and community. The tracks on this album explore how forms and practices of surveillance reveal the entanglements between welfare, crime and society and the tensions and overlaps between policies aimed at delivering social welfare and those intended to control crime. The material is drawn from the course DD208 Welfare, crime and society... Welfare,...
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...social interaction. Encouragement of independence: the extra space offered by being outdoors will give children the sense of freedom to make discoveries by themselves. They can develop their own ideas or create games and activities to take part in with their friends without feeling like they’re being directly supervised. They’ll begin to understand what they can do by...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs