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Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...changed hands many times between the Normans and Gaelic Irish. Castles were built, taken over, destroyed and rebuilt as each side tried to gain control of this important location. This pattern continued during the turmoil of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The granting of Newry and its hinterland to Sir Nicholas Bagenal in the mid-sixteenth century...
Making a difference: Youth participation
Education & Development

Making a difference: Youth participation

...Changing Faces - a charity that supports young people living with a facial disfigurement and works to tackle appearance-based discrimination. Ellie has been extensively involved with the Diana Award, a scheme which recognises young people who have made a positive difference to their community (http://diana-award.org.uk). Since receiving the award she has also been...
Creativity at Work
Money & Business

Creativity at Work

...changing landscape. Featuring a series of interviews on topics such as flexible working, the role of leadership and creating under constraint, this collection also takes a closer look at fear, bias and intuition and the role they play on shaping creative environments. It examines approaches used by both private and public sectors and gives an insight into how they use...
Video 1 hr 16 mins
Why gender quotas in business and politics are ineffective at overcoming sexism
Money & Business

Why gender quotas in business and politics are ineffective at overcoming sexism

...change a culture of misogyny...Cultural change is slow, difficult and dependent on everyone’s commitment in practice, not just rhetoric. Actually seeing successful women in the UK’s elected parliaments and assemblies is important, but embedding gender equality as something normal will involve a much longer and deeper process of engagement with identity and ethical...
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...change in an ever-changing policing context. It provides insights to help individuals become more effective leaders of teams and organisations, and to engage more effectively with key community stakeholders...This free course is one in a series focusing on leadership, decision-making and communication in the context of policing with the community. This particular course...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...change over time. In voluntary groups, members may select themselves. Sometimes it is hard to judge the extent of difference between the skills or experiences that members have if the group or team is short-lived, or if members are required to carry out a very similar task without very much interaction. Thus, you may have found some questions were not as easy to answer as...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Contemporary Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Contemporary Wales

...you make sense of a changing nation...This free course provides an accessible and lively social science account of contemporary Wales. It introduces key aspects of the economy, society, politics and culture of Wales, providing a wealth of up-to-date evidence that is organised around core social science concepts and theories, to help you make sense of a changing nation....
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Titty or Tatty: What's in a name?
Languages

Titty or Tatty: What's in a name?

...change with the times - and why some things are better left untouched...[A boat on the water in the Lake District] The lakes of Swallows And Amazons are calmer than the activity behind the latest production A 2016 BBC adaptation of the ‘Swallows and Amazons’ book series, sparked controversy after it was revealed that one of the characters was being renamed ‘Tatty’...