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Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University Cuts in welfare were at the heart of George Osborne’s agenda coming into the present parliament in 2015. Two years later, not a single new measure affecting benefits was announced in this budget. Any new welfare savings have been formally ruled out in this parliament, with the proviso that if spending breaks...
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Discussing intersectionality: race, gender and social class
Society, Politics & Law

Discussing intersectionality: race, gender and social class

...research? This series of videos explores...In this series of videos, Umut Erel from The Open University discusses the topic of intersectionality and how it relates to social research with Tracey Reynolds, Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Greenwich, and Ann Phoenix, Professor of Psycho-Social Studies at University College London. What is intersectionality?...
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Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...centre of your search planning for secondary (and primary) data should be your topic and research questions. What is the main focus of your research? What do you want to explore with your secondary data? It may be more helpful to start with some broad terms and as you progress with your search make your search more specific. The type of data that you require will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...children and adolescents, in hospitals, clinics, assessment and treatment centres, education, social care settings, or within the home. Sometimes people with mental health problems face discrimination and stigma and, as a mental health nurse, a key part of your role would be to advocate for those that you work with. Watch Video 7 about mental health nursing produced by...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...centre. The idea of ‘Clydebuilt’ serves to illustrate the importance of the city in equipping not only Britain itself, but also the far-flung reaches of the Empire with the ships, locomotives and heavy engineering commodities necessary to fuel economic expansion. Crucially, then, Glasgow's (‘local’) economic fortunes, as with those of many of the other ‘older’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...children are born equally and many also face discrimination, or multiple forms of discrimination, due to their class, gender and/or race which can impact on their future educational and employment life-course opportunities. [A photograph of the bottom half of six people standing in a line. In front of them is the text: youth.] Between 2010/11 and 2018/19 there has been...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...children highest. Also, most of the research carried out in this area has focused on heterosexual relationships. However it has been found that there are far more similarities between homosexual and heterosexual relationships than there are differences. This section focuses on people's experiences of intimate relationships both in terms of what attracts us initially and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...Centre for Policy Research), https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/empire-marketing-board-1926-33-britains-failed-attempt-soft-trade-policy. Drawing on their ‘Britain’s Empire Marketing Board and the failure of soft trade, 1926-1933’, in European Review of Economic History, 25, pp. 780-805 Horton, Melanie. Empire Marketing Board Posters (Manchester: Scala, 2010). A small...
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