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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...code for Caucasian straight hair, granting more power and social capital. Indeed, the idealisation of Eurocentric femininity with her long blonde hair and blue eyes was the iconic Barbie doll created in 1959. In 1967 Barbie had a Black friend, ‘Colored Francie’, and ‘Christie’ a year later who were literally made from the same Barbie mould with the same facial...
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Article 5 mins
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...code of ethics conduct that governs the research process. The principles to be followed in conducting research with human participants, and which you must follow when collecting data for your research project, are outlined below: Informed consent: Potential participants should always be informed in advance, and in understandable terms, of any potential benefits, risks,...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...code. Code language can be really useful, if you want to keep information between certain groups of people only, but when talking about end-of-life care, it can actually, be quite unhelpful. It can make it really unclear for the dying person and those around them, to know what's going on and what they might be able to do. There's lots of examples of unclear language use...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...coded his maps of London, marking the poor areas in blue, and those he called vicious, semi-criminal, in black. JOANNA MACK Here we have a map Stepney in East London. You can certainly see on this map that whole streets get that classified as vicious semi-criminal. There's no wealthy at all in Stepney. If you chanced to look at some like the Kensington or Westminster...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...simple model that encourages you to think about interactions between you and a conversational partner or a small group. This model is based on psychological research and is easy to understand and apply in your daily life, whether at work, at home or in a social environment. In the following video, Dr Zoe Walkington introduces you to the content you will cover in this...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...simple diagram of the Earth system, showing the interactions of the atmosphere, biosphere (living things), hydrosphere (liquid water), cryosphere (frozen water) and land surface. These realms are illustrated respectively with images of a blue sky with clouds, a forest, the sea, snow on mountains and a crop. Red arrows are drawn to show that each realm interacts with each...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...simple single-figure portraits and moving on to elaborate narrative compositions, such as Jaffa and Eylau. In so doing, we will have three main aims: to develop your skills of visual analysis; to examine the relationship between art and politics; and to introduce you to some of the complex issues involved in interpreting works of art...In this free course, Napoleonic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...simple in structure and yet capable of directing the way we grow, reproduce and survive; hence it is often referred to as the genetic blueprint — the plan — of human life. Since genes are part of chromosomes they too are composed of DNA, which is why DNA is referred to as the genetic material. The following video clip contains a little more information about DNA....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs