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Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...English Literatures. Peter Lang, 2001. Rieder, John. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. Wesleyan UP, 2008. Sleigh, Charlotte. Literature and Science. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Suvin, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre. 1979. Edited by Gerry Canavan, Peter Lang, 2016. Ralahine Utopian Studies 18....
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Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...English sport governance’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, pp. 1–17. doi: 10.1177/1012690219865980. Sport England (2019a) Active Lives Children and Young People Survey, Academic Year 2018/19. Available at:
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Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...English Health Authority 11% of one parent families were headed up by nurses (Delamothe,1988). Remembering the nurses strike of 1988 The third dispute of 1988 occurred in December and was solely a nurse’s dispute on the issue of pay after nurses were promised significant pay rises but once again found that the small print of the regrading exercise would mean that the...
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Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...English secondary schools. Grant number: ES/V016989/1. The project was led by Professor Jacqueline Baxter, with thanks to Dr Katharine Jewitt, Research Associate, for her work on the course. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...English, the Scottish and so on, as well as people who were skilled workers, unskilled workers, people in very precarious forms of employment. And those divisions have always existed to be exploited and, from the 1980s onwards, many of those internal divisions widened for various reasons, not least because of deindustrialisation, consigning many traditional industrial...
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Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...English and liberal, although of course many of the greatest novels can usefully be thought of in that way. If a novel like Charles Dickens's Great Expectations (1860–1) may be thought of as a ‘classic’ example of the genre, then we would expect to find that the nature of its realism is more than simply a matter of the presentation of the moral growth of a single...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
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Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...English, but also Mathematics and Science subjects (Whitten et al., 2016). [A girl in school uniform sat at a classroom table reading a book.] Reading for Pleasure is also a tool for social justice and is recognised as a stronger indicator of future educational attainment than socio-economic status (OECD, 2021). Research has found that reading to 4–5-year-olds regularly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...English language in the mid nineteenth century to refer to informal engravings found on ancient vases, walls, flagstone paving and rocks from Ancient Greece and Rome. However, more recently ‘graffiti’ has been used to refer to both engravings and paintings (singular and plural). The term is now generally used to refer to ‘any form of unofficial, unsanctioned...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs