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Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...analysis, evaluation, and criticality which allow me to present well-founded opinions." - Claire "I hadn't studied for 30 years and didn't know whether I could write academically. I have had to work hard on this as am still very slow but now write something every day and can see how this is helping me at work, even with emails." - Sara "Studying on the course has made a...
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Calculating your carbon footprint
Nature & Environment

Calculating your carbon footprint

...analysis shows that over half the emissions reductions needed to meet the Sixth Carbon Budget [a 78% reduction on 1990 UK territorial emissions by 2035] involve people making low-carbon choices, whether adjusting to the different characteristics of low-carbon technologies (eg, electric cars), or by changing their current consumption patterns (eg, by eating less meat)....
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I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem
Society, Politics & Law

I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem

...analysis...Channel 4 has billed its new reality show, Jury: Murder Trial, as a “landmark experiment”. A real-life murder trial is being re-staged in front of two juries of ordinary people to establish whether both groups will reach the same verdict. Some critics have speculated that the show could cause the public to “lose all faith in the British justice system”....
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The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport

...processes in the development of modern boxing’, Sport in society, 9(4), pp. 542–58. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17430430600768785. Van Gestel, J. (2018) Norbert Elias and the analysis of history and sport: systematizing figurational sociology. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge studies in social and political thought, 134)....
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Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...analysis (contrary to neoclassical economics which focuses on individual consumers and firms) and is critical of how national income is generated in capitalist societies more generally. Marx’s (1867) Labour Theory of Value provides us with an interesting and useful explanation for the entrenched economic and social inequalities that we discussed earlier. While a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...Data was stored on magnetic ‘floppy disks’, and any operations carried out on the data would be slow by today’s standards. With these characteristics, these computers could only be used comfortably by one person at a time. All this meant that the experience of the user was relatively simple and straightforward, as well as constrained. 40 years later, computers...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...analysis as to how I have developed from being a manual worker (bus driver), to a social work practitioner and onto my current academic post as a university lecturer in social work. Charting my passion for social justice Since my teenage years I have had a passion for social justice. In the early 1970s I sat with my mother watching a documentary on ‘battered wives’....
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What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?

...data taken from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). This places emphasis on workers, and could make the process more difficult for non-workers, such as the elderly or disabled individuals. Any data held by the HMRC or DWP on these non-workers are more likely to be records of their benefit claims, if any. Given the...
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