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A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...analysis of how race structures the contemporary surveillance of Black bodies, Simone Browne states ‘Surveillance is nothing new to black folks. It is the fact of anti-blackness’ (2015, p.10). In her work Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Browne states that ‘If we are to take transatlantic slavery as antecedent to contemporary surveillance technologies...
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From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...Data from the Census in 2011 in England and Wales might assist in understanding some of these onward migrations; nevertheless, it is still quite difficult to provide an estimate of more recent migrations (i.e. post-2011) or migrations of BME ‘New Europeans’ in the UK. Previous research found that BME Europeans, especially where they were highly educated and skilled,...
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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
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...analysis and fracture mechanics and apply that to safety-critical components in the nuclear industry. I wasn't quite sure how my career and promotion prospects would develop – they employed a high calibre of people, so there was a strong professional ethos there, which I appreciated and enjoyed. Around the middle of the 1990s I had the opportunity to undertake one...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?

...data is from a small cohort of patients with COVID-19 and, although suggestive, it needs to be carefully interpreted and validated by other independent studies. How does radiotherapy treatment affecting the immune system in relation to COVID-19? Radiotherapy is the treatment where radiation is used to kill cancer cells and/or shrink the tumour. There are different types...
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Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...data areas who would be at the forefront of using some of these tools-- collaboration tools, messaging tools, those sorts of things. And now that has to be everybody because that's the way that we're communicating most of the time. So the real shift is in the way that we communicate and the tools we use to do it. And when I talk about communication, that could be a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What does Brexit mean for imports and exports?
Money & Business

What does Brexit mean for imports and exports?

...analysis is required, but it is easy to imagine an additional cost to UK-EU trade in the order of several billion pounds per year. Then there is also the risk of physical inspections. Depending on the nature and duration of the inspection, these costs could be anywhere between £52 and £1,540 per consignment. Ports would need to accommodate the increased demands for...
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