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Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview
Education & Development

Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview

...family member, friend or colleague to read your proposal for clarity. [Feedback process - reflect, write, read, revise, ask for feedback] Use these links to read a sample research proposal, and open access guidance from other universities. Sample research proposal Sydney University/ How to write a research proposal for a strong PhD application Find A PhD/How to write a...
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Finding women in Greek literature
History & The Arts

Finding women in Greek literature

...families. The importance of lineage and female virtue forms a central feature of Jason’s union with the King of Corinth’s daughter in Medea, for example. The idea of appropriate marriage is also explored in Book 6 of Homer’s Odyssey. Here, the fact that Nausicaa is ready for marriage is symbolised by her wandering from the house to wash the clothes with her fellow...
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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...families navigating autism, education, health and social care services provides me with a unique perspective that is deeply personal and rich with insight. Yet, as a member of the academic community, I am also part of a system that has historically marginalised voices like mine. My current research project, titled ‘Mothering at the Margins’, has been designed with...
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Article 35 mins
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...family and provider. This underpinning of gender stereotyping continued into the education system, where girls were taught different subjects from boys, and reading books mostly featured male protagonists with women usually shown in domestic roles (Haralambos and Holborn, 1991, p. 284). These roles were accepted as correct and reinforced by society. They were restrictive...
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Article 10 mins
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...family home, now held by the National Trust. Clive’s enormous wealth attracted envy among England’s aristocracy, and some historians have argued that the attacks on his reputation as governor were motivated by jealousy. However, recent historians believe that much of the condemnation reflected genuine and warranted outrage at his administration of Bengal. Was...
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Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...families. But do they know much about their rights and responsibilities at work? This free course, Teaching citizenship: Work and the economy, explores aspects of work, including child labour and its relationship to citizenship for those teaching this subject in secondary schools...The issue of 'citizenship, work and the economy' is often neglected in everyday discussions...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...family, friends -- but also about what I could be doing that day, what I should be doing. Who I need to email, who I need to telephone. I wish I had a notebook under water. But I don’t. So very often I come out and I’ve forgotten what I was thinking about. But it comes back. And it’s a good stimulant for me. And when I come out and drive home and have breakfast, I...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...family Bible that sparked the imagination of the young Thomas Jackson: ‘There was one of Joshua’s army storming a hill fortress – with the great iron-studded door crashing down before the onrush of mighty men with huge-headed axes – that never failed to thrill’ (UK RED: 11442). What this entry reveals is how, even in a book as important as the Bible, features...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr