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Sea level rise in Bangladesh
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Bangladesh

...economic resources to adapt to the effects of climate change with protection measures, such as sea walls, nor the means to cope with the consequences of large storms and devastation of people’s homes and livelihoods. The people of Bangladesh are used to living with water and the sea. The south-west of Bangladesh is characterised by low-lying lands, with dwellings and...
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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...Economic Forum (weforum.org) Social intelligence is often linked with the use of emotional intelligence. This involves an interplay between emotions (the affective domain) and thinking (the cognitive domain). Stavrou Theodotou (2020) uses the work of Mayer and Salovey (1997) to identify four cognitive abilities that illustrate emotional intelligence: Appraisal and...
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Understanding the realities of invisible disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding the realities of invisible disabilities

...economic implications when people are prevented from fully participating. What needs to happen next? A key step is to reduce the expectation that people must continually prove their disability especially in informal or public contexts. This involves developing a culture where individuals are more readily believed when describing their needs or accessing
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...economic opportunity. A lot of the people who – especially who are young, who are selling drugs and doing it because those were the only jobs that they can get, once you’ve been convicted of a drug offence you no longer can get any other job, even if you get out of prison, you know, you’re banned from other jobs, you’re not able to get access to education, so...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...economic contribution of fishing in other parts of the UK. Across the UK, but much more so in England, fishing has been a key plank in the support for Brexit. In England, the symbolism of fishing arguably exceeds that which is evident in Scotland. Outside the main Scottish fishing communities, fishing policy has little influence on voting patterns. However, it does...
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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...economic status’ (OECD, 2021). So, finding effective ways to motivate and support all pupils to develop the habit of reading is a matter of social justice. It can help address societal inequities and, as the International Reading Association states, is every young person’s right (ILA, 2018). So how might theories of reading motivation help? [The multi-dimensional...
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Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...economic decline. There have been more people coming to the cities. And this was seen as a large social problem by the middle classes, ruling classes. And there was a great interest in knowing what was the scale of the problem. Charles Booth was interested in the question of how many of this increasing number of poor people were there. This wasn't about causes. Poverty...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...Economics, also known as ‘nudge theory’ Neuromarketing in practice and some of the ethical considerations about its use Consumer Culture Theory from a practical and academic perspective...Understanding your customers: 2.1 Session learning outcomes - After studying this session, you should be able to: appreciate the contribution of behavioural economics in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs