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North Sea, air safety and Brexit
Nature & Environment

North Sea, air safety and Brexit

...economically important to Scotland and the UK. But is the North Sea facing a new fight over who controls safety? Has it become a political battleground revealing just how difficult Brexit is going to be? Over the last 40 years almost 70 million people have flown in helicopters between the mainland and offshore oil and gas rigs in the UK side of the North Sea. That works...
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Article 5 mins
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

...economic factors that may limit participation in dissemination activities. Additionally, the academic community must be willing to embrace alternative forms of knowledge and dissemination channels, which may challenge entrenched norms and practices within academia (Dillard, 2000). Our project on Black mothers of autistic children serves as a pertinent example of how...
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Article 35 mins
Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete

...economic status (Dagkas and Stathi, 2007). "You do feel on the back foot if you don’t come from a rich family or a family who are already involved in sport… You’re starting off at a massive disadvantage against those kinds of people." "As an amateur you’re up against people with money who can afford physio or therapists, and these kids turn up with all the kit....
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Article 5 mins
Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...economic constitution is about transforming defensive trade weapons (eg tariffs, or anti-dumping duties) into common rules (say competition law) and compensations (subsidies to poorer regions who might benefit less than the single markets). The more Britain is perceived as adopting what Europeans see as a transactional approach and ignoring the EU’s rules of the game,...
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Article 5 mins
Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...economic and foreign policy. On the eve of the televised CNN debate the Fox News elite was puffed up with arrogant self‑satisfaction, hinting that the CNN show would pull in far fewer viewers than Fox, and even, in the case of Bill O’Reilly, saying dismissively that the CNN anchor was a mere ‘liberal’ who would not be up to anything. For its part, CNN was...
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Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...economically disadvantaged African-American communities in the rural southern states of America in the years following the American Civil War (1861–1865). Blues singers were descendants of slaves and elements of their music reach back to African origins. This course offers just a brief introduction, and only affords a glimpse of the complexities of music that is deeply...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...economic and political. Although we need to guard against simplistic causalities, it is relevant to think about how global trends may have local ripples. For example, as leaders we may be finding new ways of data collection for quality assurance and improvement, and thinking about what this means for planning. As you work through the material in this course, you should...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...economic sectors as we can see that there will be important differences between a business operating in the primary sector and one that provides a service. Nonetheless, it would also seem obvious that there may be big differences between businesses within the same broad economic sector. A farm and a coal mine will be very different although they are both in the primary...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs