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Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...system of values of an organisation and its judgments about right and wrong. That is what makes thinking about purpose so intriguing. But a purpose does not result in an automatic set of ethical prescriptions: X is right, Y is wrong. There is significant room for interpretation of a purpose and what it means in practice. Moreover, a purpose may not always be fit for...
Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...system of ecological exploitation leading to a multitude of environmental effects ranging from species extinction to loss of biodiversity and climate change. Why banning the ad was political. Whilst Greenpeace often engages with politics, its primary aim is environmental and not political. The advert ban highlights the perception of the political nature of environmental...
Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...think. There was one on YouTube, the last time I checked that was about 9,000-odd views on there. The actual film itself, because you had to buy it, so obviously that would limit numbers to somewhat, but I think about 300/350 people-odd did pay to see the film. So an impact in some way anyway . Traditional television versus new media I’d say with the advent of...
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...system and develop your scientific thinking, explore our introductory science module, Questions in Science. MAN If you enjoyed this clip, feel free to follow the links on screen for more interesting articles and free courses from the Open University. Video 3 Could life have ever existed on Mars? Give two examples of extreme environments on Earth. The video mentioned high...
Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change

...thinking in terms of the previous episodes with climate sceptics, ideologically driven? AW: Nic Lewis is a little bit different to the climate sceptics that we often end by having dialogue with. He is prepared to put his ideas and his papers into peer-review and that means that instead of having an ideologically driven contest, which you can’t really get to any kind of...
Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...think one of the jobs of a playwright is to listen to those and keep up to date with those. I think on the whole you instinctively listen to the different rhythms of the way that people speak. Some people do speak in a more kind of flowing, mellow kind of a way, and some people have a more kind of jerky way of expressing themselves and, but if you do find yourself getting...
David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...think of at the time where I could get off the internet, and they were incredibly varied in what they have said and done over the twenty years, but they all have fantastic narrative. But if I’m thinking environment now, certainly Decade of Destruction was a very pertinent… I don’t know what it did in terms of the public, but in terms of our industry it was huge,...
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...think are the core elements of the course's approach to social policy? Esther Saraga Yes I think the most important word that you've used John is approach, and that's the key thing to get hold of with D218, that it's about a particular way of studying social policy. So it isn't about learning lots of facts and figures or about a range of policies and procedures or the way...