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Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...accountability which is missing in other accounts of leadership. With this in mind, we will encourage you to think about an ideal, albeit imaginary person evoked by your organisation and ask that you reflect on how (a) this person is brought to life through practices and processes and (b) how this image might be challenged, questioned and adapted. After completing this...
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...account which draws out different kinds of collaboration, and some of the possibilities and challenges of collaborative working relate that account to the current environment for voluntary organisations and to acting and leading within that context offer a critique of the account of collaborative leadership introduced in this week’s studies...Week 1: Thinking about...
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...account, add a zero to the beginning of the 2nd line of working, as shown below. multiline equation line 1 3965 line 2 multiplication multiplication 25 low line line 3 19825 line 4 super four three two line 5 79300 low line line 6 super one one one line 7 99125 low line line 8 super one one The next activity will give you a chance to practise this. Here’s a reminder of...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...account of Wakefield's hypothesis. Wakefield claims that research has found measles in the guts of 75 of 91 autistic children with bowel disease. 19 June 2002 Wakefield presents evidence to a US congressional committee claiming that the measles virus identified in the guts of autistic children had been identified by a team led by John O'Leary as originating from the...
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...account that ‘diagnostic and therapeutic differences between the two entities’ were deemed ‘too small to warrant separate classification’ (Bschor et al., 2014). NOTE: (*) The time at which depression becomes ‘chronic’ by definition has been set, more or less arbitrarily, at two years. Chronic and treatment-resistant depression present the same symptoms as an...
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1483, published three years later in Mainz (Figure 29). Figure 29 Erhard Reuwich, Saracens, from Bernhardt von Breydenbach’s Peregrinationes, 1486, woodcut. With permission of the British Library, shelf mark C.20.5.3. Yet another important source of oriental imagery is an arresting picture (now in the Louvre) by an unknown...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...accountability, moderation and an open license to try and possibly fail, knowing you can always revert to the previous version. You don’t get that with design, because the changes are not granular and are not as easily traceable. The first step is steep, and a ladder is nowhere to be found. Encoding/Decoding In his 1980 article “Encoding/Decoding,” cultural theorist...
EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...accounted for 45% of UK exports and 53% of imports (of goods and services) in 2014 , and EU membership is calculated to have increased this share by over 50%. National Policies International rules are both enabling and constraining. The EU surrendered some national power to “Brussels” when it joined the EU, and gave up more powers as the EU extended its Common...