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Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...concept of well-being but is much more readily measured and compared across people. While economists care about other meanings of inequality, such as happiness, health, and abilities, they tend to use monetary resources, such as income or wealth, to understand these different meanings of inequality. Inequality in monetary terms is what is called economic inequality. You...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...concepts. You can do this in a variety of ways...Revision and examinations: Making summary sheets or cards - Andrew Northedge, in The Good Study Guide uses a diagram to illustrate this (reproduced as Figure 4). He notes that: To boil the course down in this way, so as to extract its concentrated essences, is extremely valuable because it converts the broad themes and the...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...concept of digital health and social care technologies. In 2019 the Topol Review estimated that by 2039, 90% of jobs will require digital skills (Topol, 2019). Therefore, the digital skills you are learning as you study will be valuable both now and in the future. There are many perspectives about what digital health and social care is, ranging from simple use of...
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...concepts and principles relating to microbiology and its importance and applications in biological and health sciences and environmental sciences understand the contribution that microbiology can make to informed debate on medical and environmental issues make sense of information presented in different ways, including textual, numerical and graphical material...Microbes...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...concepts and terminology used to describe this active area of research and debate. Taken together, and alongside the academic skills you have gained as practising research scientists, our hope is that the course will facilitate further exploration of these important issues through self-directed study, e.g., of some of the follow-up materials that will be on offer after...
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...concepts being mobilised, organised around what poverty means and therefore what you do about it, is that a reasonable conclusion to draw. Gail Lewis Absolutely. Let's think about an example from now. It's July 2001, and there's been a whole series of disturbances in West Yorkshire and Lancashire towns and most recently, and perhaps the most violent have been the ones in...
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...concept, and the truth is that it can mean wildly different things to different people. The great paradox of leadership is that it’s one of the most talked-about concepts in existence, but also one with little agreement in terms of a basic definition. For this course, it’s important to work with a common definition. Otherwise, there’s a real risk of learners having...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...concept of personhood - The concept of personhood relates to everyone, including children, people with learning disabilities and older people. Older people are likely to have lived their lives with a relatively intact sense of themselves as individual people, but the process of ageing and dementia in particular can put that sense of self at risk. More importantly it can...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs