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Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...account of ‘external’ perceptions - How you support your current supporters is also an important influence on how you are perceived by potential new donors and contributors. If you become known as an organisation which values its contributors, your chance of securing new donors increases...Building relationships with donors: 3.6.5 Using ‘involvement devices’...
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...account for 16% of all A&E attendances, with just 0.7% of the population accounting for 29% of ambulance journeys and 26% of unplanned hospital admissions. The data also showed that many of the regular attenders were dealing with ‘mental health problems, relationship breakdown, housing insecurity or loneliness.’ Some vulnerable people use A&E weekly or more BBC News...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...accounted for the killing of 48–160 billion fishes and 220–520 billion crustaceans (Fish Count, 2019). Different jurisdictions have different laws governing legally permissible harming of farmed animals, but all ‘livestock’ farming necessitates killing. This is obviously so for ‘meat’, but also applies to killing ‘dairy’ cows and laying hens when they are...
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...account by equipment designers. The growth of applications of computers, and the incorporation of microprocessors in products, has meant that interaction design has become a major new area of application for human factors research. Many of us now use information technology devices either directly, such as in computer work, or indirectly in products that have embedded...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...account many matters which are not to be found within the statute itself. Legislation is not made in a vacuum, and a judge in interpreting it is able to take judicial notice of much information relating to legal, social, economic and other aspects of the society in which the statute is to operate. We do not think it would serve a useful purpose to attempt to provide...
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...account of the interconnectedness of all the components making up the problem situation and working more collaboratively...Are you thinking about studying Systems Thinking at postgraduate level and want to become equipped with the knowledge and skills to do so successfully? Do you want to develop new ways of thinking about and approaching situations that cross multiple...
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...account for the biggest part of an UK individual’s average direct carbon footprint (70% of the total) other important carbon footprints arise from powering appliances, including electronic equipment, and lights (13%) and holiday air travel (12%) (25% of the total) cooking (3%) and other travel (public transport and motorcycles, 2%) create relatively minor average...
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...account of the gravitational influence of both the Earth and the Sun), the behaviour of comets, and the gravitational origin of the Earth's oceanic tides. The scope and power of Principia caused a sensation, and made Newton the foremost scientist of his time, or perhaps any time. [Figure 11] Figure 11Principia - Newton's masterpiece Newton suffered another breakdown in...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs