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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...economic contexts. This makes development management rich in complexity and sometimes rather messy! You will recall that in Week 1 it was noted that development actors often see development quite differently from the communities they are working with. In the next section you will start with watching a Ted Talk that seeks to explore how low income groups address life’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...economic and social consequences seem to me to exemplify what a fallacy this is. The reading also highlights how complex the process is of testing a seemingly straightforward hypothesis in the ‘real world’ as opposed to carefully controlled laboratory conditions. Fitzpatrick chronicles the barrage of experts stepping forward to criticise Wakefield's study and issue...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...economic status, so will often use terms such as ‘professional’ or ‘homeowner’. This difference seems to suggest that women ‘think’ that men look for personal attractiveness whilst men ‘think’ that women want security – the wording of the adverts reflecting what each gender ‘thinks’ that the other is looking for – is supported by a range of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...economic, social and political relations between classes are issues on which they differ. One of the clearest alternatives to Iain McLean’s thesis was provided by John Foster (LR, D.iii & iv see section 6) who argued that the years 1914-19 represented a critical juncture where class struggle and consciousness took a qualitative leap forward to the edge of a...
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Article 20 mins
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...economic redevelopment and population growth after a long period of post-industrial economic decline. The area of Sandford we are concentrating on is a suburb on the edge of the town that is experiencing changes associated with the redevelopment process. As an area of urban regeneration, old terraced housing is being cleared away for modern social housing developments....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...economic, or social order, especially regarded as oppressive; the Establishment; any impersonal, restrictive organisation, with reference to business and social organisations and the operations or interactions they involve. OED (2013) These relate to systems that we can look at and see. But the word ‘system’ is more flexible. Here are some more ideas from the Oxford...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...economics and politics. But what about the period itself: what aspects of life and events characterise the time between 1500 and 1780? Activity 2 What do you know about early modern Europe? Timing: This should take around 5–10 minutes Take a few minutes to jot down anything you know about the period 1500–1780: any events that happened or people who lived between these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...economic power, access to resource, and sexuality. They do little to challenge a gender ideology that is based on a simple binary classification model which comes with quite fixed ideas about how to understand sex and gender. This binary model suggests that all people can be classified into one of two sex categories: male or female. These sex categories are identified as...
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Article 15 mins