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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
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
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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...
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
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Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...account for their delivery. They also have a council with elected and appointed members. Funding: the National Trust’s funding comes from membership fees (it has 3.7 million members!), donations, legacies and revenue from their commercial operations (shops, holiday cottages, cafés, etc.). They do not directly receive money from government, whereas many charities do –...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...accounts of our bodily routines, they would, even if they had nothing else, already be able to say a great deal about us: the alarm clock would tell them that our society had the concept of the regular working day; our clothes would tell about which parts of our body we considered proper to cover, what it was acceptable to reveal, and how we constructed gender and other...
Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...account is really seminal inasmuch as it’s getting us to think about the why girls were not appearing in discourses about youth culture, about young people in public spaces and one of their arguments was that that was because young women were primarily living out their cultural lives in the domestic sphere, their bedrooms were about training up to be wives and mothers,...