3,643 search results
Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...works and landfill sites. It also plays an essential role in our social world, providing us with shelter and warmth, belonging and protection, connections and barriers, and a sense of identity and history. It is an indispensable part of our physical and social lives. However, it is also responsible for a huge 39% of all global greenhouse gas (‘carbon’) emissions. 28%...
View article Climate change and the built environment
Article 10 mins
History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration
Society, Politics & Law

History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration

...social support that might be needed to make the change work. This left space for the growth of radical parties such as the British National Party and the more recently formed UK Independence Party (UKIP). UKIP was founded in 1991 to oppose the Maastricht Treaty but became more visible in 2004, when it began speaking out more loudly about migration from Europe. That year,...
View article History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration
Article 5 mins
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...social factors at work and most would say that these go beyond the individual, their personality and their roles. Cult bonds are often created through such factors as the emotional attachment to the group and fear of powerful leaders making people feel dependent on the group (Margaret Singer, 1995). People can be highly attracted by the security offered by membership of a...
View course Starting with psychology
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Economy, business and development - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special
Society, Politics & Law

Economy, business and development - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special

...social exchange and political convergence. However, the Brexit decision was triggered in part by a perception that EU trade arrangements now restrain member states from pursuing global trade and undermine their social cohesion through increased movement and scaled-down welfare states. The single European market has been condemned for expanding regulation while its single...
View video Economy, business and development - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special
Video 30 mins
Reflections on the Free to Bleed event at the Vagina Museum
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reflections on the Free to Bleed event at the Vagina Museum

...worked on income-related findings, helped prepare slides, and created social media content to promote the event and create awareness. This helped me understand how research can be translated into accessible visuals and how rights around dignity, privacy and health appear in everyday experiences. As a law student, seeing these themes move from theory into practice was...
View article Reflections on the Free to Bleed event at the Vagina Museum
Article 5 mins
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...social contract by placing people and the work they do at the centre of economic and social policy and business practice.’ 5. Look at the table on p. 51 of the report, outlining the ten points for realising a ‘human-centred agenda’ based on three ‘investment’ goals. Afterwards, search for examples of organisations that are trying to achieve at least 1 of the 3...
View course Understanding organisational value
Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...Social Care. If you find this course interesting, take a look at the Open University course K220 Death, Dying and Bereavement. Alternatively, you can explore the related OpenLearn course, An introduction to death, dying and grief...Death and medicine: Postponement and promise: Learning outcomes - After completing this course, you should be able to: evaluate end-of-life...
View course Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...social psychology and other social sciences. In a previous contribution to the MiM blog, I considered the value of developing a social psychology of citizenship. In that post, I suggested that the specific contribution of social psychology is to examine citizenship in the everyday; to explore, in other words, the politics of ordinary and mundane political acts which are...
View article Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Article 5 mins