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

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...de Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades (Human Development Opportunities Programme, referred to as Oportunidades) is an anti-poverty initiative aimed at indigenous women in a remote mountain area in northern Mexico. Previous evaluations confirmed that indigenous people were participating effectively but it was unclear that the project was succeeding in its objectives of...
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...de-excited by collision with another particle before a photon can be emitted spontaneously. Such low densities cannot be achieved on Earth which is why these lines are not observed in the laboratory. When they are observed astronomically, we can be sure that they have been produced in a region of extremely low density. They are prominent in the spectra of active galaxies...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...de Gruyter. Collinson, D. (1994) ‘Strategies of resistance: Power, knowledge and subjectivity in the workplace’, in J. Jernier, D. Knights and W. Nord. (eds) Resistance and power in organizations. London: Routledge, pp. 25–68. Gagnon, S. and Collinson, D. (2017) ‘Resistance through difference: The co-constitution of dissent and inclusion’, Organization Studies,...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...Maths, Computing, Science and Technology (COLMSCT –), part of the HEFCE-funded Open CETL. The authors would like to express their profound gratitude to the participants in the 2008 trial. We are thankful for the many things learnt in discussion with them, lessons that we have tried to incorporate into this course, and we are also grateful for their agreeing to share...
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Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...de-stress, allows us to catch ourselves before it spirals. The personal resilience of those leading or supporting the diversity and inclusion agenda within your workplace can have a big impact on the success of their leadership. If you want to learn more about resilience at work, investigate the OpenLearn badged open course: Developing career resilience...Week 5: Skills...
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Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...de Telemaque, referring to Mentor as a ‘guide and instructor’ and ‘another father’. McKimm, Jollie and Hatter (2007, p. 2) make a historical link to the Middle Ages, when they explain that mentoring ‘became common practice in the time of the guilds and trade apprenticeships when young people, having acquired technical skills, often benefited from the patronage...
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...de-synchronized in hibernation. Another monoamine, melatonin, is involved in making these adjustments. A hormone rather than a neurotransmitter, melatonin is secreted by the pineal gland on the dorsal side of the brain. Removal of this gland can cause disturbances in both the ‘clock’ and the ‘calendar’ settings of mammals. Melatonin travels both to the pre-optic...
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...de facto law for business’ (KPMG, 2011, p. 2), it still remains a voluntary approach...Environmental management and organisations: 15.1.2 Drivers - Whilst organisations usually have a choice, adopting and maintaining a voluntary code or similar standard may be in an organisation’s interest – perhaps to demonstrate good and responsible practices. In the case of...