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Society, Politics & Law
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Nicole McLean made railway history when at just 21 she became the youngest person to qualify as a train driver. She shares the story of her impressive achievement with Lois Nicolson.
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Society, Politics & Law
Introducing key global development challenges
Global development is at a critical turning point. This course introduces ‘challenges’ as a spur to thinking critically and creatively about development’s future on a global scale. You will identify how the four key challenges of conflict, governance, justice, and transformation cut-across all areas of global development. These touch upon all ...
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Society, Politics & Law
Women and the fight to reclaim higher education
Maureen McBride speaks to four female UCU activists at the Glasgow branch on the wave of disputes to have gripped higher education across Scotland and the rest of the UK in the 2020s.
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Society, Politics & Law
Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
The story of women workers at Rolls-Royce and their fight for equal pay during the 1950s. Lynn Rooney reveals another example of history's failure to recognise and honour brave, tenacious women who refused to accept they were not equal to men.
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History & The Arts
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
Robert Clive, a general of the East India Company, was despised by his contemporaries – so why was a statue of him erected outside the foreign office by the Edwardians years later?
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Society, Politics & Law
Working mothers in Scotland's railways
Nicola Parker spoke to three working mothers in the Scottish railway industry, including her mum, to find out what has changed since her mum joined the industry.
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Society, Politics & Law
Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute
Gerry Mooney's interview with Lyn-Marie O'Hara examines the background to the pay dispute, her role in the campaign and her involvment in trade unionism.
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Society, Politics & Law
How juror bias can be tackled to ensure fairer trials
Juror decision-making - how individual jurors evaluate information and examines their pre-trial biases and the cognitive mechanisms behind the verdicts they reach.
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Society, Politics & Law
Jurors are subject to all kinds of biases when it comes to deciding on a trial
From CSI to Law and Order, Line of Duty and Midsomer Murders, there is huge public fascination with crime and the criminal justice system. But how much do jurors get it wrong?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
CSI: Current research into the impact of bias on crime scene forensics is limited – but psychology can help
Recent research suggests that the reality of forensic analysis is that it can be subjective and fallible.
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Society, Politics & Law
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
This course will present an overview of the policy and law that relates to social work with people involved in the asylum and immigration system and will introduce you to the ways in which social work practitioners can support people with insecure immigration status, refugees and asylum seekers more effectively. It will highlight some of the ...
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Society, Politics & Law
Studying social work law
This set of four free courses introduces the role of social work and explores how the law influences social work practice. You will learn the role of social workers in the UK and how the profession is regulated across the four nations. The courses also examine how the law is applied by social workers in their practice with the people they support.