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Social and political sciences brings together the University’s world-leading expertise in the research and teaching of central & east European studies, economic & social history, politics, sociology, anthropology & applied social sciences and urban studies.
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This unit will enable you to understand how arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences. Using extracts from a Radio 4 broadcast you will look at the different viewpoints that are taken by the participants and analyse how the different arguments are being put together. This study unit is just one of many that can be found on LearningSpace, part of OpenLearn, a collection of open educational resources from The Open University. Published in ePub 2.0.1 format, some feature such as ...
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This conference took place in the Royal Irish Academy on May 7 2013. The conference sought to strengthen the profile and advance the research agenda of the Humanities and qualitative Social Sciences within the framework of Horizon 2020. The central objective of this event was to give prominence to previously neglected aspects of the Humanities and Social Sciences as the means of identifying 'alternative competences' and demonstrating their central value with regard to cultural, social and ec ...
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The Certificate in Hospitality and Hotel Management offered by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is a comprehensive program designed to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed in the hospitality industry. The course covers a wide range of topics, including hotel operations, food and beverage management, custom…
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Are you interested in pursuing a career as a lab technician? At TISS School of Vocational Education, we offer a comprehensive Lab Technician Course that provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in this field. Our course curriculum is designed to equip students with practical skills in laboratory techniques, sample collec…
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is a highly renowned institution that has been dedicated to imparting quality education in the field of social sciences since 1936. In recent years, TISS has expanded its scope to include courses in the medical field as well. The institute offers a variety of medical courses after 12th, such as Bachelor of S…
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BVoc programme equips students with the necessary skills to succeed in their chosen profession, providing them with a competitive edge in the job market. This programme also offers opportunities for students to pursue further studies or to start their own businesses. Overall, the bvoc courses is an excellent choice for students who want to develop …
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Post Graduate Diploma in Banking and Finance program offered by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is a comprehensive course that aims to equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge required for a successful career in the banking and finance industry. The program is designed to cover various areas such as banking operations, fi…
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TISS offers a Diploma in Agriculture that provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the agricultural sector from a social science perspective. The programme covers various topics such as agronomy, soil science, plant breeding, genetics, and agricultural economics. Students will also learn about the social, political, and environmental…
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) located in Mumbai, India. It offers various vocational courses in agriculture in collaboration with industry partners to provide skill-based education to students. The courses offered by SVE are designed to cater to the needs of various industries and equip students with the necessary skills to enter the wor…
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“My grandchildren are so busy with all their extra classes that I seem to spend most our time together acting as a taxi service.” “When the children come to stay I’m constantly worried about keeping them safe.” “ I’d love to have fun with them, but my daughter expects me to supervise their homework and test them on their spelling.” Are today’s gran…
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What are grandmothers for? That’s what Sally Feldman wondered when she first learned that her daughter was pregnant. As a former editor of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour she was familiar with so many aspects of female experiences. But faced with the prospect of a grandchild, she realised she was clueless. So now she’s writing a book of advice for new g…
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With Covid rates remaining stubbornly high and a huge pent-up demand for hospital care, the UK’s National Health Service faces a tough winter. Intensive care wards are the canary in the mine, reports Rachael Jolley. Mark Toshner: We can make beds, but what we can’t make are specialised staff to run those beds. The accident and emergency department …
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It’s not about individual countries. It’s not about individual regions. It’s not even about blocks. This doesn’t work unless we vaccinate everybody. But is geopolitics getting in the way of good public health policy as we strive to overcome COVID-19? In this podcast, Rachael Jolley, former editor-in-chief of Index on Censorship and research fellow …
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The death of writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi has just been announced. In 2011 Tess Woodcraft interviewed her at a conference organised by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Right Organisation for Pod Academy. We reproduce it here. Typically, and at 80 years old, she had stopped off at the Occupy encampment around St Paul’s Cathedral on her way fr…
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Journalism has sometimes been a dangerous profession during the pandemic, but there has been real innovation, too. In this, the third part of our series on Journalism in the Pandemic, Rachael Jolley, former editor-in-chief of Index on Censorship and research fellow at the Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of Sheffield considers how …
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Authoritarian restrictions on the press, attacks on journalists in the streets and more accusations of ‘fake news’ – it’s like a war zone out there. Rachael Jolley looks at the dangers of reporting during the Covid -19 pandemic. Jolley (@londoninsider) has developed a series of podcasts for Pod Academy on News in the Pandemic, this is the second in…
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Local newspapers have been in decline for years, but the decline has been massively exacerbated by the Covid pandemic. Can a new type of hyper-local journalism be the answer for local news and local democracy? And how will it be funded? Rachael Jolley (@londoninsider), research fellow @sheffjournalism and former Editor-in-Chief of Index on Censorsh…
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Episode 30 - In this episode (which is the first in a three-part series), I'm joined by Susan Caldis (@SusanCaldis) who is discussing her educational tour of Singapore as part of the Outstanding Educator in Residence program, and the importance of Asian studies.Please subscribe and leave a review!@MrMCimino…
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A Scottish Laird becomes Lord of the Bedchamber in the Abyssinian/Ethiopian court and finds the source of the Nile. Like many of his wealthy contemporaries in the 18th and 19th centuries, Lord James Bruce of Kinnaird made the grand tour of Europe (see the companion blog to this podcast). Unlike many of them he also ventured further afield. For thre…
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What does it mean to be a ‘good man’? With so much talk about toxic masculinity, there is, perhaps. a pre-supposition that there is no good masculinity. This lecture by Dr Nina Power, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University, is based on her forthcoming book, What do Men Want? It is part of the IF Project‘s 2019 lecture series, Thinki…
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This lecture on Left populism is part of the IF Project’s lecture series, Thinking between the Lines: Truth, Lies and Fiction in an age of populism. Dr Marina Prentoulis, Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at University of East Anglia and a member of Syriza, explores the differences between Lef…
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“No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other, and no one, as far as I. know, has ever counted truthfulness among the political virtues. Lies have always been regarded as necessary and justifiable tools not only of the politician’s or the demagogue’s but also of the statesman’s trade. Why is that so? And w…
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Who is allowed to make things up? What does fiction writing have to do with life? Is a novel a document? This is the second lecture in the If Project series, Thinking Between the Lines: truth, lies and fiction in an age of populism. Dr Katie da Cunha Lewin (@kdc_lewin) explores what it means to ‘make things up’ in literature, especially looking at …
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“We need to get away from the idea that knowledge, expertise and truth are obvious and given.” This first lecture in the IF Project lecture series 2019, Thinking Between the Lines: Truth, lies and fiction in an age of populism is given by Professor Will Davies of Goldsmith’s, University of London. Professor Davies’s powerpoint can be found here. Wh…
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Episode 20 - In this episode, I'm joined by Martin Plüss (@plu) and Lee Hancock (@ld_hancock) in a TeachMeet-style talk on Geography.Martin will be talking about strategies to bring local geography into the classroom, and Lee will be talking about his passion for geography, technology integration, and PBL in the geography classroom. Please subscrib…
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Pat Thane, Research Professor at King’s College, London and Professor Emerita, University of London, explores the social and political history of Britain over the past 100+ years with Pod Academy’s Lee Millam, as they discuss her latest book, Divided Kingdom. This podcast is a tour de force as Professor Thane takes us from the founding of the Labou…
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Episode 11 - In this very special episode, I'm joined by Pete Whiting (@Mr_van_W), Shawtima Rakovsky(@ShawtimaSmiles), and Steven Kolber (@steven_kolber) in a crossover between Teachers Talking Teaching and Oh, The Humanities! (and Social Sciences). We talk about all of the happenings from RESCON Australia 2018, flipped learning, and everything els…
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