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Nanoparticle Catalysis: Size Matters (2015)

Subject

Chemistry; Environmental science

Video podcast. Hanif Mahadi, Researcher in Edman Tsang’s group, explains how nanoparticle catalysts help use fossil fuels more efficiently and develop cleaner alternative sources of energy. [4 minutes].

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Can we Have Green Equality? (2012)

aka: Is Green Equality Possible? Reconciling Planet, People and Prosperity

Subject

Environmental science

Kate Raworth, Senior Researcher at Oxfam Great Britain explores the question of what it would take to achieve global ‘green growth’ with equity.

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Old Hands: British Labour Camps 1929-1939 (1999)

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 35 minutes), £25.00

Exposes the history of the remote labour camps for the unemployed which were set up and run by successive British governments between 1929 and 1939. David Colledge, a Leeds social historian, acts as the...

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London Perambulator, The (2009)

Director

John Rogers (4)

Subject

Geography; Social Studies

John Rogers’ film looks at the city we deny and the future city that awaits us. Leading London writers and cultural commentators Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Russell Brand explore the importance of the...

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Emergence of E-Textiles (2016)

Subject

Technology

Can we imagine a piece of fabric that can be tapped or swiped just like you would a touch screen? Or if sensors woven into the cover of your chair told you when you were slouching? Electronic textiles are...

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Acceptable Levels (1984)

Director

John Davies

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a...

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Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)

Director

Jeremy Bristow

Subject

Agriculture; Environmental science; Geography

Parts of China’s Loess Plateau, the highland area spanning some 640,000 square km in the north of the country, faced environmental ruin as over-farming took its toll on the ecosystem. In this film...

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Web2.0, Ipr & You (2008)

Subject

Education; Law; Technology

A short animation produced as part of the JISC Web2Rights project that ran from 2007-2009. It highlights the importance for higher education institutions off considering IPR in their use and re-use of...

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Automation, Ai and New Industrial Strategies (2018)

Subject

Economics; Technology

Three online lectures about the digital transition we are currently living through and how it is different from previous technological transitions. The lectures are aimed primarily to those with a strong...

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Viral Outbreak: The Science of Emerging Disease (2010)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 240 minutes), free

A series of four lectures in the 2010 Holiday Lectures series: Lecture 1 - Dengue Fever: Breaking Epidemic Cycles by Eva Harris; Lecture 2:- The Virus Hunter’s Toolkit by Joseph L. DeRisi,; Lecture 3 -...

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