Lecture for Year 10 and 11 students

This lecture brings together students interested in chemistry to explore the science of colloids and, in particular, polymer colloids. Professor Stefan A. F. Bon will explain what these materials are, how they are made, and why they matter in real-world applications. The talk looks at polymer latexes - tiny polymer particles dispersed in water - and introduces the emulsion polymerisation process used to make them. It also covers how these particles behave in water, how they move, and how scientists prevent them from clumping together. The lecture then connects this chemistry to practical uses such as coatings, glove making, paper manufacturing, and adhesives. The event is designed to be accessible to chemistry students from GCSE through A level and university, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary chemistry, chemical engineering, and sustainability challenges. It offers a chance to hear from a researcher working at the cutting edge of polymer and colloid science.

This is a curriculum-linked video lecture from MASSOLIT presented by Dr Regine May (University of Leeds) as part of a short course on Petronius' Satyrica. The lecture introduces Petronius and his possible identification with Petronius Arbiter, discusses Tacitus' portrayal of Petronius, and outlines the circumstances of his death following the Pisonian conspiracy. The lecture situates the Satyrica as a unique, fragmentary Latin novel characterised by parody and satire and explores Petronius' playful engagement with high literature, especially Virgil’s Aeneid. Dr May contrasts the epic hero Aeneas with the comic anti-hero Encolpius and explains how these literary interactions shape the novel's tone and meaning. This video is produced for GCSE, A-Level and IB audiences and forms one of a sequence of lectures in the Petronius: Satyrica course, which examines characters (Encolpius, Trimalchio, Habinnas), themes (food and death), and individual episodes such as the Widow of Ephesus and the rivalry over Giton.

This is the first lecture in a five-part MASSOLIT course on Tacitus' Agricola, delivered by Dr Andy Fear (University of Manchester). The video provides a broad introduction to the Agricola, situating the work as both historical narrative and biography and explaining its aims and structure. The lecture is part of MASSOLIT's series of high-quality, curriculum-linked video lectures produced for GCSE, A Level and IB students. The lecture examines the Agricola's purpose of preserving Agricola's reputation, its combination of biography, history, ethnography and military narrative, and Agricola's portrayal as an exemplary governor, soldier and public servant. It also discusses the political background of Domitian's tyranny and Tacitus' argument about virtue and dignified conduct under oppression. The session is intended for secondary-school students studying classical texts or British/ancient history and for teachers seeking curriculum-linked materials.

Education in Action's "History in Action: Russia and Revolution" is a study day aimed at A-level and IB students, and enthusiastic Year 11 students preparing for Edexcel, AQA and OCR specifications. The programme concentrates on 20th-century Russian history, covering 1894-1964 from the end of Romanov rule and the Revolutions through Lenin’s government to the Stalin and Khrushchev eras. World-class historians will deliver stimulating talks (including Sir Antony Beevor and Professor Daniel Beer) and there will be a lunchtime examination session offering first-hand guidance and exam technique. Useful handouts with key information, suggested further reading and examination advice will be provided, and there will be opportunities for questions throughout the day. The event is delivered in person and is designed to inform, inspire and support students' exam preparation and deeper understanding of modern Russian history.

This video lecture, presented by Dr Simon Usherwood (University of Surrey) as part of the MASSOLIT course "The UK and the European Union", examines the creation of the institutional foundations of the European Union after the Second World War. It focuses on the political, economic and international factors that opened a window for European integration, including post-war reconstruction, the desire for enduring peace, and the Cold War context.

The module situates the EU's formation within three converging impulses and introduces analytical frameworks useful for understanding the EU's structure, such as intergovernmentalism and supranationalism. The wider course also considers the impact of EU membership on UK political life and the complexities behind Brexit, using historical and institutional perspectives to explain contemporary developments.

This lecture is curriculum-linked and intended for GCSE, A Level and IB students (and their teachers). The content is presented as a high-quality, curriculum-aligned video resource hosted by MASSOLIT; full access requires an account on the MASSOLIT site.

This entry is a curriculum-linked video lecture from MASSOLIT titled "Hobbes's Life and Times," delivered by Prof. Jeffrey Collins (Queen's University, Canada). It forms the first module of the course "Political Ideas - Thomas Hobbes" and introduces Hobbes's biography, education at Oxford, and the intellectual contexts that shaped his thought. The lecture situates Hobbes within Humanism and the "New Science," outlines his mechanistic view of human beings as "matter in motion," and explains how these ideas feed into his major work, Leviathan.

The broader course moves from historical context (the English Civil War) to close readings of Leviathan, Hobbes's account of the social contract, the nature and powers of the sovereign, and themes of liberty and disorder, concluding with Hobbes's influence on later political thought. The resource is aimed at secondary students (GCSE, A Level) and IB learners and is accessible via the MASSOLIT platform; to view the full course you must sign up or log in to MASSOLIT.

This is a curriculum-linked video lecture titled "The US in 1783", delivered by Prof. Frank Cogliano of Edinburgh University and produced by MASSOLIT. It is part of the course "US Constitution - Background and Constitutional Convention, 1783-87", which offers an in-depth exploration of the historical background to the US Constitution, focusing on the period from 1783 through the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

The lecture examines the United States at the end of the War of Independence, addressing internal and external problems facing the new post-colonial state, the Declaration of Independence as a guiding document, tensions over popular versus elite political authority, and the challenges of governing a vast territory. The full course comprises five lectures that together cover the Declaration, the Articles of Confederation, the weaknesses that prompted constitutional reform, the key compromises of the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, and the Constitution itself. The materials are aimed at GCSE, A Level and IB students and are designed to be high-quality, curriculum-linked resources for classroom or independent study.

This is a curriculum-linked video lecture from the MASSOLIT course "Rules of Human Rights Law", presented by Professor Conor Gearty of the London School of Economics. The module and course examine the development and legal structure of human rights law, placing the emergence of rights in the post-war context and explaining how the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights operate.

The course covers major theories and philosophical traditions behind human-rights values, contrasts rights with the English legal tradition of liberties, and discusses developments in UK law culminating in the Human Rights Act 1998. Later modules examine common laws relationship with human rights and the evolving nature of judicial power and democracy in this area.

The lectures are produced by MASSOLIT for secondary-level curricula and are explicitly linked to GCSE, A Level and IB study. The resource is delivered as on-demand video content suitable for students and teachers wishing to supplement classroom study of human-rights and constitutional topics.

This is a curriculum-linked video lecture from MASSOLIT titled "Tort Theory" presented by Prof. Sandy Steel (University of Oxford) as part of the "Theory of Tort Law" course. The course examines central themes in tort law across six modules: leading theories of tort liability, the Caparo test for duty of care in negligence, duty of care in relation to pure economic loss, breach of duty, vicarious liability, and remedies including injunctions.

The specific module "Tort Theory" focuses on liability in tort, general principles for paying compensation, and competing theoretical accounts such as the efficiency account and the wrongdoing account. It also explores the nature of ‘‘wrong’’ within tort law and contrasts fault-based liability with strict liability approaches. The content is described as high-quality and curriculum-linked for GCSE, A Level and IB students.

The resource is offered as an educational video lecture intended for secondary school learners preparing for GCSE, A Level or the IB Diploma, and is produced and hosted by MASSOLIT.

This is a curriculum-linked video lecture from MASSOLIT titled 'Introduction to Statistics', delivered by Dr Craig Anderson (University of Glasgow) as part of the Statistics I - AQA GCSE (8300) Foundation Tier course. The mini-lecture introduces what statistics is and how it is used, discusses real-world applications (for example, healthcare, air quality and flooding), and reviews historical examples such as John Snow's 1854 cholera diagram. It explains primary vs secondary data, qualitative vs quantitative data, and the two types of quantitative data (discrete and continuous). The broader course covers Topics S1, S2 and S5 of the AQA GCSE Foundation specification, including populations and sampling, frequency tables and graphs, bar charts, pictograms, pie charts and line charts. The full course video is hosted on MASSOLIT and requires an account to view the complete content.

This on-demand video lecture, produced by MASSOLIT and delivered by Dr Craig Anderson (University of Glasgow), introduces core topics from the AQA GCSE (8300) Higher Tier Statistics syllabus. The content spans Topics S1S3 and S5 and is organised as short mini-lectures. It explains what statistics is, how statistical methods are applied in real-world contexts (for example healthcare, air quality and historical epidemiology), and introduces distinctions between primary and secondary data, quantitative and qualitative data, and discrete versus continuous quantitative variables. Later mini-lectures in the course cover populations and sampling, frequency tables and graphical presentation of data (bar charts, pictograms, pie charts, line charts), cumulative frequency diagrams and histograms. The resource is curriculum-linked and intended to support GCSE students studying the higher tier specification, offering clear explanations and worked examples to supplement classroom learning and revision.