Expand readme and remove UCL-specific links

[K-Meech]

In preparation for submitting this to the Carpentries incubator, I've made some minor changes:

• Expanded the readme with information about the lesson, and acknowledgement of original funding (the acknowledgements paragraph was provided by Dave Cash)
• Updated the carpentries life cycle stage to beta as recommended by Toby Hodges (one of the Carpentries team)
• As we want to keep this general to use at any institution I:
  • Removed a link to UCL-internal courses
  • Moved the UCL bioimage interest group lower in the list of talks / seminars, and added a link to the GloBIAS seminar series. The UCL seminars are still available to all for online attendance - so still good for it to be in this list.

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[thompson318]

Looks good to me. Makes sense, links work.