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Health, Sports & Psychology
Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
Natural spaces are beneficial to health and wellbeing and can help people to age well but there are a number of barriers to these in our society. This article explores these inequalities and what's being done to address them.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?
How does a person’s ethnicity and the perspectives of different cultures affect the identification of neurological difference? Mel Green explores in this article on neurodiversity.
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Education & Development
Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world
Will an object float or sink? Use this easy activity to explore your child's understanding of the physical world.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Ymdopi ag Iselder
Mae'r erthygl hon yn trin a thrafod beth sy'n gallu digwydd pan mae pobl yn cael eu gorlethu gan deimladau o ofn a thristwch sydd mor ddwys nad ydyn nhw’n gallu mynd ymlaen â’u bywyd bob dydd. Ynddi mae tri o bobl sydd wedi bod yn ddigon dewr i herio’r stigma posib o fod yn agored am eu hargyfwng a’u defnydd o wasanaethau iechyd meddwl yn rhoi ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
This free course, Understanding service improvement in healthcare, will help you to understand what people mean by the terms ‘service’ and ‘improvement’ in relation to healthcare. The course will help you to think about how those involved in healthcare, whether as practitioners or service users, can monitor the progress of any initiative to ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, and the British Military Nursing Services
Operation Overlord, the invasion of Europe known as D-Day, began on 6 June 1944. 12,000 British military nurses served during World War II, many of these during the aftermath of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. In this article, explore what it was like to be a nurse at this time.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
World Toilet Day
Toilets save lives. We've compiled some resources to help raise awareness for the 3.6 billion people who do not have access to toilets and proper sanitation.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?
By adopting the approach used in the Netherlands, the NHS could cut costs but maintain quality, suggests Dr Elizabeth Cotton.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete
The Games of the Tokyo Olympics have been played in empty stadiums and venues, without fans and family members. Jessica Pinchbeck looks at the importance of Adam Peaty's family to his success.
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Money & Business
Understanding and managing risk
This free course, Understanding and managing risk, provides an introduction to financial risk management. The processes of risk identification, risk measurement and risk management are explored. The course then goes on to examine reputational risk and operational risk. It concludes with an examination of the subject of behavioural finance and ...
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The devil is in the (complex) detail
A look at the implications of negotiating Brexit, in the fourth article from Volker Patent’s series on the psychology of Brexit.
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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 ...