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Get Set for a Summer of Sport... 🎾🥅👟🚴♀️
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Exploring sport coaching and psychology
This free course investigates how scientific and management ideas contribute to success while also taking you on a journey through unique sporting case studies and insights that will change how you view and study sport. You will consider how the mind, the body, the environment and training techniques all contribute to optimum fitness.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Sport and Fitness Hub
Welcome to the Sport and Fitness Hub. Enjoy exploring our range of free courses, articles and interactives to exercise your body and mind.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Women in sport
Ever thought about sports and wondered, but what about for a woman? These articles cover specific topics concerning women in sport, considering questions such as, what if Eliod Kipchoge was a woman? Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport? What about motherhood, what are the challenges in returning to sport or starting up a new sport?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Medal Quest: Can you guide a promising young athlete to championship success?
Can you help a talented child athlete make it all the way to the Olympic finals based on the choices you make for them at key stages in their development? Try our game and find out.
As well as a Summer of Politics! 🗳️
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Society, Politics & Law
Introduction to making political and social change
Written in a moment of multiple crises – environmental, economic, political, social and health-related – ‘An Introduction to making political and social change’ gives you a grounding in some of the key citizenship skills and information you will need to intervene in the world as it changes around you. This free course explores how you can make ...
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How do you become British Prime Minister?
Ever fancied being Prime Minister and running the country? Dr Richard Heffernan has some advice on the mechanics of the political system.
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Social psychology and politics
Why are social psychologists interested in politics, and how can they help us understand things like social movements, protest and activism? This free course, Social psychology and politics, moves away from a state-centric study of politics and, using insights from social psychology, explores the role of identity, personality and culture for ...
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Science, Maths & Technology
Out for the count: the mathematics of voting systems
Voters, voters, in the poll, which is the fairest system of all?
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