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Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...concerned with many other areas besides opinion polls. Statistics is used wherever there is quantitative information to be dealt with. Medicine and biomedical science, economics, government, education, psychology, finance, environment, and forensic science are just some of the many areas of twenty-first century life in which statistics and statisticians play a key role....
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How can the Hajj be made safer?
History & The Arts

How can the Hajj be made safer?

...psychology of crowds help to make future pilgrimages safer for everyone?...The crowd crush at the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia has claimed the lives of more than 700 people and injured at least 850 more. Sadly this is not the first such tragedy to affect the event. The Hajj attracts millions of pilgrims from across the world every year and involves several...
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What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

Psychological flexibility is a Swiss army knife in uncertain times..."If you only have a hammer all your problems look like nails." This quote, also known as ‘The Law of the instrument’ highlights an essential aspect of problem-solving. If there are insufficient tools available to solve problems, this shapes how problems are perceived and how much flexibility there is...
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My career goal: Health and science
Health, Sports & Psychology

My career goal: Health and science

...forensics, and working for the NHS...An introduction to roles in healthcare science Transcript How does the NHS work? Where can you find jobs? These questions are explored in this short animated guide from the King's Fund: Transcript Furthermore this NHS site has an overview of the range of careers available in health and science: https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/ icould...
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Women in sport: insights from gold medallists
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: insights from gold medallists

...psychological impact of the various injuries she has experienced during her career. Transcript In this video, 2016 Olympic hockey champion Helen Richardson-Walsh talks about the psychological strategies she used to aid her recovery from injury. Transcript 2016 Olympic hockey gold medallist Alex Danson discusses the various influences on her sporting career and considers...
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Charity Reed
Education & Development

Charity Reed

...so I recommended it to her, and to a customer at work and she's already enrolled in a forensics BSc on the back of that!’ ‘I had a great chat with my 73-year-old mum recently about how OpenLearn works. She has a very keen mind and loves to learn, so I recommended it to her, and to a customer at work and she's already enrolled in a forensics BSc on the back of that!’...
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Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...forensic criminologists may well have emerged from schools of psychology. The boundaries would appear to be forming and re-forming over time. A second difficulty is that disciplines may also contain ‘factions’ with contradictory ontological stances. In Sociology, for instance, positivists and interpretivists share a field of study and engage in the same specific field...
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Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...Psychological Society (BPS). The seminars explore how citizenship is reconfigured in the era of Brexit using insights from social psychology and other social sciences. In a previous contribution to the MiM blog, I considered the value of developing a social psychology of citizenship. In that post, I suggested that the specific contribution of social psychology is to...
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