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Crime scene officer
Society, Politics & Law

Crime scene officer

Put yourself in a crime scene officer's shoes and try to solve a suspected murder when time and resources are tight. Can you link the suspects to the forensic evidence? ...[Crime Scene Officer interactive image] Select the image above to investigate the interactive crime scene.
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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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Structural Integrity: Silver Bridge
Science, Maths & Technology

Structural Integrity: Silver Bridge

...forensic investigation which led to the creation of the National Bridge Inspection Standards to inspect the 1 million bridges of the USA. This material forms part of the course T357, Structural integrity: designing against failure... Structural Integrity: Silver Bridge A short introduction to this album. The Silver Bridge Disaster How the Silver Bridge and the...
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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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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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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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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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