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Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...writing, I will tend to use another unusual term in writing about interviews. A respondent is a person who is asked questions and whose answers are considered by an inquirer. It is significant that I have used this term rather than, say, informant or interviewee. The significance will become more apparent as we explore the different types of interviews and conversations...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...write. What helped me? Daily journaling helped me off load during Alan’s illness. Turning my notes into a book helped me navigate my way through grief. I was also lucky enough to have bereavement support from Marie Curie counsellors and the charity Cruse. I carried on writing in my journal after Alan died, but in the form of letters to him. To help me deal with his...
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Article 5 mins
Life on the wall: Vindolanda
History & The Arts

Life on the wall: Vindolanda

...writing tablets provide brilliant shafts of light on aspects of daily life than would otherwise remain entirely unknown. The names of hundreds of individuals have appeared, ranging from senior commanding officers to private soldiers, from officers’ wives to personal slaves, and from the Governor of Britain’s groom to baths orderlies, brewers, pig keepers, pharmacists...
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Article 10 mins
Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...write it down in this journal. Noticing this often also stops it! Reflecting on what is in the journal may help you recognise the most common self-limiting beliefs to work on. The Rubber Band Technique. This method can feel a bit self-conscious at first but is one of the quickest ways to change thinking. Wear a rubber band around your wrist: tight enough to stay on and...
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Article 10 mins
Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...write a sentence or paragraph that describes your own definition of mentoring. Comment Mentors come in all shapes and sizes. The relationship might be deliberately set up or develop organically. Usually, a mentor will have more experience than you in a relevant area, whether that’s your occupation, the organisation you work within or even a group or committee that...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...Write down any words or images you associate with ‘law’. Figures 2 and 3 are there to help you, but do not feel constrained by them, and try to focus on what law means to you personally. Think about where you have come across the law, whether in the media, film, drama, study or personal experience. Once you have compiled a list, see if you can separate your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...Writing for The Conversation, Mark Beeson weighs the corrosive effects of repeated incidents across France: France occupies a unique place in the history of Western civilisation in particular and “civilised” values more generally. There’s a lot to be said for secular states, as recent events remind us. Putting the priests and the mullahs in their place and throwing...
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Article 30 mins
Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...Writing in The Times, Gavin Bell sounded a warning about what might follow from a winter of discontent in Northern Ireland: "The militant 'loyalists' of Ulster are emerging from a winter of discontent and preparing for a summer of murderous political violence." 1987 In Spain, a ban on political demonstrations attempted to keep a lid on simmering social tensions. Would it...
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Article 5 mins