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Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...careful control of tasks. Historically, this was referred to as ‘scientific management’ because it was felt that the manager's role was like that of a scientist, to control, or at least intervene in, processes in order to change them. For the ‘scientific’ manager, the desired change in these processes was an improvement in efficiency in the way in which they...
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...cared to stare into a shop window could examine and criticise his portrait extremely repulsive to him. I remember that this shyness of his was the only occasion of anything approaching a quarrel between us. I had an idle trick of drawing caricatures when I was a child, and one day when he was writing some letters I began to make a picture of him on the back of an...
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...care about what happens to them? You will discover some of the techniques that Hardy uses to achieve an illusion of real people and their relationships in a real world. Through analysing narrative you will think about who the narrator is, and the importance of the narrative point of view in telling the story, as well as understanding how characterisation, the use of...
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...careful because this is specific to London but at the same time there are issues around migration that I can connect to bigger debates about migration on the global scene. I think my using ‘problem’ in this context is not the more prosaic use of ‘problem’, I think. I think it’s almost more a technical word and I think I also used the word ‘puzzle’ which is...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...adults in particular struggling to redefine their experiences of schooling. One major factor in this struggle towards redefinition has been the shift towards a social model of disability. In their seminal research, Rieser and Mason described a model as ‘not necessarily the truth as borne out by scientific fact, just an idea that helps us to make sense of information’...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...careful with them. STUART: Chris, really careful, the first two laps, extreme care. I know what's happened. Because Jonathan's worried about each cycle you were waiting to put the next set of mediums in. But what happens is, if you wait, you get fucked. Fuck him. I know what I'm talking about. Always have a set of hot tyres in. JONATHAN: OK, Chris how are you feeling? Is...
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...care Her study explores students’ experiences of synchronous online tuition within the context of teaching health and social care in a large UK-based distance learning university. In this interview, Dr Fiona Audrey-Smith begins by asking Dr Chandler about the changes she experienced as a result of her professional doctorate journey. Kathy recounts an immediate and...
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...Care. Welcome. MATHIJS LUCASSEN Thank you. HELEN KING It's really good to have you here, because what we want to talk about today is health. What do we mean by health? How has that changed over time? And also we want to have a little look at a particular disease, which was known in the ancient world and which I don't think is known today-- lovesickness. So that's quite a...