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When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs
Education & Development

When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs

...social responsibility into conflict: the right of communities not to be confronted with language which has historically been used to demean and oppress them; and the right of people with neurological conditions to participate in public life without stigma. From a sociolinguistic perspective, words take their meaning from how they’re used in context. Slurs, for example,...
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Article 5 mins
Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...social media platforms appears divided, with many influencers sharing their exercise and restrictive eating behaviours and others showing how they indulge in food. A current trend that populates social media is ‘What I eat in a day’. Again, social media appears divided with some showing very restrictive eating behaviours whilst others showing how they indulge in foods...
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Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...socially, economically and culturally. www.acic.org.uk WALES BAWSO BAWSO is an all-Wales, Welsh Government-Accredited Support Provider, delivering specialist services to people from Black and Ethnic Minority backgrounds who are affected by domestic abuse and other forms of abuse. For all general enquiries, Email: info@bawso.org.uk, or contact the 24-hour helpline:...
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Video 10 mins
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...Social Care...Exploring family health: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how ‘health intervention’ is targeted to change family eating habits understand the rise in obesity and how it can be linked to family lifestyles understand how families care for and cope with illness interpret information in graphical form and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...social arrangements in a similar way. They also argue that the UK could now relinquish its membership without losing any of the advantages of the Single Market. The EU would damage its own living standards, as well as ours, if it put up new barriers against a departing member state, especially its second largest. By joining the European Economic Area (EEA), non-members...
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...social order (Blagg, 2008). The UK In the UK, figures available from the Ministry of Justice for 2008/09 show that within the criminal justice system ‘substantial differences continue to exist in the experiences of people from BME groups compared with people from a White background’. It is worth looking at some examples taken from the report in a little more detail:...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...social memory. We use objects of heritage (artefacts, buildings, sites, landscapes) alongside practices of heritage (languages, music, community commemorations, conservation and preservation of objects or memories from the past) to shape our ideas about our past, present and future. Another way of thinking about this distinction between objects of heritage and practices...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...social groups that gather to enjoy a shared interest, but what would need to change in order for them to become a team? Look at one definition of team from Katzenbach and Smith (1993): A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs