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The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done

...working with broadcasters to explicitly work socially positive narratives into productions. But what does sitting passively watching adults being goaded into interpersonal strife, denigration and dysregulated emotional outbursts do for the million or more viewers? Can we not expect at least some degree of desensitisation? And what about the effects on children and young...
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Article 10 mins
What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?
Society, Politics & Law

What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?

...work in the emergency services display? This article looks at the concept of trauma informed practice. ...For police officers and other emergency service workers, being trauma informed (TI) in their professional practice ensures the best outcomes from interactions with both members of the public and colleagues. But what does being TI in practice mean? This article will...
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Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...work context. Finally, you will obtain hands on experience in collecting and using secondary sources of information in the context of researching and making this organisational change...This free course explores how to use data to inform a change you would like to make within your business or organisational context. It looks at the type of evidence you can gather to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...social factors, such as poor diet and long working hours, which were also associated with death in childbirth. Their chosen solution to these problems was to encourage women to give birth in hospital, in sterile conditions and with medical staff on hand. The proportion of births taking place in hospitals began to rise at this time – from 15% in 1927 to 24% in 1933. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Could volunteering be bad for our health?
Society, Politics & Law

Could volunteering be bad for our health?

...work like Arnstein’s ‘ladder of participation’ and the World Health Organisation’s Alma Ata declaration, in which they declared that health systems should create opportunities for citizens to help shape decision about health-care, and that citizens should take them up. Volunteering suffers from similar definitional uncertainty but one excellent overview places it...
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Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...social and environmental challenges. [Empathy tree memory box] Empathy Tree: a memory box (left) and bio-sensing jewellery (right). Photo by Bart van Overbeeke. The participants collaborated on a series of ‘prototypes’ to give a material shape to particular questions about the future. A prototype refers to an early version of an artefact that enables an examination of...
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A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...social and economic change in both Ireland and the United States, Irish Catholic migrants to America began to outnumber their Protestant counterparts by the early 1830s...Social and economic changes in both Ireland and the United States can be used to explain shifting patterns of Irish emigration in the nineteenth century. By the early 1830s, Irish Catholic migrants to...
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Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...work by a near contemporary of both these artists on November 10 2015—the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—was met with an air of such disinterest (The Guardian newspaper excepted). [Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley] There were brief mentions and some excerpts were read out on BBC Radio 4, but no welcoming comments appeared from government ministers...
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