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Migration 2018: What's currently happening?
Society, Politics & Law

Migration 2018: What's currently happening?

...de Gata, Almería. According to their testimonies, 47 people were on the boat when they departed from Morocco. A merchant vessel retrieved one body in the Alboran sea on Sunday evening; therefore, an estimated 42 people remain missing and are presumed dead. IOM Greece’s Antigoni Avgeropoulou reported Monday that over five days (13-17 June) the Hellenic Coast Guard...
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Article 5 mins
Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...De) Constructing Paula Radcliffe: Exploring media representations of elite running, pregnancy and motherhood through cultural sport psychology’, Psychology of sport and exercise, 13(6), pp. 820-829. McGannon, K. R. and Schinke, R. J. (2013) ‘“My first choice is to work out at work; then i don’t feel bad about my kids”: A discursive psychological analysis of...
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Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport

...de Motocyclisme (FIM) banned women from competing, declaring it an unsuitable activity for women. One reporter summed up the misogynistic sentiment of the time: ‘Women, the weaker sex, are muscling in on man’s domain, practically no sport is sacred’. See also: Isle of Man TT: Meet the thrill seeking women who dare and A concise history of the Isle of Man TT: stories...
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Article 10 mins
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...class, your gender, where you were born, your family income and wealth, but also the wider context such as the political stability of your country or the laws and rights in existence within your society. You may consider that science and technology made it a very safe time for you to be born, perhaps that your parent(s) had a stable job in a strong economy, perhaps that...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...de novo, possibly from a compound in the literature. Increasingly, computer-based molecular graphics systems are being used in this process to provide suitable leads, by consideration of the shape and electronic properties of the receptor or enzyme involved, and so designing compounds from first principles. The development of doxazosin, as described in the video, can be...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...class discontents became apparent around a range of political issues: fuel prices, student loans, blood sports and the invasion of Iraq. Yet MMR provided a focus for protest that was both intensely personal and highly political … The controversy over immunisation allowed scope for individual initiative, at least in the form of a gesture of defiance, which was generally...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...class and socio-economic structures in society. We will explore the ways in which taken-for-granted categories are socially constructed (for example, teachers’ assumptions about different types of learners) later in the course. After you have read the article, see what you can find out about Connell’s 1987 book (see the reference list) and the stance it takes in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...variables (such as age, strength, flexibility, and previous injury) and psychological variables (such as self-concept and personality) (Brewer and Redmond, 2017). Extrinsic risk factors are those external to the individual and can include sport-related variables (such as type of sport, rules, opponent/team mate behaviour), equipment and weather conditions (Brewer and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs