Health, Sports & Psychology
Junk Food Marketing To Children Online
UK rules that ban marketing of junk foods to children and young people are weak. Why is this a problem?
Health, Sports & Psychology
Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital
...Children’s Hospital The walk-through involved two bereaved parents (recruited by the hospital) and two experienced Walking the Walk leaders. When in clinical areas, they were joined by two senior clinicians (Nurse specialist from the Child Death Review Team and Paediatric Palliative Care Consultant). As they walked from the ‘front door’ throughout hospital spaces,...
Science, Maths & Technology
Why is scientific research part of emergency response?
...researcher along might be a waste of resource. But Medicins Sans Frontières are finding research is a key part of response. Anita Makri explains why...[Médecins Sans Frontières ebola treament centre in Maghuraka, Sierra Leone, 2014] An MSF treatment centre in Sierra Leonne, during the 2014 ebola crisis You have a mission to help people caught up in an emergency –...
Education & Development
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
...researching situations that can arise when working in education and working with children and young people will be examined. You will explore distinct and influential ways in which people think about and study the complexities around working with children and young people, the practices involved in learning and teaching and the structures that support and impact on them....
Level 3: Advanced
10 hrs
Education & Development
Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
...children, adults with mental health problems), the research methods you will use, and the types of data you will collect. You will need to decide how to recruit your participants so you do not inappropriately exclude anyone. Consider what methods may be necessary to facilitate their voice and how you can obtain their consent to taking part or ensure that consent is...
Society, Politics & Law
Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
...researchers linked to the Centre of Citizenship, Identities and Governance – CCIG. These reflections about our ways of generating knowledge about the social world share the belief that what we know and how we know are intimately linked. And as a result of exploring how we know, we also learn what we don’t know. The movements we make to know, in processual mode,...
Society, Politics & Law
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
...research for policy and advocacy work, is for you. Whether you are employed as a policy officer or carrying out voluntary work, this course will explain how to present clear and effective evidence to support your proposals. It will explain how to design, carry out and present research to support your policy project...How can you effectively influence decision makers to...
History & The Arts
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
...research in an increasingly digital world. It introduces the methods of digital humanities and explains how research methods in the humanities can be combined with digital media and technologies. After completing the course, you will be able to analyse, understand and use digital content, to assess information technologies critically, and to integrate digitally-driven...