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Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...for adults is an introductory course for carers or those considering a care role in a variety of settings. It addresses a number of key questions on topics including: good communication, mental health awareness, palliative and end-of-life care, positive risk-taking and looking after your self. If you are interested in studying this course, visit the course website here....
What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about
Health, Sports & Psychology

What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about

...skills and experience needed to successfully prepare for new work, or enhance current career journey. See the Signposts for Work article. We used themes in our design thinking to organise these articles under the above headings and additional themes to make the articles groupable on the hub. The themes available are shown below: [Psychology for work theme map] You can...
Women’s sport: insights from a researcher’s journey
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women’s sport: insights from a researcher’s journey

...skill, the intense focus: it’s more than just a race for many women, it can be a fierce battle for empowerment and mastery...But what drives these women to race motorcycles at the highest levels where the stakes are so high? And what inspires others to take it even further, diving into research with a PhD to uncover the untold stories of women in motorcycling? Lorna...
How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...study of politics is often the study of war, conflict, terrorism, and statecraft, of the exceptional rather than the everyday. But political identities and ideologies also take shape in the space of ordinary life, in daily routines and banal interactions. The difficulty is that the ordinary and the everyday often elude study. In a recent paper published in Politics,...
Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...study, personalised books, as opposed to their non-personalised equivalents, did not help children understand the moral of a story or apply it to their own lives. Personalised books could serve therapeutic purposes, but studies are missing and claims about their healing properties are based on authors’ own evaluations.As a new literacy genre, personalised books leave...
How afraid of death are we?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How afraid of death are we?

...studies using questionnaires, we seem more bothered by the prospect of losing our loved ones than we do about dying ourselves. Such studies also show that we worry more about the dying process – the pain and loneliness involved, for example – than about the end of life itself. In general, when we are asked if we are afraid to die, most of us deny it, and report only...
Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic

...study, 12% of those in relationships reported that their sex life had worsened during the pandemic.3 3. Changes in relationship quality The crux of Natsal-COVID study findings is that many people were still having sex during the lockdown, but this didn’t mean that relationships were the same as before. Couples in ‘steady’ relationships reported that the quality of...
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...studying this course you should be able to: understand a range of perspectives on the nature of inclusive leadership engage with positive strategies for leading diverse teams identify the challenges of being an effective leader across a range of contexts consider how inclusive leadership can support change within an educational institution...Inclusive Leadership:...