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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...researched in the psychological and sociological disciplines. Those who live and work with children can draw on a wide spread of knowledge for assessing and meeting children’s needs across a range of areas: physical and developmental needs cognitive and learning needs social and environmental needs emotional and affectional needs behavioural presentation. Government...
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How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...researchers working at The Open University answer cancer-related questions about the new coronavirus in this series of articles...Who are we? We are cancer researchers working at The Open University. Our daily job involves identifying and testing new therapies and new diagnostic technologies for cancers. For this reason, we are regularly in contact with cancer charities...
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A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...research of Lofthouse et al. (2010) on developing coaching among teachers. Read the following quote to help you complete Activity 1. It is widely accepted that mentoring usually takes place at significant career events, such as induction and taking on new roles, it has an element of gatekeeping and the mentor is almost always someone more senior in the organisation and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...research in Scotland indicates the need for a minimum of 12,000 of these over the next five years. But there is a question mark around what “affordable” actually means and if this will be of any use to those with the greatest housing need. Affordable housing in the Scottish report, for example, was categorised as: A broader category of housing tenures that includes...
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How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...research on practice to go beyond the focus on individual police officer behaviour that is ‘aimed at training officers away from acting on racist or stereotypical beliefs to exploring ‘how some of policing’s institutional structures and practice contribute to racial discrimination’ (Epp, Maynard-Moody and Haider-Markel, 2017, p. 169). Furthermore, with the recent...
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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...research, and has been conducting a research project on Olaudah Equiano’s life in Cambridge and his contribution to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. This project revealed fascinating insights into the social and working relationships between eighteenth-century free Black men in England, English scholars, and clergymen. The significance of this is their...
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Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...research...Who counts as a refugee?: 1 The aspects and meanings of citizenship - The issues discussed in this course are considered in relation to different aspects and meanings of citizenship: people's legal and political status, their rights, opportunities to work, access to welfare, sense of identity and belonging, and practices of the everyday. Throughout human...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...research and will help you explore what matters in professional writing...This free course, Effective writing in professional social work practice, will introduce you to the importance of writing in professional social work. It will develop your understanding of the different ways that writing forms an integrated part of professional practice in the UK. People are at the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs