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Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?

...health issues such as depression, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety issues, acquired memory losses, Tourette’s and other neurominorities. Rooted in the social model of disability, neurodiversity sees disability as entrenched in society rather than the individual, and proponents of the neurodiversity movement want to make it easier for all neurodiverse people...
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Article 10 mins
The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...health, including susceptibility to certain diseases, such as heart disease. Human genome sequence When genetics is explained in the news there's usually a graphic of a whole string of lettering. This is the human genome sequence. What you see on the news is an alphabetic representation of the molecular structure of DNA. The information is stored in the DNA as a series of...
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Article 10 mins
Coronavirus: Dealing with Death, Dying and Grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coronavirus: Dealing with Death, Dying and Grief

...health if you don't have the support you need. We've also put together this video series on our YouTube channel, exploring different ways of breaking bad news and the impact of how the news is delivered has upon the person hearing it. How do you tell someone that they're dying? And how will they respond to the news? Did you know death, dying and bereavement has been a...
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Article 15 mins
An introduction to the Social Work Hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to the Social Work Hub

...course such as Introducing social care and social work? Alternatively, you could look at an interactive such as The caring manager in health and social care. If you are interested in learning more about studying a qualification such as a degree or Certificate of Higher Education, you can find out more about the OU’s social work and social care programmes here....
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Article 5 mins
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...health and safety violations, illegal collaboration with multinational corporations criminality at cultural and societal levels, including: material immiseration of sections of the community, institutional racism, cultural vandalism. Family violence Forms of physical or mental violence in the life cycle of family members: it can include physical abuse and neglect of...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...Health NHS Foundation Trust in whose care he died. … There was a lack of leadership, focus and sufficient time spent in the Trust on carefully reporting and investigating unexpected deaths …’ (Mazars, 2015, pp. 7–16) [Described image] Figure 1: Connor Sparrowhawk, who drowned in a bath at Slade House residential unit. Slade House is just one of thousands of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...public in 1976. These class 43 HSTs, which had been earmarked for museums, had been given a new lease of life under Scotrails’ ‘Building the best Railway Scotland’s ever had!’ campaign. This campaign is still ongoing, as Scotrail try to introduce shorter journey times and more comfortable trains for the public. I did discover, however, that the public were not...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...public, private and personal knowledge. The middle flow diagram shows the research activities. The bottom flow diagram identifies the process through which the research activities are enabled or facilitated. [Described image] Figure 1 Outcomes, research activities and enabling processes The difference between public and private knowledge is that public knowledge is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs