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Being an Olympic Parent: the family behind the athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being an Olympic Parent: the family behind the athlete

...money that parents have to spend with the athlete in the family. Family support at this stage also shows parents helping and supporting athletes when they experience setbacks such as injury. GB skier Chemmy Alcott, whose participation in Sochi 2014 looked doubtful following a leg break feels her family played a large part in her recovery: ‘My family are the reason I...
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Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...business, with the support of the Conservative party and the Constitution. The teaching of religion in Spanish schools has been a source of conflict for many years. The Second Republic of 1931 to 39, blown to pieces by the Civil War which started with the military coup in 36, was partly torn apart by the opposing stances on religion in society and even more specifically...
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What is Locus of Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Locus of Control?

...and employees' accidents’, Journal of Business and Psychology, 7, pp. 449–57. Kyriacou, C. and Sutcliffe, J. (1997) ‘A note on teacher stress and locus of control’, Journal of Occupational Psychology, 52 (3), pp. 227–8. Popova, S. (2012) ‘Locus of Control - Predictor of Health and Subjective Wellbeing’, European Medical Health and Pharmaceutical Journal, 4....
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Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters

...business over that time. The row erupted after freelance journalist Selene Nelson pitched a series on “plant-based recipes” to the magazine, given the rise in popularity of vegan products in recent years. Waitrose, like many UK supermarkets, has recently expanded its vegan product range and, as Sitwell’s own article in The Times in January 2018 noted – in less...
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Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...businesses that have grown up as repositories for storing it or selling it on, from car boots, junk shops and charity shops to self-storage units. However, the economic circumstances that have let this happen (and even validated and encouraged it) do not entirely explain the human or individual aspects of our relationships with the stuff we acquire. It does not explain...
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Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...business or mentoring others? What self-talk do you have when you don’t get something at work that you have applied/worked hard for? If there is nothing that comes to mind in the workplace, is there anything you would like to do in your personal life, but something is holding you back? For example, learning to play an instrument, learning a language or running a...
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Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...money lost and punish the offender. In the US the music industry associations conduct some 500 lawsuits a year in a bid to enforce their members’ copyright interests (see Saffer, 1997). In other countries enforcement might be through criminal law, which is necessary to deter major and systematic infringers. The increasing use of internet services that allow sharing of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...Money is a good example. Money only works so long as enough of us believe in it and have a common story about how it works. The global financial crisis is also a tale of how the social facts about markets changed, and a tale about a collapse in belief in the stories about subprime mortgage investments. In the process, some more widely shared stories changed. Many people...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs