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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...changing facilities. Becoming part of the established 'club' Most of the grassroots women’s teams are connected in some way to an existing men’s cricket club. People I spoke to from such clubs often referred to the difficulties that women’s teams faced integrating into the wider club that they were notionally part of. One County Development Officer, responsible for...
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Article 10 mins
Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...climate of security threat both domestically and internationally. Update: On November 19th, Telegram announced the intention of blocking channels carrying Isis propaganda How social media shaped our understanding of the Paris attacks Arnaud Mercier writes: As with so many disasters and tragedies that strike in the 21st century, social media – an area of open expression...
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Article 10 mins
From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...climate of ‘Hard Brexit’ as exemplified in recent statements by the Prime Minister which refuse to guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK. While all EU citizens living in the UK have to face an uncertain future, those BME Europeans, who arrived in the country post-2011 are more likely to be threatened. As we have found in our study, they are mostly in...
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Article 5 mins
Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work

...change and prioritise values depending on the opportunities or constraints present. Therefore, values are individual to you, so put aside thoughts about anyone else’s expectations or how you ‘should’ behave. Being honest with yourself about values that are authentic to you, then living by these, will help inform choices that improve your life, even if they don’t...
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Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...changed their compositions After spending two years studying how early Earth rocks were formed, I started to get interested in fluid-rock interactions in low-temperature conditions (low, in this case means around 150 °C!). That was the beginning of the connection between the geology I was studying and astrobiology. Could the kind of modelling I was doing be applied to...
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Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...change over time. This requires them to move beyond synchronic ‘snapshots’ of human psychology in order to explore the lived experience and psychological functioning of individuals across their entire lifespans. From the time of Darwin’s first publication on his own child, children have been central to psychology. One of the most influential developmental...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...climates throughout the world and mammals, birds, lizards and amphibians that survive there. It splits these animals into three groups according to their strategy for survival: evaders, evaporators and endurers, then discusses how these strategies work on a biochemical and physiological level...Animal life has adapted to survive in the most unlikely and inhospitable...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...changes in systems of employee relations appreciate the impact of structures of management and ownership on employee engagement reflect on the current state of employee engagement in an organisation...Employee engagement: 1 Experiencing engagement - Most people who have worked in different jobs in different sectors will have different experiences of employee engagement....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs