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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
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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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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The health impacts of FGM
Health, Sports & Psychology

The health impacts of FGM

...Research on the health impact and needs of women at menopause and in older age living with the consequences of FGM remains limited. The Bottom Line FGM causes a cascade of serious, lifelong health complications that undermine the wellbeing and life chances of girls and women. To meet their complex needs, dedicated, specialist and trauma-informed health and social care...
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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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Article 10 mins
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...research expert in this area calls it ‘ordinary magic’. It is a quality and a process that can be enhanced and developed which is good news for social workers, who are typically required to manage change and complex, competing demands (Grant and Kinman, 2015, p. 5). In this free course, Supporting and developing resilience in social work , you investigate how you, as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...research to inform personal initial views on openness; integrate decisions regarding online privacy and identity into choices to be more open or closed when working online; be aware of online networking and how such activity may develop and be visualised...Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?: 1 Investigating an open landscape - In this opening section Anne...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs