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The science of the mind: investigating mental health
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of the mind: investigating mental health

...social science contribute to our understanding of mental health and mental illness? How do the biomedical and biopsychosocial models compare when it comes to diagnosis and treatment? This album reveals the importance of the perspective scientists and health professionals take, and the difference it can make to treatment outcomes. The Blackthorn Garden case study...
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Audio 1 hr 56 mins
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...interacting with some situation which you find puzzling, intriguing, worrying or which you are trying to manage. You believe the situation involves more than just a single process like the manufacture of a product such as concrete, or a cake, where the properties of the product can be altered in a predictable way by changing the ingredients or the processing used. It is...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...social media in connecting with new audiences...Jack Perks Jack is a wildlife photographer and filmmaker specialising in freshwater fish, but with a passion for all things natural history. After studying a BA (Hons.) in Marine & Natural History Photography at Falmouth, he went on to work for many conservation groups like the Wildlife Trusts, RSPB and WWF supplying images...
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Video 30 mins
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...interacted in providing ‘rational’ justification for contemporary social hierarchy. Finally, we might ask, what impact did the model of the sensible body have on therapy? Once again, the picture is a mixed one. As studies in electricity grew in the 1740s and 1750s, a link between nervous excitement and the regenerative and therapeutic value of electrical force was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...social world. Interpretivist (or ‘critical’, or ‘post-positivist’) research focuses on understanding social phenomena. Such questions ask how a certain understanding of the world, set of social relations or array of practices comes to be. Implicit here is the sense that other ways of understanding and arranging the social world are possible, and perhaps desirable,...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...social relationships or networks that are associated with this kind of activity. this course encourages you to start thinking about entrepreneurship: what it is, how it works and why it is worth exploring. Figure 1 People have a tendency to stereotype entrepreneurs There is a widespread tendency to stereotype entrepreneurs and, as a consequence, to over-simplify a far...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One

...social media for a long time. It changed its gender option so that, instead of choosing from ‘male’ and ‘female’, users could pick from a range of over 50 gender terms, as well as choosing to be referred to as ‘they’ if they didn’t want a gendered pronoun (‘he’ or ‘she’). As usual, rather than getting into whether this is a good move or a bad move by...
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Article 5 mins
What is shareholder activism?
Money & Business

What is shareholder activism?

...socially or environmentally friendly policies. [Businessman walking into opportunity doors] Shareholder activism covers a broad spectrum of activities, including public threats of selling the stake in the target company, private discussions with company boards, public “name-and-shame” press campaigns to influence the board, shareholder resolutions at extraordinary...
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Article 10 mins