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Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...adults [and] makes them very cross and that's funny. But there's also a pleasure in messiness and dirtiness, again referring back to my own profession, I always thought one of the greatest 20th Century British cartoonists was Ralph Steadman because he's so messy. You get other cartoonists who do nice neat lines, Ralph just tears the page to pieces, blots all over the...
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Article 30 mins
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...care, but less consideration is given to psychological wounds which, in the main, tend to be invisible. There is significant neurological evidence to suggest that psychological wounds leave mental scars which in essence help make up our personality (Solms, 2018). I describe these psychological wounds as psychic corns, that is, areas of the mind that through repeated...
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Article 5 mins
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...care about. This short course was made in the aftermath of violent street disturbances in working-class areas of Northern Ireland in the spring of 2021. It was developed with boys (aged 14–16 years) from the Shankill in Belfast, a Loyalist community and one of the areas where these disturbances took place and is for all young people, but especially those growing up in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...care of your interviewee and managing your own self-care. To do this, it is important to keep track of time, to intermittently assess the progress of the interview, and to keep it moving along steadily. If you get near to the end of the time you had said the interview would last and you anticipate going over, you can consider either extending the interview or wrapping it...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...adult stage they continue to be carnivorous. They eat midges and gnats and mosquitoes, butterflies, bees, very often each other. That's what they eat. And they're eaten in turn by birds. Hobbies, for example, make a particular speciality of catching dragonflies. NARRATOR Now part of the terrestrial food web, adult damselflies and dragonflies are also prey for a diversity...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...care should be taken to ensure that communications with other stakeholders (senior management, line managers and other members of staff in the departments affected, and so on) are not neglected, as it is easy for 'us and them' distinctions to develop...Groups and teamwork: 2.3.3 The matrix team - In a matrix team, staff report to different managers for different aspects...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...careful scrutiny. ‘The figures and factors underpinning the research must be studied closely’. The Government is keen for the Hamilton scheme to be a template for adoption by forces across Britain, but John Orr, the Strathclyde chief constable, conceded the research was not wholly supportive. He stressed, however, that complaints to the police had fallen by 20 per...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...adults it is easy to be drawn away to the world of being serious and attending to more ‘grown-up matters’. Even when you do access your imagination it can often be through the lens of someone else’s thought as you read a book, or watch a film or television programme. Yet for adults, imagination is arguably important for ‘even the most minimally creative thought’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs