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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...managers, only 21% rated themselves as high on purposefulness. When we broke this down further, we found that 35% of leaders overall said that they had a strong vision for their team and were committed to a wide range of stakeholders. Just 8% said they had a strong personal moral compass. When we asked employees, only 40% said their manager behaved ethically. This...
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Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...manager, your colleagues, your campaigning associates or whoever – that you’ve drawn from a relevant reservoir of evidence to support recommendations which will change practice or policy. You might think that a literature review is a highly ‘academic’ exercise. Well, it is; but it should also be seen as very practical. It should be seen as something that can be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...managing, performance and development directors, and other senior leadership positions (Women in Sport, 2017). Closing the gender gap in sport has been a growing priority for those in government and in national governing bodies (NGBs) of sport but if sport is still an ‘old boys club’, who are the key decision makers who are driving this change and how much progress...
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Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...project called ‘Plastic childhoods’. This phrase ‘plastic childhoods’ immediately conjures up images of damage and waste but in his research Kraftl focuses on the wider, and more nuanced, impacts of plastics on children’s lives. He focuses on the different ways in which plastics appear, travel through and disappear in children's lives, and also considers the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...Management of the Menopause (6th ed.). Marlow: British Menopause Society. Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust (2020) The Menopause: Short Term and Long Term Effects Available at: https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/ media/ 4513/ gyn_2018-144.pdf (Accessed: 27 February 2024). Mansberg, G. (2020) The M Word: How to Thrive in Menopause. London: Murdoch Books. Newson, L....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...Project Qualification (EPQ) is an opportunity for you to work independently on a topic that really interests you or that you think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level qualification. These articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ. See previous article in series: Finding and using evidence Writing up your dissertation. Being able to...
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Who are Europeans?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are Europeans?

...project of constructing a European community out of an array of different states with different languages and cultures was utopian (Shore, 1993). There is no doubt that in the mind of the founding fathers of the EEC (Monnet, Schuman, De Gasperi, Spaak, Adenauer and others), there was a clear federalist project which, for different reasons, has been realised only in part....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...Project Professor Lord Nicholas Stern interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin interviewer NS: = Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Economist, and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE, participant RH: Nick Stern, Lord Stern, thank you very much for agreeing to be interviewed for the OU and Radio 4. All our interviewees in this...
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