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Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education

...managed. [The word bereavement spelled out in scrabble letters] While such policies can be hard for small organisations to design and implement, large organisations such as Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs, i.e. universities) have significant resources which can help them to better plan and make adjustments to best support their staff after a loss. However,...
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Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen

...managing her mental illness. Season one: the uncompromising Mathison The first season centred on the uncompromising Mathison. She is convinced “war hero” Nicholas Brody is an Al Qaeda agent based on evidence and intuitiveness – rather than delusions. Far from being portrayed as a social failure with few skills or without identifiable employment, she is a high-level...
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Ageing Well Collection
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Ageing Well Collection

...management are crucial for improving quality of life. Since 2019, over 25,000 members of the public have engaged with the talks nationally, and the AWPTS portfolio of resources has engaged over 90,000 people globally; our regular feedback confirms that this intervention has increased knowledge of age-related processes, attitudes to health and wellbeing, confidence in...
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Article 5 mins
Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...manage their environment. This article explores Traditional Ecological Knowledges and how we can live more sustainably...The diversity of biota (that is the animal and plant life of a particular region, habitat, or geological period) in our world as well as the diversity of those who live in it is mind-bogglingly fascinating. From the biodiverse tropical jungles of...
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Article 10 mins
Badges come to OpenLearn
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Badges come to OpenLearn

...project of the year’. Currently, learners enrolled on any of the almost 800 short courses on OpenLearn can download an activity record to print or to share online what they have read. Digital badges issued with each BOC and accompanying Statement of Participation are a different marker of achievement: learners will have not only read full online courses but will have...
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The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...Managing Sport and Leisure, 25(1–2), pp. 1–6. Rinke, S. and Schiller, K. (2014) ‘Introduction’, in Rinke, S. and Schiller, K. (eds) The FIFA World Cup 1930–2010: Politics, Commerce, Spectacle and Identities. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. Ronay, B. (2022) ‘Uefa and Fifa are too late: Russia’s sportswashing has served its purpose’, The Guardian, 25 February....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...Introduction - This course looks at communication systems where devices are the main players, passing information to and from each other and possibly acting on that information to produce some kind of outcome. In these interactions, people may not be involved at all, or may have roles that are limited only to the initial setting of schedule (such as when certain tasks...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Bullying and Manipulation: Join the Resistance
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Bullying and Manipulation: Join the Resistance

...we can use, both to manage our own responses to bullies, but also to maintain contexts where this behaviour is discouraged? This short interactive experience explores the psychology of bullying and manipulation in three different places: social media, the workplace and the school playground... [Bullying an manipulation interactive image] Select the image to begin......
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Activity 15 mins