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Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...et al. (2016) and Rees et al. (2016), a range of factors that contribute to sporting success are grouped under three headings: the performer, the overall social environment, and training and practice. There is a lot of overlap between each category indicating the links between them. For example, to avoid injuries (the performer), you would consider the type of training...
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...Institute in Panama City has been tagging humpback whales with transmitters that can be monitored by satellite. He has been able to overlay the routes taken by individual whales with those taken by individual ships. These tracks show that typically an individual humpback comes within 200 m of a ship at least once a day. This data will enable shipping routes to be modified...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...et al., 2017). Luckily, the spread of the malware was significantly slowed down by a security researcher, Marcus Hutchins, who accidentally discovered and activated the ‘kill switch’ of the malware the next day, on 13 May 2017. When inspecting the malware’s code, Hutchins noticed an unusually long internet domain name in the code. He checked and found out that the...
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...institutions (HEIs) took the opportunity to reflect on how these emergency practices and policies could or should evolve into a planned and proactive approach to working in a hybrid environment. This process of reflection included a greater focus on the wellbeing and inclusion of staff and students, which considered: the impact – positive and negative – of digital...
Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol
Society, Politics & Law

Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol

...et al, 2018). Gellir ei ddeall mewn ffordd syml iawn (gweithgareddau sy’n ymwneud â ‘chyfrifoldeb personol’, megis ufuddhau i’r gyfraith a thalu trethi), yr holl ffordd i synnwyr eithafol, gan ganolbwyntio ar fynd i’r afael ag anghyfiawnder mewn cymdeithas, a ddiffinnir gan Westheimer a Kahne (2004) fel dinasyddiaeth ‘sy’n canolbwyntio ar gyfiawnder’....
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...et al., 2012, pp. 109–10)...Week 3: Expenditure and budgeting: 3.2.5 Heuristics and spending - One reason why people sometimes pay higher prices for certain goods and services is that they think a higher price equates to higher quality. The price of a product is often used as a mental short cut to assess quality. Such short cuts are called heuristics and they’re used...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Deall datganoli yng Nghymru
Society, Politics & Law

Deall datganoli yng Nghymru

...Institute for Government, gan nodi 20 mlynedd o ddatganoli: Diben datganoli oedd sicrhau setliad newydd rhwng rhannau cyfansoddol y DU er mwyn dod â phenderfyniadau'n agosach at y bobl a oedd yn meddu ar ymdeimlad cryf o hunaniaeth. Ac yn wleidyddol, hefyd, osgoi bygythiad mwy ymwahaniad ... dyma oedd safbwynt sefydledig y Blaid Lafur [pan benodwyd Blair yn arweinydd...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...et al., 2006; Lawton, 2000; Seale and Addington-Hall, 1995). A number of reasons for this have been suggested, including the greater openness of expression encouraged in hospices, the distress of witnessing other people’s deaths and wanting to avoid a similar experience, and the wish to remain physically independent and ‘in control’ (Chapple et al., 2006). In...