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Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?

...researchers and the media due to its potential severity and because females are at a higher risk of sustaining the injury (Marmura, Bryant and Getgood, 2021). A study by Montalvo et al. (2019) found that female football players had more than double the incidence rate of an ACL injury relative to male football players. Interestingly, this difference was irrespective of...
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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...research on the personalities of political elites highlights a tendency for certain personality traits to be more common among politicians. Politicians are generally low in traits that imply trust and trustworthiness (such as agreeableness), and high in those that facilitate politicking, and operating clandestinely (Carparra et al., 2010; Silvester et al., 2013). Research...
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Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...research demonstrates positive impacts on levels of absenteeism, retention, innovation, and customer satisfaction, plus importantly in these challenging times, reciprocal positive influences on wellbeing. When engaged, people find what they do fulfilling and rewarding, offer more of their commitment, capability and potential, and have a real sense of belonging and...
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...research. Other critiques and rejections post-Macpherson include Civitas’ (Green et al., 2000) publication ‘Institutional Racism and the Police: Fact or Fiction’ which challenges the utility of the concept and emphasises its vagaries. Lea (2000) critiques Macpherson’s definition and use of institutional racism as conflating individual and intentional racism with...
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Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...research-based projects with the OU after writing a participatory research proposal on bereavement for my final assessment in 2023. I experienced a significant bereavement in my early school years, after my mum died of a rare form of cancer in 1999. Since then, I have gone through a series of life events that have brought up feelings of the loss of my mother in a range of...
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An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...research project in partnership with the Faith and Belief Forum and Inform, the resource packs below are designed for three different groups, tailored to your needs. Each contains information on the Worldviews recommendation, what good religious education looks like, how you can get involved in (or bring diverse perspectives into) religious education in schools, and how...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...researching and working in first- and second-language learning contexts. [Described image] Figure 7 Lev Vygotsky Unlike Halliday, however, Vygotsky’s perspective on language and learning has its origins in the discipline of psychology. Vygotsky argues that learning and mental development need to be viewed as a social process: it is through the interactions we enter into...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...research scenario where Apple is evaluating the pricing strategy for its latest iPhone model. A respondent in a focus group states that ‘Apple iPhones are too expensive’. While this statement provides some insight, it lacks the specificity required for rigorous testing. However, if the respondent specifies that an Apple iPhone costing over £500 is too expensive, we...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs