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What is Planetary Protection?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Planetary Protection?

...Research (COSPAR) logo.]COSPAR logoThe Policy was established by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). Through this Policy, international requirements have been developed to support space-faring nations and other organisations to meet their Planetary Protection obligations, including considering Planetary Protection during mission design and build. The COSPAR...
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Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...research have already been done in this area but more excavation and discussion of women’s key involvement in struggles around issues such as equal pay and conditions of employment remains to be done. [Striking women workers employed by Glasgow City Council demonstrating for equal pay in George Square Glasgow, 2018]Striking women workers employed by Glasgow City Council...
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Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...researchers use the terms ‘emotion’ and ‘mood’ interchangeably. The basic disagreement seems to be about whether it is important to recognise that one state (emotion) is normally associated, by the person experiencing it, with a particular object or cause, and the other (mood) is often not. What difference might this make? Some evidence suggests that a particular...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Supporting social work learners: practice educator refresher (England)
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting social work learners: practice educator refresher (England)

...research and relevant policy, legislation and practice. (B2) Using a range of learning methods, including modelling good social work practice. Teach and support the learning of relevant social work knowledge and research, and the integration of theory and research in practice. Knowledge taught should include the powers and duties, and policy and procedures of the agency....
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Free course 8 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...research scientist at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, working on vaccines. During the First World War, he served in the British Army’s Medical Corps where he witnessed the prolonged impact of battlefield infections. After the war, Fleming returned to his research career at St Mary’s. He began to study influenza (flu), a disease that was a particular priority...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...researching or carrying out an experiment or collecting data making notes thinking over your ideas. Planning Planning your assignment involves: working out an appropriate and logical structure identifying what is relevant and what is not taking account of the word limit refining your ideas selecting appropriate evidence or quotations. Drafting This stage comprises a...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...Research Group, 2010)...Understanding depression and anxiety: 1.1 What do we mean by stress? - We tend to think of ‘stress’ as a state of demand that is likely to stretch us to breaking point, and hence as a bad thing, to be avoided. An image of stress this brings to mind is pulling on a chain with increasing force: sooner or later the chain will break at the weakest...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Rugby tackles homophobia
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby tackles homophobia

...Researchers who have studied issues of gay people in sports largely agree that organised sports are highly homophobic (Anderson, 2002) although there is some more recent debate about whether men’s heterosexual ‘gay’ behaviours (e.g. kissing each other on the mouth) indicates more openness and acceptance (Anderson, 2005). This TV advert is a step towards even more...
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