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Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...write down your thoughts in response to the following questions. What is there to know in your professional context that could potentially be the subject of your research? (Be guided by what you would be interested in finding out). Where might you look in order to investigate it? Why? (Consider whether you think there is a single reality to be identified and measured, or...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...Writing in support of using the notion of wellbeing in public policy, Hetan Shah has argued that ‘an incredible amount is spent on our “health” service, but most of it focuses on dealing with physical symptoms of sickness’ and that ‘we need to reconfigure the purpose of the system in order to promote wellbeing’ (Shah, 2005, p. 39). Other writers have argued...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...Write a list of all of the things that you think citizenship is and some examples of what you think citizenship looks like. Many people think of citizenship as a status: being a member of a nation-state and having a set of rights and duties in relation to that specific national community. The list you just made could include such rights, for example, the right to hold a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...Write up to five words or phrases, or draw images that come to mind when you hear the term ‘social worker’. Try to put down words or phrases that you associate with social workers; or you could ask a friend or family member for their response. A social worker ... Now separate your responses into positive and negative attributes. Ask yourself what may have influenced...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...write them by hand, you should underline the name. In this instance, the Greek word leptos means ‘slender’ or ‘fine’, and onyx is a Greek word meaning ‘nail’ or ‘claw’. So the name of the genus Leptonychotes refers to the narrow claws on the flippers of the seal (actually, the hind flippers in this case). The species name weddelli is given in honour of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...write a definition 15 minutes [Quiz] Activity 12 Drawbacks of traditional management accounting Answer the questions 15 minutes This free course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B253 and related to the Open University qualification BSc (Honours) Accounting and Finance...Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting: Learning...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...writing that book. And much later the actual mechanics of energy policy became obviously the thing that people interested in climate change had to do, and that, I suppose, mainly occurred for me in the early 2000s, particularly when I began to be interested in what the British Government was doing, and eventually when I became an advisor to the British Government. Climate...
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The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor
History & The Arts

The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor

...writing history, which was often very different from our own. Much, although not all, of what you consider will represent posthumous judgements on the emperors involved rather than full accounts of reigns. It will not be possible here to assess in detail the actions, policies, building schemes and so forth of all the emperors mentioned, but you should remember that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs