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Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...technology, but in what it enabled in terms of the circulation of ideas and information. My PhD project focused on print in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and my book Print and Party Politics in Ireland, 1689-1714 was based on that work. 3. What is it about your specialist area that fascinates you? I was particularly drawn to printed...
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The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...technologies, changes in schedules, and additional support with certain types of tasks. This approach to accommodations recognises the social model of disability, which focuses on removing barriers for people and recognises that such barriers can be disabling. When it comes to ADHD, the application of such adaptations can sometimes overly emphasise enabling the person to...
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Fast Reactors and Thorium
Science, Maths & Technology

Fast Reactors and Thorium

...technology (including the BN-600 and BN-800 power plants). Despite the challenges fast reactors continue to attract much technical interest in the UK and around the world given their potential fuel cycle efficiencies. India, for example, has a major fast reactor programme based at the Indira Ghandi Centre for Atomic Research near Chennai in the south-east of the country....
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Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...technologies, we can just go out and spend a long, long time filming something as it happens in real behaviour as much as we can.’ Or alternatively, this is when it comes to another reason for stock shot footage, for instance, is where they will go out and attempt to film a sequence of say, a lion kill or something like that or a tiger kill, and find that they haven’t...
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Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...technology education and in education for sustainable development; Practice – whether in conducting an analysis or being professional. There are a number of responses available to Schön's invitation to descend into the swamp of messy, confusing problems. Russell Ackoff uses the term messes to refer to the swamp, and difficulties to refer to the high ground. You should...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...Education (ITE) course. Finally, it might be thought of as a type of dialogue or prose, a particular type of conversation or a writing style that captures your personal views and relates them to evidence you have collected from elsewhere. Before considering the nature of reflection and the theoretical ideas that underpin it, it is worth considering why reflective practice...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...education and training which helps to reduce stress. This can be enhanced by supporting staff with the necessary evidence based pain management protocols so that practitioners can adopt an individual approach to a child and their family. Part of effective pain management includes parents, who want to, becoming involved in their child’s pain management, which needs to be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...technology – both HG Wells and EM Forster (to name but two) had already depicted future societies in which people’s lives are ruled by machines and other technologies. Other critics have argued that as a work of literature some of Orwell’s characterisation is thin. But does this matter? Most people would say ‘no’ because of the sheer power of the novel:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs