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Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...studying this course, you should be able to: use the investigating psychology CHIP resource with confidence understand how the resource can be used to investigate historical and conceptual issues in psychology independently understand the interconnected nature of the history of psychology appreciate how the methods and questions asked in psychology have changed over time...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...studying this course, you should be able to: recognise different perspectives and value that can be added by innovation appreciate innovation and diffusion processes identify key ‘innovation management’ activities understand the four key lenses of people, technology, organisational and contextual (PTOC) factors that influence and are influenced by
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand more effective ways of engaging with children and young people understand the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences understand the difference between ‘at risk’ and ‘risky behaviours’ evaluate potential steps that can be taken to better support children and young people...Engaging with children and young...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Do sperm whales speak with local accents?
Science, Maths & Technology

Do sperm whales speak with local accents?

...study published in Nature Communications, the whales aren’t born with different vocal chords or a bit of the sea particularly suited to a certain kind of click. They simply acquire their dialects from one another in the same way you or I might have taken on our parents' accent – by copying what they hear. Sperm whales aren’t the only animals who learn like this. I...
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Article 5 mins
What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?
Money & Business

What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?

...Studies...[The closed Hand & Racquet pub in London] Bad for pubs, certainly - but would higher taxes on alcohol be bad for the wider economy? In 1850, the French economist Frederic Bastiat wrote the parable of a shopkeeper whose window is smashed. Aghast at the damage, the shopkeeper is consoled with the idea that at least his broken windows are good for the economy,...
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Article 5 mins
How can you tell that you're not experiencing a delusion?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can you tell that you're not experiencing a delusion?

...study, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, psychologist Milton Rokeach observed what would happen when three people, each firmly believing they were Jesus, lived together in very close proximity for several months. Rokeach wondered how the three men would react when they realised there was more than one Jesus. Rather than some dawning of reality, Rokeach observed that each of...
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Article 5 mins
Driven to drink?
Society, Politics & Law

Driven to drink?

...study made in the USA adds to the explanations for the weakness of voluntary associations, democracy and what has been term ‘social capital’ by arguing that the enforcement of stricter drink-drive legislation is a cause of the decline. This sounds like a cautionary tale of the unintended consequences of a public good. Worried by the prospect of getting stopped for...
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Article 10 mins
How do microplastics make their way into our food?
Nature & Environment

How do microplastics make their way into our food?

...studied, we are yet to know whether microplastics are entering our food chain by accumulating in edible parts of plants. The transfer of microplastics from soil to crops raises questions about the long term consequences for human health. How do microplastics enter the soil? One of the ways that microplastics get into soil is through the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer....
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Article 10 mins