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Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...data here seem pretty clear.” Additional support for this comes from a highly influential 2000 paper, by a team lead by Professor Shelley Taylor at UCLA, that looked at bio-behavioural responses to stress. They found that while men tend to exhibit the well-known ‘fight or flight’ response, women are more likely to use ‘tend and befriend’. “Although women might...
Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...data, statistics and graphs. Activity 8 Read the case study in Worksheet 4. Jack evaluates his voluntary experience and what action was taken, by using a STARE grid and ‘action words’ (see also Worksheet 5 in Section 6). Try completing the blank grid provided in Worksheet 4 using examples of your own activities to demonstrate your skills and how you acquired them. The...
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...analysis of this was that the fact that these were non-renewable was not the point; it was the fact that we couldn’t absorb the pollutants that they generated. So I first got interested in energy as a thermodynamic problem and the thermodynamics underpinned the whole of our economies. Our economies basically run on the laws of thermodynamics because the whole of the...
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...analysis? Make notes on what you have read. Answer Discussion Figure 7.1 of the report in Activity 2 provides an effective image of the division of types ofland used in the calculations. It shows the main components of the EF, simplified into 'biodiversity', 'built land', 'energy land', 'bioproductive sea' and 'bioproductive land'. A city's EF is enormously larger than...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...analysis from this perspective aids a critique of how rights are constructed. It allows us to question the bases from which rights are created and protected. If rights are about ensuring health and well-being while minimising pain and suffering, then humans are not the only species to experience such emotions...Criminology beyond crime: Conclusion - The concept of social...
Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...analysis has told us that the original woodland the predominant tree was not actually the oak but was the lime with hazel, and some elm, and of course oak as well. And what has happened is that during pre-history the lime, and to some extent the elm, has all being selectively removed. In Britain we've got two species of oak - the common or pedunculate oak, and the dumast...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...data and opinions relevant to the task achievement Giving feedback: Giving position feedback on feelings and opinions Summarising: Summarising a discussion or the group’s progress Recognising feelings: In general, recognising that people have personal feelings about their work Finding a balance between the two types of behaviours can be difficult. Managers may need to...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...data-and-analysis/glotip/Trafficking_in_Persons_2012_web.pdf (Accessed 10 September 2014). Upadhyaya, K.P. (2008) Poverty, Discrimination and Slavery: the Reality of Bonded Labour in India, Nepal and Pakistan, Anti-Slavery International. Weissbrodt, D. (2007) ‘Slavery’ in Wolfrum, R. (ed.) Max Planch Encyclopedia of Public International Law, [Online], Oxford, Oxford...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs