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Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...based on the way value is created and captured. The process of value creation and capture can involve two parties: in this case the business model is called dyadic. If it involves three parties, the business model is triadic. The different types are outlined in Figure 1. [Described image] Figure 1 Dyadic and triadic business model types It is important to note that...
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...based on understanding the lived experiences of young people, and acknowledging the structural and social changes they are contending with. She urges everyone working with young people – policymakers, researchers and practitioners – to see young people ‘in the round’, rather than as a collection of deficits; to seek ways of building on their strengths to help them...
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...based movement that appealed to white people as well as Black people. Black Power emphasised the need to defend oneself when attacked violently. But it also supported notions of self-sufficiency and autonomy, through building independent networks, services and institutions. Love and power can be closely related – you can spread love through power and change the nature...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...base jumping and freestyle skiing. In this course you will focus predominantly on extreme endurance activities – in other words, activities that are considered ‘extreme’ because they push the limits of human endurance, both physically and mentally. [Described image] Figure 1 You may hear news stories of people running a marathon every day for a year, cycling across...
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...based the plot of his play on The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus (1592), an English translation of a German book (now known as the Faustbuch) about an actual historical figure who gained notoriety in early sixteenth-century Germany by dabbling in the occult. This story rapidly became the stuff of legend and, like most legends, it...
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...de Sablé), and attempting solo challenges where isolation can play a significant role (Leach, 2016). MacIntyre et al. (2019, p. 3) argue that the interaction with nature that occurs in extreme sports ‘offers an opportunity to explore how stress, psychological resources, coping and psychological growth interact’. To explore this further, in the next activity you will...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education

...based on our research, it is evident that training and leadership is important in ensuring staff receive equitable and compassionate responses. References: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) (2006) Is Work Good for Your Health and Well-being? [Online]. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/health-work-and-wellbeing-evidence-and-research (Accessed: 10...
Our sense of balance
Science, Maths & Technology

Our sense of balance

...base of the brain where information from both ears and from the different components of the vestibular system (otolithic organ and semi-circular canals) is integrated. After this point the information ascends to be processed in the oculomotor system which is a system that coordinates eye movements in response to head movements. This process allows a stable image to be...