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Why is childbirth a medical procedure?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is childbirth a medical procedure?

...Health Organisation recommends that the caesarean rate should be no more than 10 – 15 per cent, the average caesarean rate across the UK is 22 per cent. Indeed, many hospitals in the UK now have caesarean rates that exceed 25 per cent (BirthChoice UK, 2005). Justification for the medicalisation of birth Several explanations have been put forward to justify the...
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Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?

...health difficulties. Some autistic people may internalise in specific contexts (e.g., school, work, social situations) but externalise in the safer and more familiar environment of the home. The role of masking or camouflaging Some autistic people develop strategies and behaviours to fit in socially or to appear ‘less autistic’, and this is known as ‘masking’ or...
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Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...Health, National Institute of Mental Health. NIH Publication No. 15-3561, Bethesda. Nemeroff, C.B., Weinberger, D., Rutter, M., MacMillan, H.L., Bryant, R.A., Wessely, S., Stein, D.J., Pariante, C.M., Seemüller, F., Berk, M, Malhi, G.S., Preisig, M., Brüne, M. and Lysaker, P. (2013) ‘DSM-5: a collection of psychiatrist views on the changes, controversies, and future...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...health issues. The testing of nuclear weapons has also affected millions of individuals around the world. Nuclear fallout and dangerously high radiation levels emanating from nuclear tests affect individuals at the time of the tests and contaminate the areas for years afterwards. Activity 2 Watch this video of Ibba Bobaker, who represents those affected by French nuclear...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...public situations. This is also sometimes true of politicians’ published memoirs. Equally useful may be documents produced within organisations for internal consumption that are made public through legal prosecution, via unofficial leaks, or which can be obtained by the researcher through negotiation with those who have access to them. These may offer very different...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...public are regularly bombarded with advertising for ‘stuff’, and particularly technological artefacts such as, ever ‘smarter’ phones, mini remote controlled drones, apps for just about everything, and many other forms of techie gadget. Yet arguably the greatest single innovation of the 20th century (and still as significant today) – the one which most changed...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...public or voluntary sectors. In addition, this OpenLearn course discusses the role of operations managers and the importance of focusing on suppliers and customers...Operations management is one of the central functions of all organisations. This free course, Understanding operations management, will provide you with a basic framework for understanding this function,...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication
Society, Politics & Law

The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication

...publics and especially young people. Can you describe how these audiences experience working within the installation and how they felt /did afterwards? Gil Mualem-Doron: Before the installation at the Turner Contemporary, commissioned by Platforma, at Margate, which took place three days after the Brexit results, and a few weeks after Jo Cox murder, people suggested that...
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