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Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...research and advice of leaders in their fields. The course is introduced by GB hockey player Alex Danson. Alex features throughout the course and you will learn about how coaching and psychology have contributed to her success in sport. Transcript351 The course investigates how scientific and management ideas contribute to success, while also taking you on a journey...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...research for use in your own care settings, with groups and/or individuals. You can work through the course independently or with others. Case studies, vignettes and audio/video material developed through empirical research are used to bring alive the value and application of the toolkit...‘Relational care’ is a developing approach to care which can help address many...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...Researchers have identified multiple, overlapping forms of anxiety and depression in relation to climate change. At their most severe, they can lead to a complete inability to enjoy life, and to thoughts of suicide. Common feelings include a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness. Some groups are more prone to anxiety and distress than others, including people whose...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, where researchers used various scanning techniques. One, positron emission tomography (PET), highlights different metabolic processes in the brain, such as oxygen and sugar use. Another, known as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), can reveal active centres in the brain by detecting the tiny...
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Article 15 mins
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...researching a topic or finding information online. There are also several points in the course where you will need to either reflect on your experience or write other notes. It’s up to you how you keep your notes; for example, online or using a notebook of some sort. Every week ends with an interactive quizzes, of which Weeks 4 and 8 will provide you with an opportunity...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...research on hibernating mammals has focused on bats, hedgehogs, hamsters and in particular, the sciurid rodents (squirrels). Table 2 The six (out of 30) families of rodents in which adaptive hypothermia is known to occur. FAMILY EXAMPLES COMMENTS Zapodidae meadow jumping mouse, Scandinavian birch mouse deep hibernation Heteromyidae pocket mice, kangaroo mice erratic,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...research. I do write a little bit now, and I use it for research. Mostly recipes, it must be said, at the moment. But yeah, I use it for those sorts of things, to find things out. JESS I use the internet a lot. I have a Facebook. I rely on emails for everything. Facebook, which is obviously for friends, I use that a lot for work. I know that I've got jobs in the past that...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...researchers have looked at the teddy boy disturbances in the supposedly peaceful and law-abiding 1950s. Can you think of other more recent examples of moral panics which may have a criminal dimension or are considered threats to order perhaps associated with ‘immoral’ and ‘violent’ activities? If you can, follow the examples you think of through the cycle of moral...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs