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The OU Welcomes Carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The OU Welcomes Carers

...resources and courses offers the most flexible way for carers to study around their caring commitments. We also have a strong and ongoing commitment – underpinned by a robust research programme – to meeting carers’ needs and continually develop our evidence-based systems to ensure we are ideally placed to help carers access and succeed in education. For example, we...
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How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?
Digital & Computing

How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?

...resources (thus not “Cheap”) and time (thus not “Fast”) to its process, and as a result it ended up with a substantially better final product than many of the jurisdictions that either rushed programs out the door, or tried to repurpose existing resources without thoughtful investment in a field of growing importance. The desire for quick and low cost answers to...
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Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

...resource within the group. I decided to support group members’ own confidence in taking leadership. Their challenges included developing a group repertoire and sound where some membership was regularly changing, or had mixed ability, nationalities and the challenges of singing outdoors. Sometimes people don’t see the value in specific group based activity, preferring...
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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...resources to help more with developing ACT skills and it may also be useful to discuss this further with a trustworthy colleague or friend. There are also further resources you may find useful in the Applying Psychology at Work Hub, including: What's in your toolbox? The value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace. References American Psychological...
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Article 10 mins
Bias in ADHD and autism diagnosis
Education & Development

Bias in ADHD and autism diagnosis

...resources and social capital are often better able to recognise early signs, advocate for their children, navigate complex systems and access private assessments and support. In contrast, families facing economic disadvantage are more likely to encounter barriers at all stages. Limited access to resources and longer waiting times all contribute towards later...
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Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...human life and illness and on the costs of environmental harm. Certainly the area of environmental economics is a developing one but it will not be considered further here. The first detailed study of the cost of accidents was made in 1931 by Heinrich (see Heinrich, 1990). By examining many thousands of insurance records and interviewing many staff he derived a...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...human societies I think most of the time it is the idea that certain things are out of place are polluting, are dangerous, cause you trouble, they make you ill, may lower your status. And what those things are can vary tremendously from one society to another but there is one constant in most human societies - we all have a lot of symbolic thought associated with the body...
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Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 1: The meaning and value of leadership: Introduction - Leadership holds a special place in people’s imaginations. When people speak about leadership, they’re thinking about the big picture: trying to sort out major problems and provide a vision that will...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs