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The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...concepts and you’ll get plenty of opportunities to demonstrate your new understanding and practise your study skills. Part of this practice will be the interactive quizzes, of which Sessions 4 and 8 will provide you with an opportunity to earn a badge to demonstrate your new skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections....
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...prompt thoughts, feelings or reflections which may be distressing. Sometimes you may be aware of likely distress because you are interviewing people about something that is upsetting, but on other occasions you may not anticipate that a topic is upsetting. As researchers we should always be prepared for the potential that our questions, or the telling of stories, can...
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...concepts that have informed debates about mental health diagnosis outline how diagnostic systems have been developed and implemented explain why diagnostic systems are challenged in the mental health field...Making sense of mental health problems: 1 Assessing mental health problems - Figure 1 Ethan from the interactive ‘A Support Net’ which is associated with this...
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...concept which enables jobs to be examined in three very important ways: the demands of the job, which are what the job-holder must do; the constraints, which limit what the job-holder can do; and the choices, which indicate how much freedom the job-holder has to do the work in the way she or he chooses. Her purpose was to show how dealing appropriately with demands and...
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...prompt manner therefore allowing the student time to improve before their final assessment. Although the supervisor would be expected to speak to the student about these reported observations and provide feedback and/or feedforward, the practice assessor should check that this conversation has happened as the student may be unaware of staff concerns. A supportive...
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...concepts that were new in 1982, but common place in television nowadays. He created a series of animations that were all based on the coming together of the ‘coloured building blocks’ but all were slightly different, helping to keep the stations identity fresh and new. One such animation showed the coloured blocks separate and revolve – almost coming out of the...
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...concept beyond anecdote does seem to be changing minds. (At the Cambridge conference, Professor Mel Greaves of the Institute of Cancer Research in London stood up and said: “I came as something of a sceptic. But what I’ve seen about it looks incredibly interesting and promising…”) “This has been a difficult journey,” Guest says. “The past ten years have been...
Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside
Society, Politics & Law

Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside

...concept and its significance as an analytical framework for understanding debate surrounding labour unrest in Scotland during the early 20th century’. Section D: The debate on Red Clydeside i. Brotherstone, T., 1992. ‘Does Red Clydeside really matter anymore?’ In Duncan, R. and McIvor, A.J., (eds) (1992) Militant Workers: Labour and Class Conflict on the Clyde,...