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Facilitating group discussions
Money & Business

Facilitating group discussions

...analysis of those skill areas in which you feel confident, and the skills which you feel you need to improve. You may also wish to share this questionnaire with someone you work with in a group, and then compare your own scores with those of the other person. Below is a list of statements: read each statement and, thinking about your typical behaviour in a group, make a...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...analysis. The right hemisphere dominates for perception, spatial ability, musical and artistic abilities, imagery and dreaming. The right hemisphere also seems to be more emotional and negative compared to the positive and rational left hemisphere. Evidence to support the proposal that one hemisphere may dominate the other for a particular function, or hemispherical...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...data and aim for a relationship of objectivity, detachment and neutrality. Rather than feeling a part of a living world of plants, rocks, animals and water, Modern humans turned them into resources, there for human exploitation. Gradually, human relations to the natural world have been monetised; that is, treated in terms of their financial value. You shall see, later...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...data from thousands of children to offer a guide to monitor growth. Whichever growth line a child is born on will indicate the expected progress throughout that first year and then up to 18 years. The weight, height, and head circumference measurements should roughly follow on a parallel to a printed centile line. If a family are concerned about a child's growth, do talk...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
10 years of The Bottom Line
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10 years of The Bottom Line

...analysis to more than seven million listeners each day, a really staggering statistic. And of course its influence goes beyond mere numbers. As Tim Luckhurst, professor of journalism at Kent University says, “It is the only news outlet that Britain’s opinion formers wake up to”. And then there is the mission to entertain, which Evan does admirably as presenter of...
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Article 5 mins
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...analysis and repression, Freudian concepts have had a profound impact on literature. By introducing the concept of the unconscious mind, Freud radically transformed writer’s understanding of their craft, inspiring the creation of psychologically complex and layered characters. Freud’s influence became foundational to modernist and postmodernist literature, opening new...
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Article 45 mins
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...analysis in lived experience is a good place to start...Work and mental health: 5 A vision for employment support - In the next activity, you will examine how we as a society might need to reconsider work. This is especially important following the COVID-19 lockdowns, in which many people had to work from home and others, particularly in the health care sector, endured a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
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Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...analysis focusing on acts of citizenship is not simply about the participation of actors whose status is already settled within a pre-existing political sphere. Rather it is about the very re-constitution of politics and citizenship through struggles that trouble existing maps of Europe. Interview with Vicki Squire...Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT): 2.4 Claims by...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs