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Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...social and family environment we were born into. As we grow older, we are more and more reaping the consequences of our own choices (living in places we ourselves have chosen, doing jobs that we were drawn to, surrounded by people like us whom we have sought out). Thus, personality differences that might have been very slight at birth become dramatic in later adulthood....
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...Social, which is the realm of everyday interaction – in the workplace, but also within families and neighbourhoods. Culture, which can mean through the arts, but also through traditions. Political, which can mean through the activity of political parties and activist groups, but also informally and more routinely, as people persuade one another of a certain view of the...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...social care. It enables us to build relationships with the people we care for and their families, develop relationships with people we work with and other professionals, provide clear information and carry out appropriate reporting and recording. From the time we get up to the time we go to sleep, we are communicating. We can have hundreds of moments in a day when we are...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...social and cultural contexts. The growing emphasis on leadership is based on the premise that effective leadership will mean improved outcomes for children’s care, learning and development. We take the view that leadership is the concern of all practitioners and not the exclusive domain of one individual, the designated leader. Stacey (2009) notes that while good...
World-Changing Women: Emily Davies
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Emily Davies

...social grounds. Some even believed that women’s bodies were so physically ill-suited to studying that it posed a risk to their mental and physical well-being. Excessive mental activity in women, especially during menstruation, was believed to cause acute weakness and weight loss, a condition described as ‘anorexia scolastica’. Emily Davies was born on 22 April 1830,...
Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute

...Social Sciences courses. Background[Lyn-Marie O'Hara outside the Unison offices in Glasgow.]Lyn-Marie outside the Unison Glasgow City branch office, Bell Street, Glasgow, September 2022Lyn-Marie O’Hara was one of the key figures in the long campaign by Unison members at Glasgow City Council for equal pay. As Mags McCarthy indicates in her article on the equal pay...
Tricky Topics in Nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Tricky Topics in Nursing

...social care environment where you work or study. 3. Observe: Observe a registered healthcare professional performing the procedure on a real patient. Compare your findings with theirs if appropriate. 4. Read: Proctor, J. and Rickards, E. (2020) How to perform chest auscultation and interpret the findings. Nursing Times; Vol:116(1), pp.23-26. Intramuscular injection An...
Research on young people with melanoma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Research on young people with melanoma

...Social Care courses and qualifications. The lives of young people matter; their experiences matter; their futures matter and their significant others matter. Below are two short podcasts. The first one explores challenges in ethical approval for the Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) with cancer project delivered to you by Professor Susanne Cruickshank, who is the Strategic...