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Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...health reasons for a prolonged period. We have to accept people onto our fellowships who've had a career break of two years or longer. Typically though, it can be five years, eight years, ten years or more. And they must have a first degree in a STEM discipline, at least three years research experience post first degree, and be a resident in the UK in order to be...
Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...health, under an exhausting disease, for more than two years together now looked at the approach of death with a steady cheerfulness such as very few men have been able to maintain for a few hours, though otherwise in the most perfect health. (Mossner and Ross, 1987, p.206) and later to Hume's literary executor, William Strahan (9 November 1776): His symptoms, however,...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...health, such as how much we exercise, how much energy we consume, how well we sleep at night, and so on. All these products have made more visible, and therefore allowed us to better manage, aspects of our life that might otherwise escape our attention even though they are important for our well-being. Importantly, because they blend in with the clothes we wear or the...
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...mental health issue, or a real deep underlying confidence issue, where you think, actually no, that is something that requires specialist input that needs to sit outside the coaching relationship. So you also have to have this ethicality about referring people on as and when needed, and adhering to professional standards. JEREMY HOWELL In my experience, what I think makes...
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...mental health, then training as a clinical psychologist. I specialised chiefly in learning disability where I suppose some of my other interests came together with my practice and my psychological interests to develop a much more social approach, and to focus very much on processes of oppression, liberation, mobilisation, development, and so on. Not individual focus...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...Health Service would be included. The very next day he said oh no it wouldn't be. Now is that a lie or what what is it. I mean it get it almost beyond belief. Tony Thorne In fact and I can't judge the truth of this of course. But the Washington Post and other US journalists have tried to count the number of lies that they claim that Donald Trump has told since he took...
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...health and everything else, it’s not this niche new thing, it’s now an issue that most people are globally aware of, but it’s also got its detractors and its critics, so they’re always quick to jump on any kind of inaccuracy, so I think in environmental filmmaking you need to be even more careful and stringent with your facts. Climate change: A BBC film that made...
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...health and safety at work, how to tackle discrimination and how to exercise their rights. They also need to understand the importance of employers and employees working together in partnership to improve performance. (Foreword to A Better Way to Work, TUC, 2003) The main objective of this subsection is to raise issues of the contemporary position and nature of...