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Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...Research Group, 2010)...Understanding depression and anxiety: 1.1 What do we mean by stress? - We tend to think of ‘stress’ as a state of demand that is likely to stretch us to breaking point, and hence as a bad thing, to be avoided. An image of stress this brings to mind is pulling on a chain with increasing force: sooner or later the chain will break at the weakest...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...researched ‘race’ and ethnicity...Race, ethnicity and crime: The US, Australia and the UK - The relationship between race and ethnicity and crime and criminology is characterised by conflict, dispute and contestation. The focus of explanatory concern for critical criminologists is the wider structural, cultural, political and historical contexts and divisions in which...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...research and family life. Fifty years after his discovery of mauve, he was knighted for his contribution to the British chemical industry. His achievement was not just the discovery of the dye but its development and exploitation. Perkin showed that: Chemical research can give rise to useful and valuable materials. It’s possible to produce specialised chemicals on a...
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Article 10 mins
Exploring the icy moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the icy moons

...Research Fellow in AstrobiologyOU. His research focuses on the potential habitability of the deep oceans of the ice-covered moons of the outer solar system. He discussed his career path and work with Ann Grand, Lecturer in Astrobiology Education...‘Astrobiology’ isn’t a subject you can study at school. Can you tell me a little bit about your journey to astrobiology...
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Article 10 mins
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...centre of abolitionist thought. Placing people in prison to punish them for what they have done has been repeatedly proven NOT to work and, in fact, frequently stimulates rather than calms violence. If heightened public protection and reduction in violence and harm is what we hope to achieve – particularly for women, children and other vulnerable groups – then we...
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Article 12 mins
Panic buying and how to stop it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic buying and how to stop it

...children and family as well as personal needs and values. (Such as when to get up for work, when to get out of the house, when and how you pick up your children, which side of the bed you sleep in, and what brands you buy in your shopping). Norms are useful because they allow us to function without having to think too much about the reasons why we do things. Once a norm...
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Article 10 mins
Ageism and age discrimination
Society, Politics & Law

Ageism and age discrimination

...children's competition. The same sign is also used for disabled pedestrians. Many older people find this sign to be ageist. In 2020, the Centre for Ageing Better held a competition inviting designers to ‘rethink the symbols and icons commonly used in public to represent older age groups.’ The winning ‘dancing couple’ design was based on the UK traffic sign. [Image...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...researchers such as Brian Wynne and Alan Irwin. From your own experience, have you sensed that, in Miller's words, ‘a new age of public understanding of science’ has been entered? Bodmer's deficit model approach, though now largely superseded, put particular emphasis on imparting science information to the public. Part of the reason this model was increasingly...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs