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Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...managed by the senior investigating officer, or SIO who’s Lyndon Harris. The senior investigating officer leads on all major criminal investigations and has to make strategic and important decisions about the wider investigation, such as when to make arrests. Of course, there are many other officers involved in the investigation alongside this core team. For example,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...management of these populations demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of some of the enduring legacies of the past, both in terms of the language that is often mobilised to represent disadvantaged people and people living in poverty, and also the continuing presentation of certain groups as ‘problems’ to be managed...‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...management cloud security...Digital forensics: 2 What is forensic science? - At first sight, the answer to this question seems straightforward. The Higher Education Academy offers the following definition: Forensic science is the application of science to matters of law. (Higher Education Academy, 2010) A more careful examination, however, yields some extremely important...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster
Nature & Environment

The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster

...management and treatment. In particular, post-mortem and pathological studies were to be carried out to determine the causes of death. Cleaning Some of the materials and methods used for cleaning at the various centres proved to be unsuitable for emaciated and highly stressed birds. The process took far too long, the detergents caused irritation, and often oil stains were...
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Article 10 mins
Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...project, the Victoria Embankment, wasn't officially opened until July 1870. However, the works themselves were a great success; the cement built sewer system lasted well into the 20th Century - and had London's population not expanded so rapidly, the tunnels would probably still be happily carting sewage away from the City now. However, with many more people, and much...
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Article 10 mins
The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...project – or indeed any other party at all. A large number of the rejections appear to be students. Rachel O’Brien is also a student activist and a current student in Birmingham. She describes herself as “heavily critical of the Labour Party and their current policies – but not opposed to the party as a whole”, and has, like Craig, never been a member of another...
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Article 10 mins
Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...projected to appear in three volumes. He despairingly wrote to me: after weeding out the forests of rubbish, I believe it will make only one decent volume. At that time he was direly beset with visitations more terrible than the normal poverty of authors. A little before I knew him he had come one morning to my friend Hill, wet and shivering, having slept under a hayrick...
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Article 10 mins
Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...project’ the feelings onto others (‘it's them that are aggressive, not me!’) or to displace it onto other targets (instead of telling the boss what we think, kick the cat when we get home). Freud certainly changed the way not only psychologists but our culture in general think about what it is to be a person. But whether Freud’s ideas are right or not is an...
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Article 10 mins