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Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...de Silva, an anthropologist at Atlanta’s Emory College, tells me that in Japan, “The whole idea is that by one individual taking his or her life, so the honour is restored or the family member would be spared the shame.” “Other people’s evaluation adds an additional burden,” says Kim. A person’s shame could leak and stain those around them. Under past...
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...types you have engaged with in the last 24 hours. Why did you read them? Make a note of some texts that enabled you to: achieve a goal develop your knowledge participate in some kind of social interaction. Comment Your reflections might highlight how much reading you do for your own purposes each day. Some examples of reading to achieve a goal might include reading a...
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...types of interventions that are used to try to bring about good change. You may be surprised by the diversity of interventions!...Week 1: What is a development intervention?: 1 Complex contexts - Development actors live and work – as we all do – in complex and fast-changing contexts. You will start by thinking about context. Context includes the immediate environment...
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...De Paulo, 2006) which, it has been suggested, may be caused by a generalised suspicion resulting from their professions (Masip et al., 2005). In the next activity you can consider how your own responses might relate to these research findings. Activity 7 By looking at your own results from the detecting deception activity you can work out whether or not you a) displayed a...
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...de Coriolis (1792–1843) who pioneered the study of rotating frames of reference. The Coriolis acceleration The Coriolis acceleration arises in any situations when an object or body travels towards or away from the axis of a rotating frame of reference. The combination of rotation and distance from the axis results in a linear velocity, so if the distance changes the...
Advancing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...TYPE OF GASLIGHTING DEFINITION EXAMPLE Weaponising victimhood Oppressors claim the status of victimhood, inverting the claims of the truly oppressed to strengthen dominant power. Ruling Those in power introduce previously unspoken rules as it suits their purposes. They use such ruling to restrict meaningful access to spaces and participation. Exposing Corrupt...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...types of situations this week will be concentrating on. For this, it is important that you have a working knowledge of various units of measurement and the two different measurement systems used in the UK – The Système Internationale (SI) or International System, on which the metric system is based, and imperial. Both of these will be covered over the next two weeks,...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...type of kettle we’re interested in, where and when its purchased, and so forth. In contrast, choosing a value to summarise the location of a set of data is more straightforward. In this section, we will focus on the two most common measures of location: the median and the mean. The data gathered about the quantity of interest does not affect the way we calculate these...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs