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Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...research literature. This is when patients or service users search for organisations or individual health and social care workers using the Internet. Ryan et al. (2019) discussed this concept with some members of the public and there is evidence to suggest it can have both a positive and negative effect on the perceptions of an individual or organisation. For example,...
Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...Research engineer, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University Flight vehicles are mostly represented in the form of flying cars – as opposed to commercial aircraft – in Back to the Future II. Looking forward to 2045, commercial aviation is likely to have seen significant changes between now and then thanks to breakthroughs in several...
Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...research will resolve this contentious issue. ‘What are we trying to prove? Science is driven by research and the binary division between female and male. The current system for sports competition is based on two categories, male and female, but we must realise that the boundaries are not binary. We need to be careful and need to be inclusive. If we set a threshold for...
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...centre in the medulla of the brain. The intercostal muscles are located in the ribcage. They receive neuronal inputs from intercostal nerves that arise from the thoracic nerves of the spinal cord. The bronchi and bronchioles are also surrounded by smooth muscle cells that contract and dilate to regulate the amount of air that passes down to the alveoli. Activity 2...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...Centre for Mental Health, 2013). In this free course, Work and mental health, you will look at some of the ways in which employment affects mental health and what can be done to support people in finding and keeping work...Although being at work during periods of mental illness can be difficult for those with mental health problems, most people with these difficulties...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...researcher from Tübingen in Germany, Burkhard Pflug, who investigated the effect in his doctoral thesis and in subsequent studies during the 1970s. By systematically depriving depressed people of sleep, he confirmed that spending a single night awake could jolt them out of depression. Benedetti became interested in this idea as a young psychiatrist in the early 1990s....
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...children, it’s been shown in research that women disproportionately take on the burden of paid and unpaid labour. So this affects women both with and without children. So with women with children, obviously have the additional responsibility of childcare issues as well. But there’s the concern that this flexibility will make it easier for women to take on these...
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...children. You mustn't look at the parcels, Ivar. What are they? Ah, I daresay you would like to know. No, no – it's something nasty! Come, let us have a game! What shall we play at? Hide and seek? Yes, we'll play hide and seek. Bob shall hide first. Must I hide? Very well, I'll hide first. [She and the children laugh and shout and romp in and out of the room; at last...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs