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Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...thinking advocates that those at the margins should hold the most power in the design process. Ceding power doesn’t necessarily exclude anyone who isn’t directly impacted by the problem but calls for aid to radically rethink ‘expert’ roles, recognise the ‘process as product,’ ceding power where necessary, and listening.’ (Oddy, 2021). Thinking about...
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Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...think and decide for ourselves what we want to do if we don’t want to lose the capacity in our vital organs. And we need to systematically / regularly exercise the functions we do not want to lose as we age (and these may be many). Following are the main Five Pillars of Ageing Well: nutrition, hydration, physical, social and cognitive stimulation. Note on Hydration...
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Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...think of a PhD as a new engagement with the psychology discipline, involving continuities from your previous study (for instance, in the emphasis on reading and academic writing) but a generally different experience and level of commitment (see Section 2). After studying psychology courses led by other people, you now want to work on your own project. Your previous study...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...think I can give perfect satisfaction and be the equal of any man in architecture, in the design of buildings public and private, or to conduct water from one place to another. I can carry out sculpture in marble, bronze, and clay; and in painting can do any kind of work as well as any man, whoever he be. Moreover, the bronze horse could be made that will be to the...
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Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...think: ‘I don't know anything’; ‘all that I know is boring’; ‘nobody would want to know what I know’ or ‘I know too much, how could I possibly get that down in words?’ Whatever your response, the aim of this course is to broaden the meaning of such advice, so it will act as a prompt the next time you hear it, reminding you that you have numerous ways of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...Think about a decision you made recently, whether at work or outside. What sources of evidence did you draw on in making that decision? Are these among the four sources of ‘best available’ evidence identified? Did you critically appraise the evidence in the way described above? If you did, how did you go about this? If not, what is your judgement now of the quality of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic
Society, Politics & Law

Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic

...think it really breaks new ground,” he says. “It shows that Canada is one of the greatest countries in world where you can integrate quickly into the mainstream and be all you can be.” Hussen will represent the York South-Weston, a heavily immigrant district of Toronto. Canada is home to an estimated 150,000 Somali Canadians. “For a community that's relatively new...
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The author at home
History & The Arts

The author at home

...thinking and writing about the history and the cultural work of the writer’s house museum for my latest book. The first writer’s house that admirers visited after he died in 1374 was Petrarch’s in Arqua, Italy. But what did these admirers hope to find? One of the earliest comments on the oddness of this impulse to visit dead authors at home is the elaborate...
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