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Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...history: Marie Curie faced multiple rejections before winning Nobel Prizes. Resilience is not about avoiding setbacks but using them as fuel for persistence. Albert Einstein described failure as ‘success in progress’, a phrase that encapsulates the idea that failure is not the opposite of success but rather a stepping stone toward it. Psychological theories also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...family member’, which is a stressful event. Given that these colleagues completed the inventory during the COVID-19 global pandemic it was not surprising that both had a ‘change in work hours or conditions’ and ‘change in number of family get together’. Colleague B scored 145 and noted ‘Marital separation’ was a significant stress for them. Both had scores...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...history of digital humanities, discover how physical objects can be made readable by computers through digitisation, understand the meaning of metadata and its importance for search engines, and reflect on doing research with born-digital data. When you think of doing research in the humanities, what comes to mind? Searching through documents in an archive, reading rare...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...history of the world. (Stendhal, Racine and Shakespeare, 1825; 1962 edn, p. 144) This course looks at a period of 50 years or so during which European culture underwent one of the most profound and far-reaching changes in its history. This occurred against a background of political and social turmoil and transformation equally unprecedented, marked by revolution, war and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...history of rivalry, and resistance to Rome’s might. Was it possible for these cultural and political differences to be worked out? How far could the peoples of North Africa come to identify with a Roman life-style? And in Judaea, Jewish religious traditions, Greek secular culture and Roman officialdom reveal just how culturally complicated the Roman Empire could be....
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...history. It is considered to be one of the major innovations of the Treaty of Lisbon and enables one million EU citizens to call directly on the European Commission to propose legislation of interest to them in an area of EU competence.’ (http://www.citizens-initiative.eu/) Non-EU bodies such as the Council of Europe (CoE) also stress the importance of active...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...history, expeditions and science documentaries in some of the wildest and most remote places on our planet, particularly the polar zones working for the BBC, Discovery, National Geographic and many others, filming for series like The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Human Planet, Frozen Planet, Ocean Giants and Operation Iceberg. His photographic awards include seven Emmy’s...
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Video 35 mins
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...family interactions. Lack of support from friends and family or mixing with people who are not physically active is a fundamental barrier to become inactive as this isn't seen as usual behaviour within the individual social group. And finally are environmental correlates, such as cycle paths and weather conditions. Poor access to places in which to be active is a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs