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Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...becomes problematic when someone is not getting clinical benefit from a medicine, or the negative effects of treatment outweigh beneficial outcomes. The changes associated with ageing and polypharmacy increase the risk of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and worsening of chronic conditions. For example, reflex tachycardia is a mechanism to increase heart rate and blood...
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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...become public, with the help of Jennifer Douglas...‘All stories have structural underpinnings and material consequences. All stories are political’ (Rohrer, 2016). Positionality and insights As a mother of two autistic children living in the UK and an academic researcher, I – a Black cisgendered able-bodied woman – occupy a complex positionality that straddles the...
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Stress and Burnout in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and Burnout in Aviation

...becomes enjoyable because you've been under long-term constant stress” (Gould, 2012). Gould (2012) identifies 3 different types of stress: an internal source of stress – perfectionism, a personality factor that generates a constant stress to be perfect external sources of stress – e.g., commercial pressure, pressure to perform stemming from an over-bearing...
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Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...become much more involved with baby Mali. From a very tiny baby Mali hated being put down and would scream or cry unless she was being cuddled or sleeping. Her clingy behaviour was very wearing on the family. Ceri, who did a lot of the early caring, spent many hours cradling Mali in an attempt to calm her, while Siân was busy with Tomos. Mali now has a very close bond...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...become widely accepted that innovation is an important force in driving economic growth and creating various forms of value – as well as essential to the success or survival of any organisation, whether commercial or not – this issue takes on a far broader significance...Technological innovation: a resource-based view: 2.2 Innovation capabilities - There are competing...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...become of them both. Her letters express anxiety about having to do domestic work. She writes: ‘I have never enjoyed housework, it is not in my nature; please try to find me somewhere to work with children’. Both had learned English in school; they thought they would be safe in England, and could probably find work; if not they would try America again. They married in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...student of RSAMD who has gone on to become a major figure on the Scottish music and broadcasting scene. She now lives in Lochaber where she and her husband run Watercolour Music Studios. A traditional music background and a classical training coupled with 15 years’ experience working with the BBC has established her as a major figure in the Scottish music scene, equally...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...student, despite declaring my Irish nationality. ‘Accra, Ghana’ appears to have overridden the ‘Irish’ in the ‘Nationality’ box. And then the simplicity of the correction, my Whiteness restored, the fee reduced. The wages of Whiteness (Du Bois, 1935) is a useful concept here, but no one’s life is simply black and white. [A postage stamp of Gold Coast...
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