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The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...Think about how your environment has determined how you go about certain things, and even whether you go about them at all. Discussion Most of you will have woken up in a bed. While all humans sleep, their beds can look very different depending on their culture and climate. Your bed is a cultural construct. If you’re like me you were woken by an alarm clock. In the long...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...thinking from a deficit model to a strength-based one and has been reflected in informal approaches by coaches in sport (Hoare et al., 2023; Kimber et al., 2023). As a result, elements of neurodiversity which in the past were viewed as negative and not ‘normal’, can now be viewed as something to be championed and utilised. For example, an autistic person who may have...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms
Education & Development

Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms

...Thinking: ZPD for Teaching/Learning Habits of the Heart and Mind, her observations of teachers using classroom discussion showed to bring both opportunities and hindrances to ‘open-forum classroom discussions’. By this, I mean, Miller critiques that in ‘many classroom contexts, literature discussions cut-off students from their own responses… even teachers who...
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Article 5 mins
Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement

...think at this time of celebration Mo would have wanted it acknowledged that it wasn’t just the female political leaders who had a platform who helped to achieve this peace in a very male dominated environment but it was the unseen, quiet work of the women in the communities that was arguably the key to securing and maintaining peace on the streets of Northern Ireland,...
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Article 5 mins
Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking
Health, Sports & Psychology

Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking

...think of walking and outdoors: both are immensely beneficial for our physical and mental health and wellbeing. Both are also immensely beneficial for people who have a neurodegenerative condition such as a type of dementia. You can read more about the ageing brain here. Walking is a type of exercise suitable and beneficial for everyone, and being outdoors just increases...
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Article 15 mins
Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...think of the ‘T’ as ‘taking action’, so overall, ACT is about being open, aware and active – doing what matters, so that personal and working lives become more meaningful. Let’s explore this further... Open, aware and active So how could ACT help in our working lives? Importantly, ACT is not about reviewing your past to find hidden meaning and answers, nor...
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Article 10 mins
Remembering Gary Slapper
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Gary Slapper

...System written with David Kelly informed and educated generations of law students fast becoming a leading text on the subject and one of the books found on every law student’s bookshelf. He was always delighted to meet and spend time with students and Associate Lecturers often going the extra mile with advice and encouragement. Under Gary’s leadership the OU Law...
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Article 5 mins
What is the Minamata Convention on Mercury and what does it mean?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the Minamata Convention on Mercury and what does it mean?

...systems as well as lungs, kidneys, skin and eyes. Fetuses and young children are most susceptible, with studiesdocumenting mental retardation in a small proportion of children in fishing communities of countries such as Brazil and China. The Convention takes its name from the world’s worst mercury poisoning incident, which affected thousands of people who ate...
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Article 5 mins