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The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...research and members of the public who have all contributed to the content as well as to the success of the series. The Series establishes Participatory Public Engagement as the main vehicle for delivery and impact. This resource brings and translates the evidence to the lay people and enables them to make lifestyle choices that can make them live longer and healthier...
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Article 15 mins
Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...research highlighted that many organisations were contemplating actions that would potentially impact their employees’ wellbeing, job security and uncertainty about the future. Also, freezes on recruitment in some industries have created a disconnection between job seekers expectations for employment and employment availability. The increased precarity of employment,...
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Article 10 mins
Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why

...research shows it is equally distracting. Currently, UK drivers using a hand-held mobile phone can only be prosecuted if it can be proven that they were using it for an ‘interactive communicative function’ such as calling or texting. The change in the law closes this loophole, and makes it easier for distracted drivers to be prosecuted, fined £200, and given six...
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Article 5 mins
Selling Empire: Introduction
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Introduction

...research, marketing and publicity. In reality, it spent as much money on research as publicity, but it was the latter which lodged in the public mind. In its six-year life, it unleashed millions of posters, from a few gigantic billboard features, such as Highways of Empire (shown above, 1927), through cheap, reduced-size copies sent to thousands of schools and sold to the...
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Article 5 mins
The psychology of World Cup fans
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of World Cup fans

...research shows that when responding to criticism, it isn’t just what is said that matters – it’s who said it. This is because of something called the intergroup sensitivity effect. Generally, people are more tolerant of criticism from an ingroup member compared with an outgroup member because they feel ingroup members are trying to be constructive, whereas outgroup...
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Article 5 mins
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...researching or carrying out an experiment or collecting data making notes thinking over your ideas. Planning Planning your assignment involves: working out an appropriate and logical structure identifying what is relevant and what is not taking account of the word limit refining your ideas selecting appropriate evidence or quotations. Drafting This stage comprises a...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...centre, what do they need to know about data? Well, they need to have an understanding about what the business is talking about when it talks about machine learning and AI and rating models and all of those things. But they don't really need to know how to do it, and they don't need to know in depth of it. But that understanding is really good for them, because it'll help...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...researched in terms of people experiencing a traumatic event or a loss in their lives. Organisational psychologists have also noticed that this occurs within organisations when people are being made redundant during job restructuring and being one of the ‘lucky ones’ left behind. Research shows that it can be, and often is, as hard on those left behind as those who...
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Article 10 mins