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Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...technological and social change. News stories in the media are filled with warnings and fairly frequent dire predictions for the future. This is particularly true when the potential consequences appear to be both catastrophic and difficult to predict, such as nuclear accidents, pandemics, global warming and so on. Intense pressure is exerted on politicians and others,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...technological world we live in. Video 2 Systems thinking This activity has no feedback. The final two sections of this course are made up of two activities. Both activities should reinforce the notion of the organisation as a complex system...Commercial awareness: 7 Networks of interaction - The following activity will help you reveal your own network of interaction that...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...educational and behavioural difficulties but only if they come from socially disadvantaged backgrounds (Quinton and Rutter, 1976). It has proved more difficult to establish whether temperament does influence susceptibility to adverse experiences. Dunn and Kendrick (1982) have shown that an older child’s response to the arrival of a new sibling is systematically related...
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Article 15 mins
The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...educated many children whom he trained up to serve at the altar. He always gave till he had no more to bestow, and rejoiced to see himself poor, with Jesus Christ, knowing poverty and afflictions to be more profitable to him than riches and pleasures. The happy success of his labours cost him many persecutions." Saint Patrick's trials and tribulations in Ireland "A...
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Article 10 mins
Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...Education Academy and the content is released under the Creative Commons Licence. This OpenLearn course was updated with the help of Gini Harrison in July 2019. Course image: Thomas Galvez in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Licence . Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...education service in the early 1950s. My birth certificate from Ghana’s capital, Accra, has the words ‘Gold Coast’ crossed out in several places and Ghana handwritten in ink above it. Follow the money, as the saying goes. That golden thread of whiteness breaks, unexpectedly, when I complete the ‘place of birth’ part of the application form to register for a PhD...
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Video 30 mins
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...technology it has become relatively easy, as long as there is internet access, to find records of decisions made by a court. Lawyers rely on formal reports of cases – not newspaper reports –and these can be found in official law reports. The Scottish Council of Law Reporting, a company limited by guarantee, has been established by the Scottish legal profession to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...technology moved with time from the primary evaluation of single compounds in animal models, through organ baths to modern ultra high-throughput profiling of millions of compounds, the character and appearance of molecules evolved too. Such approaches may provide very many active compounds against the primary target; but to be an effective drug, the experimental molecule...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs