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Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...researchers. I love those, because it was more senior colleagues taking time for me when I was beginning my career that got me to where I am today... including to Mars! Right after a late lunch, though, my favourite part of the week starts, as I am on the operations team for today’s rover planning – rover, which rover? The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity....
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...researched over many years, looking at four countries and four areas in particular and you allude to one of these which is the Hanford site in the United States. The Hanford site has fascinated me for more than twenty-five years now. I visited it several times. I've talked to the people there, particularly those involved with the site itself. It’s a very peripheral...
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Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...research. So you can imagine the different people on that committee going different ways on those two conditions. One may say “competent to teach ethics”, and the other might say “no, not at all”. So you can imagine when you take the votes they’ll be a majority but not unanimity in favour of this person actually being competent to teach ethics, a different...
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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...research on how decisions are made...Introducing environmental decision making: 1.3 Decision making and policy making - Decision making is such an integral part of most people’s everyday lives that it is sometimes difficult to tell where decision making starts and ends. An activity closely allied to decision making, yet different, is policy making. Policies are plans,...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...research and theoretical ideas user and care knowledge and perspectives gained from experience. Activity 2 Exploring knowledge Timing: Allow 15 minutes to complete Ecological perspective Look at this example of theoretical knowledge: The ecological perspective… has become very influential in social work since its integration in the Framework for the Assessment of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...Research in Scotland revealed that families with a disabled adult are nearly twice as likely to be in poverty as others (Kenway et al., 2015). A factor contributing to the risk of poverty that disabled people face is the extra costs they incur in most areas of their everyday life due to their additional needs. Experiences of poverty can also vary depending on a person’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...research, accident and empathy. Narrator Here, writers discuss how they develop their fictional characters using a mixture of methodical research, accident and empathy. The speakers are Tim Pears, Monique Roffey, Alex Garland and Louis de Bernie`res. Tim Pears My first book was written from the point of view of a 13-year-old girl, and I never felt when I was writing it...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...researcher's tape recorder, the monkeys scan the skies, whilst when a leopard call is played, they climb a tree (Seyfarth et al., 1980). Thus quite different associations are being evoked in the vervet brain. But in this course, the vervet monkey example will mainly be used as an illustration of how different human language is from the communication system of any other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs