1,925 search results
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...technology (internet connection, phone signal, devices) working well for the duration of the interview. Whether the interview is face-to-face or not, you need to establish an environment conducive for interview. Try to make sure you have a quiet space and are unlikely to be interrupted. You may want to ask participants to switch their phones to silent with you to prevent...
View course Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...technology in order to explore the possibility that younger children have a partial understanding of ToM. Another example of an alternative ToM task is based on a task battery developed by Tiffany Hutchins, Patricia Prelock and Wendy Chace (2008). Rather than a single false belief task with a simple right or wrong answer, this battery presents children with a series of...
View course Making sense of ourselves
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...technology. In fact, perceptions of risk are not based solely on quantitative measures but also include subjective value judgements. An individual’s perception is influenced by the degree to which the risk is imposed upon them rather than accepted voluntarily, their knowledge of the problem, their trust in the ‘management’ of the risk, and so on. The net result is...
View course Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...education, and those living in urban environments. In the USA it is more common amongst young black people (Blazer et al., 1991), and there is evidence that it is more common in countries in which there is war or political oppression than in countries at peace (Compton et al., 1991). [Described image] Figure 11 Chronic worry and anxiety characterise GAD. Why might GAD be...
View course Emotions and emotional disorders
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...education plays a key role in providing people with the knowledge of what constitutes a healthy diet, but as is so often the way with science, the information keeps changing. The information about what we should be eating comes from various sources: in the UK a large amount of data was collected and published by COMA, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy...
View course Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...educated accent, though with few and wandering aspirates in it. Him I visited every morning to buy for my breakfast one of those Spanish melons which they have everywhere in England, and which put our native cantaloupes to shame; and we always fell into a little talk over our transaction of fourpence or sixpence, as the case might be. After I had confided that I was an...
View article Nine days' wonder in York
Article 10 mins
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...education authority was prosecuted for not having produced written risk assessments. For field-work, the Boy Scout motto ‘Be prepared’ is important, as one of the major hazards is inclement or changeable weather. One may start up a mountain in bright sunshine, but the weather can quickly change to a blizzard; this can result in a dangerous situation because of loss of...
View course Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...educated and was having a considerably easier time of things if you like. And so, I then could take this as this is only London this is happening, speculate about other, say, urban environments in Europe, and also connect this up with the general issues around globalisation and migration that are taking place. So, for example, somebody from Colombia is specifically from...
View course Language in the real world
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs