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Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...changes to a situation, to help in decision making and to help with quantitative model building. The course has a link to an animated tutorial that covers the purposes, elements and conventions of specific types of diagrams most widely used in systems studies. It also acts as a glossary of the major diagramming types used in systems work...Systems diagramming: 2 What is a...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...change the amount you spend each month and seeing if your budget can cope with the interest rate on your mortgage rising sharply (normally by assessing the impact of a 3% hike in the mortgage rate you pay). So ahead of talking to your lender there are some things you should do to help present your best financial profile to your lender: Check your credit files and ensure...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...changing our bodies? And furthermore, what role does society play in shaping both our bodies and our identities? These questions of individual-social and agency-structure dualisms form the basis of the next sub-section in which we consider the notion of the body as an ‘identity project’...The body: A phenomenological psychological perspective: 2.2 Body as ‘identity...
Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...changing my question from ‘subjects you’ve covered’ to ‘learning’, I’ve offered space for more personal, subjective details to inform an answer. The second important word that I’ve used is ‘significant’. First, this word asks the respondent to evaluate their learning. I’m not just asking for a list of topics now; I’m asking for your judgement as to...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...change quite radically. WOMAN 2 I was watching Fleabag recently, and she talks about how women's bodies are sites of pain from very early on. And I think we should celebrate the fact that we're kind of free from bleeding every month. And actually free from male sexual attention might not be such a bad thing. WOMAN I think if it was men that had periods instead of women, I...
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...change in policy or the breakdown of a crucial piece of equipment can derail months of progress. [An image of a face holding up a cartoon mask in front of their face.] Psychologists Lazarus and Folkman (1984) suggest that the way we appraise stressors – whether we see them as threats or as challenges – shapes our resilience. When we interpret a failed experiment as...
Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...change what we’re seeing to reflect it in every programme to say, ‘It’s going, it’s going, you’ve lost it, it’s going, half of this is gone, it’s dead,’ without just losing the audience. And I hope we can find a way, but I think the danger or the problem is, is that what people… It sounds banal, is that what people want to watch? People on one level do...
The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it
Society, Politics & Law

The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it

...change. For those who wanted to see progress in the political realm, merely condemning the violence could only take shared political aspirations so far. The idea of condemnation, by the late 1970s, would be joined by a desire on the part of many Irish Americans for an intervention, a role for the United States of America bringing an end to conflict while creating...