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Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?

...courses and qualifications. Over the last 50 years the interest in extreme sports has increased significantly, with risk-taking behaviour in sport being used to describe engagement in high-risk leisure activities such as skiing and skydiving which tend to be characterised as activities that involve hazards (Jones et al, 2015). These are no longer niche pursuits shrouded...
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The role sustainable chemistry plays in shaping the planet's future
Science, Maths & Technology

The role sustainable chemistry plays in shaping the planet's future

...courses. Sustainable use of resources must be considered because fossil fuels and other mined commodities are being depleted, and there is increasing demand from humanity. Achieving sustainability involves many challenges, from preserving resources to tackling pollution arising from plastics, persistent organic pollutants and gaseous emissions. These pollutants are...
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'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...courses and qualifications. 1969 was the year that a human first landed on the moon. It was also the year that I first saw a Black person on the telly. Both events were equally stellar for me. I was allowed to stay up late, even though it was a school night (I was only seven), to watch the grainy but miraculous pictures on our small black and white TV. It was a huge event...
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When Edward met Bertha: Mental Health, Colonialism, Race and Patriarchy in Jane Eyre
History & The Arts

When Edward met Bertha: Mental Health, Colonialism, Race and Patriarchy in Jane Eyre

...course’ she had been ‘shut up’ as she had been declared ‘mad’. Hearing the story of his sufferings, Jane has every pity for her ‘hero’. However, he has quite a track record himself. There is clearly one rule for rich, white, male Edward, and quite another for Bertha Mason. Edward is a man and he has money and power. It is his narrative which Jane relates, as...
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Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...course on Cybersecurity: Chelsea Manning (born Bradley Manning) was a United States Army soldier who leaked confidential information, including 250,000 United States diplomatic messages and 500,000 United States Army reports as well as videos of military action in Iraq, to the WikiLeaks website. Manning obtained copies of classified materials during service in Iraq in...
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Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers

...courses and qualifications. [A sky diver's eye view] Laurie Taylor: As a teenager I had a few goes on the Grand National at Blackpool, but my most daring fairground ride was always Wallis’s Wonder Waltzer. Do you remember the Waltzer? It was those egg-shaped carriages holding up to half-a-dozen people, and the chrome rail that was lowered into your lap, and then the...
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What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...course of action from a list of options will be asked to choose most and least effective answer; or rate possible answers for effectiveness; or choose one most practical course of action, so must read the instructions carefully! commonly used for many job roles, even at entry-level, sometimes within the online application form/process itself Personality tests evaluates...
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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil. London. Random House Pierre, J. (2013) The Predicaments of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race, Chicago. Chicago University Press Phillips, C; Earle, R.; Parma, A. and Smith, D. (2019) ‘Dear British criminology: Where has all the race and racism gone?’, Theoretical Criminology, on-line first:...
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