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Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...study in Arts and Humanities...Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the wide range of methods of promoting health, preventing disease and providing care that were available to patients of different social groups and classes demonstrate an awareness of the inequalities of services –...
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...studying this course, you should be able to: present some basic theory of FEA introduce the general procedures that are necessary to carry out an analysis present basic information that is necessary for the safe use of FEA...Introduction to finite element analysis: 1 Finite element analysis - In this section we will introduce the finite element method; what it is; its...
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...studying this course, you should be able to: explain how the experience of mental health problems affect, and are affected by, employment understand how the recovery model can be used to support people with mental problems to return to work explain what can be done to reduce the barriers to employment for people with mental health problems...Work and mental health: 1...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...studies, the arts, spiritual and philosophical thought, literature, systems thinking and ecopsychology, all in the service of unpicking our collective and individual responses to the crisis, much of which is unacknowledged and unconscious. Climate Psychology aims to contribute by: Building understanding and support for individuals and groups Enabling transformation and...
Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?
History & The Arts

Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?

...studies today. Going mainstream Tangerine offers a chance to revisit these issues, and is receiving similar levels of attention. It is filmed on a super low budget using a $8 phone app that delivers a close up, social realist edge to a story that crosses the boundaries of drama and documentary. The script was co-crafted with the lead actors and draws on their own...
What is the zika virus?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the zika virus?

...study of the evolution of Zika virus concluded that it had probably emerged in east Africa in the early 20th century and spread to South-East Asia around the time of World War II. The Micronesian strain was clearly of Asian origin. Then, in 2013, a massive outbreak occurred in Polynesia, in the eastern end of the Pacific Ocean. With the arrival of the Zika virus on Easter...
Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture
Languages

Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture

...studying of French literature; but also the spoken word. I got a great deal out of my year abroad in France, I really loved it, and I became really a good speaker, but I was not very good at writing French, and that’s partly laziness, but I also sometimes wonder, is it because I have oral Bengali? And perhaps I’m quite good at communicating, but not actually...
Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?
Languages

Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?

...study English in their spare time too, away from school desks. As the seasoned journalist Beppe Severgnini recently said while commenting on Brexit for the Italian daily Corriere della Sera (Severgnini knows the UK like the back of his hand, having worked as a London correspondent first and for The Economist afterwards), “the English language doesn’t solely belong to...