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An Untimely Death on Passchendaele Ward
Health, Sports & Psychology

An Untimely Death on Passchendaele Ward

...workings of the ward, and decide it's time to leave. Scene 6: Where's Nurse Moking? Gus, the unit manager, discusses the incident with Nurse O'Render. Nurse Moking is no-where to be found.They prepare for the the Mental Health Act Commissioner's visit. Scene 7: The Truth About Medication Nurse O'Render confides in Maria and Deidre what happened to Nurse Moking. She needs...
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Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...Works website, where you can download and customise these materials to use in your own teaching or staff development. Contents Gaelic as a national language of Scotland Here you will learn how Gaelic sits alongside Scots and English as one of Scotland’s national languages. For example, by exploring the origin of place-names, you will learn about the influence of Gaelic...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...work on these issues begins with a supplementary reading. It is a classic statement on the nature of modern Europe. The short extract by Hugh Seton-Watson raises two basic questions. What is Europe? Where is Europe? Professor Seton-Watson was an eminent historian and directed the London School of Slavonic and East European Studies; thus he approaches European issues from...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb
Money & Business

Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb

...work in practice. The challenge for most marketers is nearer to home; addressing the increase in consumer-to-consumer communication about brands and products, which takes the power from the brand manager and, thanks to social media, gives voice to consumers and other third parties. An increasing worry for many in this age of digital advancements is personal privacy. How...
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Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...work, determining how people react to situations, and, more than that, the kind of situations they get themselves into in the first place. This is why personality seems to become stronger as we get older; when we are young, our situation reflects external factors such as the social and family environment we were born into. As we grow older, we are more and more reaping...
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Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...work that would be involved in a study like this. You would have to take a large group of people and measure each of these factors every day of the year. You would then need to assess the relative contributions of each factor in the equation to feeling a bit low. An equation might look good, but any psychologist doing research will tell you that unfortunately neither...
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United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool
Society, Politics & Law

United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool

...working-class children swimming for almost 100 years; Nicola Fisher, a local teacher who lived on Calder Street who had used the slipper baths for a hot bath for many years before internal bathrooms were installed into her tenement; Jean Adair, a daily swimmer and receptionist at the local Health Centre who attended the pool twice weekly for over 30 year with her disabled...
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Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...work in a place with no phone or internet access. My letters to him were therefore vital. In an odd way, losing Alan has given me gifts. I am more empathetic and less driven than I was. I try to appreciate the simpler things in life each day. What also helped was that some people gave me gifts. They meant the world to me. One friend gave me a tiny book called The Gift of...
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