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Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...students who are both new to statistics, and new to the software package SPSS. For many students statistics represent an area that they are concerned about, either because they have had little experience of statistics before, or due to concerns over the mathematics that might be involved. These interactive videos are designed to help you familiarise yourself with the...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...become obese in this country. And we really need to make sure that all our children are active to try to avoid some of those complications. And, of course, everybody who's connected with children has a role to play. Parents' input is vital. And you and your role and me and mine can support families to help their children to be active, particularly perhaps where children...
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...becoming increasingly important globally because of the impact of climate change. Using economic theory, you will explore why market forces alone typically cannot resolve the problems associated with flooding, creating a rationale for government intervention. You will then see how a key tool of economics, cost-benefit analysis, can be applied to assess and weigh the net...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...becoming more demanding. Her depression required hospitalisation. ‘Work had always been really important to me and I’m more like a perfectionist. So everything has to be a 100%, you know, and all that. And I got made promotion several times with my job, and then suddenly, I think like many companies, people started making people redundant, and requesting people to...
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...becomes possible to identify a focus for positive forms of Black leadership in the future...Week 1: Understanding power and its effects: 2.1 Power over movement - Crucial to a person’s freedom is how easy or otherwise it is to move around space. Being able to move easily and affordably creates options for work and leisure. It is perhaps no surprise, then, that transport...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...becomes clear. Because of its vital role in quality control, David Lane nicknamed p53 ‘the guardian of the genome’. The gene itself is disabled by mutation or some other faulty mechanism in almost every case of human cancer. Most often this corruption of p53 occurs spontaneously in individual cells or tissues that have sustained some damage in the rough and tumble of...
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...become ‘the national environment’? [Described image] Figure 1 The environment? A single tree in a field, a wooded area, the European area or the entire Earth Scale issues apart, the phrase ‘the environment’ also presents significant issues in terms of who is using the term and in what way. Is ‘the environment’ of one person the same as ‘the environment’ of...
Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...ou could probably look at both the change in your social and the physical environment. You’ve got clean air, you’ve got these beautiful views and so on. As a psychologist we would probably try and find a way of teasing out the variables. I can think of a study where people were comparing two hospital wards, one of which looked out on to a man-made environment the...