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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...
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Life after sport: giving back
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life after sport: giving back

...OU have teamed up with Abertay University to produce a really valuable piece of work, first of all acknowledging that athletes go through many phases in their career. When you are on the outside looking in it is not always easy to see it. Retirement is hard for athletes who have dedicated often many years of their childhood and life to the sport so for them to understand...
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How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful

...OU and The Parks Trust https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care-social-work/keep-me-walking-people-living-dementia-and-outdoor-environments Vseteckova J, Dadova K, Gracia R, Ryan G, Borgstrom E, Abington J, Deepak - Gopinath M, Pappas Y (2020) Barriers and facilitators to adherence to walking group exercise in older people living with dementia...
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Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...become aquatic to some extent, such as the river and sea otters [pp. 185-188] that were one of the highlights of the TV programme 'Return to the Water'. The suborder Pinnipedia The name of this suborder comes from a Latin word meaning 'wing-footed', which refers to the modification of limbs into flippers. Most pinnipeds move onto the land from time to time to rest and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...becoming increasingly complex and the roles demand high levels of knowledge and skills in practitioners and leaders. Aubrey (2018) uses the phrase ‘distributed leadership’, supporting the idea that early years provision is too demanding to be met exclusively by any one person. This suggests again that each member of the whole team, to a greater or lesser extent, has a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...become associated with a particular approach to the study of the interactions among living organisms, an approach that concentrates on energy and material exchanges. However, it is also used more colloquially to refer to any area or grouping of organisms that can be regarded as functionally interdependent. An ecosystem in this sense can be of any size, from an isolated...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
General principles of cellular communication
Science, Maths & Technology

General principles of cellular communication

...become an extrinsic stimulus. When this happens they could also be considered a first messenger too. We will avoid use of terms such as first or second messengers, and instead consider cellular communication pathways as sequential chains of interacting components. To understand information flow through signalling pathways, the components are usually considered to be...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...become sufficiently numerous to support an increase in the population of predators. Their hunting success on such a grand scale may eventually lead to a fall in numbers of prey (the blue line falls after a peak) which, after a lag period, in turn leads to a fall in predator numbers, after which the cyclical pattern may be repeated. [Figure 2] Figure 2: adapted from...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs