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Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...intelligence’, which you will consider in a moment. The second aspect is something you may not be familiar with; it’s known as emotional regulation, which has an important role to play in communication. In fact, some argue that without this key ingredient it is difficult to influence others, be credible or even be successful. It’s an absolute certainty you will...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...intelligence. This, for me, made her an excellent person to be interviewed for this project, knowing that she had workplace experiences and insights that should not be lost but preserved for future generations of railway workers. This interview was conducted in July 2021. Background I joined the railway in 1977 as a cleaner at the Corkerhill depot, located on the Paisley...
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Article 10 mins
Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...intelligence community, that vote for policing is described as the “landmark event” - the “pivotal moment” in the new approach of the Provisional Movement; a confirmation that the war was over. There were, and still are, complicated, divisive issues to be resolved: The presence and role of MI5 in ‘national security’, housed in a headquarters at Palace Barracks...
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Article 5 mins
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...intelligence-based qualifying exam, known colloquially as the ‘quali’. The ‘quali’ classified children’s intelligence at age 11, as something fixed and entire educational futures were decided on the results of just one exam. With the introduction of comprehensive education, this was abolished and now every pupil had access to a post-primary education. This meant...
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Article 10 mins
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...intelligence, a multiplicity with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a herdsman. Your little intelligence, my brother, which you call ‘spirit’, is also an instrument of your body, a little instrument and toy of your great intelligence. You say T and you are proud of this word. But greater than this – although you will not believe in it – is your body and its...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...artificially. More recently we have discovered that the effect of isolating a medicinal compound from its parent plant may increase the number of side effects associated with that drug. The substances in plants that chemists wanted to eliminate from medicines can turn out to have a modulating effect on a herb's actions and are possibly beneficial. For example if...
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Article 10 mins
The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...artificial result of wartime circumstances; and when peace in 1815 was followed by economic down-turns in the late 1810s, it felt like these fears were being justified. However, this was followed by economic recovery in the early 1820s; and it was at this point that contemporaries were able to look back at the industrial progress of the previous fifty years and see it as...
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Article 10 mins
Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?

...artificial surfaces or poorer grass surfaces than men, which can increase the ACL injury rates (Braun, Wasterlain and Dragoo, 2013). Elite female footballers have also reported there is a culture and expectation of overtraining and high levels of pressure to play when not physically or psychologically fit. This can lead to behaviours which might increase the risk of...
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Article 5 mins