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Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...Adults Assessing and supporting the support and care needs of older people in the community. Assessing and supporting the care needs of adults with physical and/or learning disabilities in the community. Assessing and supporting the care needs of adults with mental health problems in the community. Working in residential care homes ......
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Valuing death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death

...Care qualifications. Death is part of life and is something we all need to face; not only our own death, but the deaths of those around us. Yet many of us are unprepared for this major event in our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed us all to more deaths. However, those deaths were likely to be in hospital with few, if any, family or friends close by. In this first...
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Article 5 mins
One minute methods - sampling
Health, Sports & Psychology

One minute methods - sampling

Like the babies in Laura Schultz’s experiments, discover why researchers take care over the generalisations they make. ...Transcript.
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Video 5 mins
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...care for a tree as well as tell stories about its growth over time. The prototype consists of two boxes, one for jewellery and the other for memories. The jewellery contains bio-sensing devices and can be placed anywhere on the body, where it produces haptic and sonic effects based on the signals it receives from sensors attached to the tree, which are in turn responding...
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Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...care interventions at all levels of the organisation. Over six episodes you will see staff working within highly stressed environments – often having to manage resource demands that don’t stretch sufficiently to accommodate all needs; you will meet patients – many with complex care needs who are faced with uncertainty about treatment; you will see staff frustrated...
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Article 10 mins
Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?
Money & Business

Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?

...care and support. They had been getting by with support from friends or voluntary organisations that operate in Spain. However, since the EU referendum, their lives have become fragile and uncertain. Health and pensions By and large the main concern for these pensioners is healthcare and whether they will still be able to access free healthcare once the UK leaves the EU....
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Methods in Motion: The middle children
Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...adults, and can involve conversations that are sensitive or tricky to navigate. Creative methods formed an important part of my study Child Language Brokering: Spaces of Belonging and Mediators of Cultural Knowledge (funded by the AHRC under the Translating Cultures Innovation Pathway). In conjunction with more traditional social science methods, it aimed to provide new...
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How can your accent put your life at risk?
Languages

How can your accent put your life at risk?

...adult NESB migrants here at Macquarie University, we have met highly qualified job applicants whose skills were obscured by their accents; capable and diligent students who were considered lazy and poorly motivated on the basis of their English expression; or consumers who did not manage to return faulty products within the warranty period because shop assistants...
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