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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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Article 15 mins
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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George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...become a highly symbolic cause celebre for idealistic left-wing sympathisers from outside Spain. Orwell travelled to Spain as a journalist at the end of 1936. On arrival, however, he enlisted in an Independent Labour Party Republican unit and was sent to fight on the relatively quiet Aragon Front. He fought in Spain for six months before being badly wounded by a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...become ever more important. On top of this, the reasons behind attacks are becoming more diverse – ranging from financial gains and retaliations through to influencing political campaigns and disabling infrastructure. Anyone can be a victim of cyber-attacks. In this course, you’ll look at cyber security from the perspective of a computer user. Through a set of case...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 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
Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...becoming increasingly reliant on Facebook? Do users even care that they’re being fed stories from sites of ill repute? Read at NiemanLabs: Algorithms are now controlling Facebook’s Trending topics. What does that mean for news? Update - 31st August 2016: The robots aren't in control In a piece for Slate, Will Oremus has contacted Facebook and discovered that it's not...
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Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...becoming more and more important in making our shows and that extends right up into the blue chip, expensive, glossy programmes, both because we have so much of it now, every series we make, particularly the big series, Frozen Planet, Life and so on, they generate a huge amount of rushes, most of which is extremely good quality, but you can only use an hour and you might...
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Video 30 mins