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Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...et al., 2018)...Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?: 3 Benefits of the Body Mass Index - Quantitative research is particularly useful for studying whole populations and identifying general trends and relationships because it makes use of statistical data. The results of large-scale, quantitative studies are frequently summarised in documents like...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...et al. (2013) surveyed prisoners and found that those who were re-offenders (who have offended more than once) scored more highly on the P scale and were lower on the E and N scale compared to those who were first-time offenders. Boduszek et al. (2013) found that violent offenders scored more highly on the P scale. These studies seem to suggest there is some evidence that...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...et al. (2014) remind us that there can often be much higher concentrations of bacteria within an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) setting than outside and of course world events such as the pandemic caused by COVID-19 has led to a renewed interest in using the outdoors as a protective factor against spreading disease. Research offers evidence in several areas...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education

...et al., 2017). It sets out ‘Employment quality’ and ‘Work-life balance’ as two of the aspects of ‘good work’. As part of creating healthy workspaces, employers who are aware of the strains everyday life can place upon their paid employees can help by establishing clear policies for how common stressful situations may be contractually handled by the employer....
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Article 5 mins
What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
Education & Development

What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?

...et al., 2009 Policies and educational resources for reducing cases of academic malpractice, as well as increasing effective writing skills in digital contexts, are critical for educational institutions, the publishing industry and the media. A key issue is how to prevent fraud, especially copyright violations, in order to ensure quality assurance with integrity. To foster...
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Article 5 mins
The challenge of invasive alien species
Nature & Environment

The challenge of invasive alien species

...et al. (2011) Invasion triangle: an organisational framework for species invasion. Ecology and Evolution 1(4): 610-625]. This shows invasion as being dependent upon three characteristics: (1) attributes of the potential invader i.e. how competitive the invader is; (2) biotic characteristics of the potentially invaded site; i.e. describing how vulnerable the site is for...
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Article 10 mins
A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...et al.’s (2017) ‘Narrative/meaning making model’ has shown how the themes covered in the film, if guided by the family, can become a helpful framework for sharing their lived experience of organ donation and the bereavement journey. Developing a shared narrative surrounding this experience can bring understanding to what individuals went through and to make sense of...
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Video 15 mins
The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...et al, 2015 This is not merely a story about carbon emissions (the driver of the greenhouse effect, and therefore global heating), but about all the ways in which our economy interacts with the earth, it extracts and transforms energy and matter to produce the things we need (and, more unsustainably, want). The earth can only sustainably reproduce about 7 tonnes of...
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Article 5 mins