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What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?
Society, Politics & Law

What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?

...concept of trauma informed practice. ...For police officers and other emergency service workers, being trauma informed (TI) in their professional practice ensures the best outcomes from interactions with both members of the public and colleagues. But what does being TI in practice mean? This article will demonstrate that it is not a complicated or difficult concept. In...
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Introduction to analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to analysis

...concept of a least upper bound. Section 5 looks at how least upper bounds can be used to define arithmetic operations on the set of real numbers...This free course is an introduction to analysis which looks at real numbers and their properties, with a particular emphasis on inequalities. Section 1 starts by revising rational numbers and their decimal representations....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...concepts and words in your main topic. (3) Write down similar words to your key phrases. Use a thesaurus! (4) Use ‘and’ and ‘or’ functions. (5) Use advanced search options. Ann’s summary Transcript But how do you come up with those all-important keywords? Devyani, who is a PhD student in AstrobiologyOU, gave me a few thoughts. As a PhD student, she’s just been...
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Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...concepts I have set out with, the ‘rules’ do change. However stable they might seem, institutions are constantly changing. They come into being, mature, change – and they usually, if not always, come to an end. Their historical rise, decline and fall can be traced – though in some cases the perspective has to be exceedingly long term. The nation-state is one of...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta
Society, Politics & Law

Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta

...de na prìomh sgilean saoranachd is am fiosrachadh a dh’fheumar gus eadar-theachd a dhèanamh san t-saoghal agus e ag atharrachadh. Bidh e a’ sgrùdadh mar a nithear atharrachadh gu poilitigeach agus gu sòisealta le bhith a’ toirt seachad cùl-fhiosrachadh riatanach airson tòiseachadh, eisimpleirean de luchd-atharrachaidh brosnachail, comhairle air mar a bheirear...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...concept (the use of a research diary is discussed in Section 2). This helps you to understand the debates that underpinned your research and the struggles with critical decisions that you took along the way; in turn, it enables you to communicate this when writing your research project. It also demonstrates the logic of what has been done and how it has been...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...concepts from the related fields of science communication and engagement, focusing in particular on digital and information literacy skills (Holliman, 2011). By completing this course you should have a better understanding of how contemporary science progresses and how ‘cutting edge’ scientific knowledge circulates in the public sphere...Assessing contemporary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness
Health, Sports & Psychology

The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness

...concept of “self” and “the other” is able to distinguish between the two entities and, therefore, to recognize himself or herself in the reflection. The most interesting result arising from the confirmation of a consciousness of self is that, based on these results, other behavioral traits may be deduced such as, for example, empathy. In fact, the ability to...
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