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Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...change things (Holman Jones, 2005, p. 763). Storytelling becomes a form of resistance. Patricia Hill Collins speaks of the ‘outsider-within’ status of Black women in institutions, a position that grants unique insight into how systems function (and fail) for those they were not designed to serve (Collins, 1986). As Black mothers raising autistic children, Claire and I...
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Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...change with the seasons, how the smells meet your nose, or how the temperature feels on your skin. Really appreciate being part of that particular moment. Five reasons to care about mindfulness From the video, you will have learned that mindfulness is about focusing on the present moment and accepting your feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations. It is something that we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...changing environments. In the term ‘eco crime’, we see these meanings combined with those of ‘crime’, which originates from crimen (to accuse, injure, harm –Pavlich, 2000), to create a term which describes the injuries or harms to habitat (Walters, 2010a). Key features of Green Criminology Focuses on eco crimes – harms to humans, non-humans and the natural...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...change seems to align to some extent with the update to the DSM − although DSM-5 does not include a diagnostic category for MADD, 'the specifier "with anxious distress" has been added to depressive and bipolar disorders, and thus patients presenting with co-morbid, subsyndromal, equally important anxiety and depressive symptoms may be coded to be suffering from "Other...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...changed since the last time you noticed them – maybe the wall colour has faded. Some things will not be quite as you thought they were – maybe you didn't remember the door handle being made of metal. It is useful to do this sort of perceptual exercise at regular intervals. In this way you will revive the way you see the world – by de-familiarising your perceptions...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Mathematics for science and technology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...change to scientific notation, you have to move it 2 places to the left, and this gives 10 to the power +2, and hence 2.15 × 102. Similarly for (c) 152. × 103 (writing in the decimal point). It has to move 2 places to the left to be behind the first non-zero digit, the 2, and so the power of 10 increases by 2 to give 1.52 × 105. In (d) you have to move the decimal...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...change the group rules? You can have a discussion in the group about it, but you should lead it. If you end up going down the rabbit hole of people saying, why did you delete my post? And then you try and explain it and then say, ah, but you’re not allowing free speech. And you know, it can just get a bit unpleasant. So I’d have that as a policy. I wouldn’t be too...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...changes the speed of a reaction. Those who work with young people often need to act at the interface between the young person and the opportunities that are available for their personal and social development. In simpler terms, we can say that the worker as catalyst ‘makes things happen’, providing stimulus, challenges and opportunities. Issues: Acting as a catalyst...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs