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What is a Professional Doctorate?
Education & Development

What is a Professional Doctorate?

...et al. (2017, p. 38), who observe that: ‘Professional identity, for its part, is understood as a construction which is dynamic, multifaceted, culturally embedded, and continuously reshaped’. In this video, you can hear Dr Debbie Chagadama (Doctorate in Health and Social Care graduate) and Dr Pauline Lyseight-Jones (Doctorate in Education graduate) talk about their...
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From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...profile demonstration translated the English phrase: "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” into Russian and then back into English to produce: "the vodka is good, but the meat is rotten”. One of highest profile failures of this first wave of AI lay the perceptron. First unveiled in 1958, the perceptron was a novel form of computer hardware emulating...
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The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health

...profile, Fox News and CNN (American news outlets), and Bleacher Report (international news outlet specialising in sports and sports culture). A total of 87,714 user comments were collected from 29 posts covering the news and were analysed using the qualitative software, Leximancer. The findings illustrate how social media allows users to frame circumstances either...
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The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...style/people/behind-the-news-save-rural-ireland-campaigner-bernard-kearney-1.2138781 http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-battle-for-rural-ireland-is-worth-winning-31049237.html (Richard Curran, March 2015) http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-its-time-to-tackle-decline-in-rural-ireland-818388-Mar2013/ John Verling article MacEinri, P. (2013) Irish Emigration in an...
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Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?

...styles and candidness standing out in an age of polished, professionalised politics. “The problem isn’t Bernie Sanders is a crazy-pants cuckoo bird,” according to former Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart, “it’s that we’ve all become so accustomed to stage-managed, focus-driven candidates that authenticity comes across as lunacy”. Yet in one way, Corbyn and...
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Getting started with French 2
Languages

Getting started with French 2

...et pain bread and cheese Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 4 items in each list. Desserts glace ananas fromage et pain Match each of the previous list items with an item from the following list: a.pineapple b.Desserts c.ice cream d.bread and cheese The correct answers are: 1 = b, 2...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...profile of dozens of black nationalist groups who found support or made their bases in the area and in 1966 The Black Panthers were organising in the neighbourhood. The 1970s were the bottom for Harlem - those who could afford to flee did; those who remained mainly did so not through choice, but because of lack of other options. Attempts by the City of New York to return...
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Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...style which writers adopt to tell their narratives. Above all, in what follows, and in your own readings of fictional narratives, I want to stress the importance of always keeping in mind the question of why you think writers use particular narrative strategies. There are an infinite number of ways in which stories can be told; the choices made by individual writers of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs