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Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers

...skills or planning. Laurie Taylor: Now for this paper, the one you were doing this work on – skydiving – I mean you went parachuting yourself, just tell me a little bit about either your own fears and concerns about that or the feeling of jumping out of a plane? James Hardie-Bick: Well I think fears and concerns are definitely the right words to describe it. After the...
The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982

...skilled’ engineering, with women based in production assembly (for more, see McIvor, 2014). At the factory’s peak, 75 per cent of all workers were women working in assembly. [For Let / May Sell: An uncared-for building that was part of the Plessey Complex – now the Whiteside Industrial Estate. ] For Let / May Sell: An uncared-for building that was part of the...
‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982
Society, Politics & Law

‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982

...skilled male identity and economic restructuring in the West of Scotland since the 1960s’ pp.151-169 in Labor History (61:2), 2020, p.154. Strangleman, T., Rhodes, J. and Linkon, S. ‘Introduction to Crumbling Cultures: Deindustrialization, Class, and Memory’ pp.7-22 in International Labour and Working Class History (84), 2013. Tomlinson, J. ‘De-industrialization...
Wellbeing for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing for Work

...skills and knowledge towards or enhancing current employment experiences or preparing for new roles or positions...Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, working practices have significantly changed for most people. Many are working from home and there is a blurring of the edges around where work starts and ends and where home starts and ends. At the same time, juggling...
FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT

...skills reduces anxiety to a manageable level and increases confidence in managing one's own responses, making future feared situations easier to face.] Edward’s Trauma Cycle (Edwards, 2024) can be a useful trauma‑informed tool within CBT. It can help practitioners understand how: Unresolved FGM trauma continues to influence a survivor’s thoughts, emotions, and...
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand and use the following terms: boxplots, box, whisker, upper and lower adjacent values, rate, time series, line plot demonstrate an awareness of the idea that the general pattern of a set of data, in terms of location, dispersion and skewness, can be graphically represented in a boxplot understand that boxplots can be...
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...studies in management accounting. You will learn that to distinguish between fixed costs and variable costs allows for a range of important decisions in any business. An understanding of basic cost behaviour is essential to the work of management accountants. In the final section you will look at the concept of environmental management accounting and analyse the impact of...
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...study in Arts and Humanities...Continuing classical Latin: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of the general differences between spoken and written languages demonstrate an awareness of how spoken Latin developed into the later Romance languages demonstrate an awareness of some early Latin forms of words, as...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs