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Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...become confused about the differences between feedback and coaching, and often mix these techniques. This can sometimes be confusing and demotivating for both parties and may not lead to change. In addition, the behaviour or issue identified may keep reoccurring (the feedback advice does not seem to be working) or seems to be part of a larger developmental issue. Consider...
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Tubman: The Moses of Her People
History & The Arts

Tubman: The Moses of Her People

...become a rescuer of slaves, what did she contribute to the movement against slavery, and how should we see her today? Tubman was born around 1820, at a time when the United States were already deeply divided about slavery. The southern states made extensive use of slaves, and were defiant about keeping them. The northern states did not have slavery, but they were...
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Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...becomes part of a complicated labyrinth with other texts (Orr, 2011) – this practice of citation is a form of respectful acknowledgement. It acknowledges the contribution to knowledge that others have made and reflects the extent to which academic ideas are not shaped in splendid isolation but are always based on and emerge through interaction with others. It is not...
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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...become all too obvious in the Colston 4 case (R v Graham & Ors [2022] Bristol Crown Ct (unreported). A few newspaper headlines are included in the presentation which illustrate how, for some, the case was interpreted. Debates on talk radio at the time centred on the erasing of history, the reality of our history, and the positives to be garnered from empire and...
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Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...become Director of Development for the Natural History Unit. In 2002 he co-presented ‘Going Ape’, a film that took Alastair to the Ivory Coast in Africa. He has produced ‘Deep Blue’, a cinematic movie of the world’s oceans and he was one of the presenters and Executive Producer of the innovative live broadcast ‘Live from the Abyss’. He was Series Producer...
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What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...become two new ones with identical genetic material, the DNA in each chromosome must undergo a process in which an identical copy is made. As noted above, Watson and Crick postulated that DNA base-pairing provides a mechanism by which the DNA might be copied (see Figure 5). This DNA copying mechanism, usually referred to as DNA replication, is the process we consider...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...become deer, cows with human feelings and humans who are turned into gods. Study note: a note on dates You will notice that this course uses the abbreviations ‘BCE’ and ‘CE’ when dating events, texts and objects. These abbreviations stand for ‘Before the Common Era’ and ‘Common Era’. You may be familiar with an alternative method of referring to dates as...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...becomes a major industry you’re finding that people who perhaps have automotive interests who have better insights on how to develop braking systems are bringing things across from other sectors into the wind sector. That is not going to produce radical reductions in costs, but you’re going to come down the cost curve gradually, certainly with wind, and in some parts...
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