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What is Locus of Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Locus of Control?

...research on how locus of control affects individuals at work. Increased stress: occupational stress in teachers was found to be positively associated with the teachers' generalised belief in external control (Kyriacou and Sutcliffe, 1997). Higher level of accidents: hospital employees with more external safety locus of control orientations reported significantly more...
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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...research project with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), I interviewed a volunteer for a local women’s team who noted that finding venues for just 6 home fixtures was incredibly challenging. An informal hierarchy seemed to be in place when it came to booking fixtures – established men’s teams first, newer men’s teams next, then boy’s fixtures and only...
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Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...research, such as Olson and Fazio (2002), found that these often reflect childhood learning and experiences, including the culture we were brought up in. Learning and judgement from, and experiences with, family, friends, school, society, media, all contribute to self-limiting beliefs. Conner and Barrett (2005) suggest that we continuously assess situations in relation to...
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The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...1-13. Runnymede Trust (2011) Aiming Higher, Race, Equality and Diversity in the Academy. Available at: https://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/Aiming%20Higher.pdf (Accessed 6 December 2020). Singh, G. (2009) A synthesis of research evidence. Black and minority ethnic (BME) students’ participation in higher education: improving retention and success, Coventry University....
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A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...centred in one object. The dust of many a knightly Noel lies mouldering within the church, and the remembrance of them may, perchance, fade away with their ashes. But there is one name united with the Noels which the world will not willingly let die, and there is one form now sleeping far away, round which many associations of touching interest cling - a form still...
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The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...centred on the likely impact on its relations with the EU and the possible economic fallout. The finance minister Anton Siluanov said that Brexit was likely to be less significant for Russia’s economy than shocks it has experienced over the past two years. Aleksei Kudrin, an ex-finance minister and influential adviser to President Vladimir Putin, tweeted that there...
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Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...centre of this entirely new kind of view. The town is framed by a thick “Amphitheatre, or white Floor of Clouds”. Drawing clouds was clearly not one of Baldwin’s strengths. They are crudely worked, knobbly protuberances, signs for clouds (the first classification of clouds was made sixteen years later by Luke Howard). The concentric circles formed by these rings of...
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Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
Society, Politics & Law

Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955

...centred rent strikes during the period of ‘Red Clydeside’ around the First World War, producing from within its ranks highly influential trade union leaders and political activists like Willie Gallacher and John McLean among others. According to the Daily Worker, the Saracen foundry in Springburn in the North of Glasgow voted for solidarity strike action (Daily...
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