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Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?

...think deeply about his jumping technique including a new two-arm swing skywards. The big jump The final ingredient in the mix is supreme confidence. Edwards’s 1995 season started well. A national record in his first contest, he was on his way. Then in June he achieved the longest leap of all time, 18.43m in Lille. Unfortunately the jump was only a hair’s breath,...
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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One

...think are more helpful: what does this change open up, and what does it close down? Reframing the question like this gets away from polarised ideas of right and wrong, good and bad. Instead it acknowledges the complexity of the situation and the fact that something can simultaneously expand understanding in some ways and constrain it in others. The main, extremely...
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The arts in Participatory Action Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

The arts in Participatory Action Research

...thinking and strengthen their emotional wellbeing. It subsequently empowered them to discuss plans for leaving the refuge and returning to a life outside. Surprisingly, gaining employment was their main cause for concern around establishing a safe environment for themselves and their children. Domestic violence is a persistent and major problem throughout the world that...
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Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity
History & The Arts

Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity

...thinking, how to be a leader without the need for a title, to be trusted with other people’s money, kindness, generosity, bravery and strength. There was a strong ethos of “all roles are open to all”, so at various times I was a band leader, Sunday school teacher to the over 50s, choir director, an events planner, prayer co-ordinator, preacher (going too far there...
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Two Yorkish episodes
History & The Arts

Two Yorkish episodes

...thinking that the difference was a difference between human nature long mellowed to its conditions, and human nature rasped on its edges and fretted by novel circumstances to a provisional harshness. I chose to fancy that unhuman nature sympathized with the English mood; in the sheep bleating from the pastures I heard the note of Wordsworth's verse; and by the sky, hung...
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Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...system. In Russia, neurasthenia was associated with a cultivated ‘western’ lifestyle (Goering, 2003)...Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare: 3.1 Introduction - Surrounded by the ever-present threat of ill health, not surprisingly, people expended a good deal of time and energy on trying to stay well. The late nineteenth century saw a new emphasis on promoting...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...system is implemented after conceding a £60,000 racial discrimination case last month. Consultants, Psychometric Research Development, will meet with London Underground in future to discuss any performance-related pay scheme as part of a settlement reached with 20 black station managers. The managers claimed that the scheme, in place for the three years between 1989 and...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...think of it? These are two major questions that cannot be answered accurately by the ‘hard’ evidence of book history. However, there are other, more personal historical records, documents which captured moments in time when men, women and children felt the need or were forced to disclose information about their reading habits. Journals, diaries, memoirs and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs