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Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...world, groups are searching for a new kind of politics; a way to make politics more inclusive and less confrontational, rather than something top-down – ‘leaders’ (those people able to survive the political fight) fighting in a ‘battle’ of ideas. Can there be bottom-up ‘leadership’ – a wider group of people engaged in constructive dialogue, through which...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...World Health Organization, April 2019. Available online at: https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/http://id.who.int/icd/entity/314468192 (Accessed 09-07-2019). Jarvis, D. (2017) ‘Stressed teachers offered electric shock therapy to combat anxiety and depression’, The Telegraph, July 1. Available at:
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...world. In 1870 van Nencki, working at the University of Basle, showed that in the body salicin is converted to salicylic acid. As natural products such as salicin usually only occur in small amounts and are often difficult to synthesise, a common strategy is to find a related compound that can easily be made in large amounts in the laboratory. In this case, salicylic acid...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...world situations. You will explore examples of how organisations have, variously, tried to develop, adopt, adapt to or even ignore innovations in relation to environmental management. As noted above, there are many millions of organisations in existence. Many are themselves highly innovative, and many adopt successful innovations developed from others but are themselves...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...world of constant busyness where time is always short and never enough, where we are bombarded all day long by ‘input’ to our bodies and minds – buy this, do that, look at this, listen to this, be better, and so on. In reducing stress and the impact of it on our bodies, drawing boundaries can be fundamental. There are many things we can do to reduce what gets inside...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Succeeding in postgraduate study Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...world. SLIDE 15 In terms of points that you should bear in mind, a key aspect concerns social life, which is mainly or solely online, through social platforms and audio and video-conferencing, rather than campus-based, so there is little or no ‘face-to-face’ contact with students. Working while studying takes commitment – you may need to juggle your existing...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Do you trust forensic science in the criminal justice system?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do you trust forensic science in the criminal justice system?

...world’ who is unrelated to the suspect. This calculation is called a likelihood ratio. In trying to communicate this information to the court, the expert might say something like: ‘Analysis of the DNA recovered from the bat gave a full DNA profile that matched that of the suspect. If the DNA evidence did not come from the suspect, then the DNA profile must match by...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...world history. It is considered to be one of the major innovations of the Treaty of Lisbon and enables one million EU citizens to call directly on the European Commission to propose legislation of interest to them in an area of EU competence.’ (http://www.citizens-initiative.eu/) Non-EU bodies such as the Council of Europe (CoE) also stress the importance of active...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs