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Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...et al. (2016) ‘Beliefs and perception about mental health issues: a meta-synthesis’, Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, vol 12, no. 2807–2818. Goffman, E. (1963) Stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity, New York, Simon and Schuster. Haslam-Ormerod, S. (2019) ‘“Snowflake millennial” label is inaccurate and reverses progress to destigmatise...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...et al., 2018). Balancing this, the internet allows non-professionals to find evidence with which they can challenge health and social care practitioners. Professionals can no longer simply rely on the status of being a ‘professional’. Consumers’ rights and citizens’ rights imply that the services we receive or practise should be evidence-based. For all...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...et al. (eds), Mammalian Hibernation III. 1967 Oliver and Boyd Figure 21 (a) A bat in position for thermography (dorsal side uppermost) showing the location of the interscapular region (red), and the major temperatures prevailing at the commencement of thermographic scannings, (b) Thermogram of the dorsal surface of a bat during its arousal from torpor. (The higher the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes
Society, Politics & Law

Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes

...mode of ‘entertainment’ is controversial. We’re also aware that juxtaposing the journey in the way we did is controversial, and we’re certainly open to critical feedback and exchange around these issues. But in the end, we did feel very strongly that attention needed to be paid to the inequalities of citizenship and asylum regimes, the commodification of...
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Article 10 mins
The case for and against a second referendum
Society, Politics & Law

The case for and against a second referendum

...mode of collective decision making. It would breed public resentment as well as fostering protest politics and extremism. A second referendum would not be changing a decision that has been implemented but subverting one that has not been enacted. But “democracies are entitled to change their mind” comes the retort. It is a deeply disingenuous claim, made as it most...
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Article 10 mins
Sleep: A doctor's advice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sleep: A doctor's advice

...mode. So when you go to bed worried or stressed your mind is highly active and just can't calm down. This is where training your mind in relaxation exercises (below) can make a difference. The first thing to do is to keep work out of the bedroom – so keep your files, computer and work documents out. Don't work in bed, and avoid doing any work-related things (reading,...
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Article 10 mins
What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?

...Mode 2 knowledge which ‘encourages cooperative interaction between scholars and practitioners’. (Holley, op cit) These can all be seen as versions of interdisciplinarity, but for simplicity we can think of interdisciplinary study being when students are encouraged to integrate and compare the approaches, insights and methods between two or more disciplines as part of...
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Article 15 mins
Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

...mode. Putting this into context; leaving ten average laptops on standby overnight for 365 days a year would waste 307 kWh of electricity per year. Using the live carbon intensity of the UK’s national grid of 226 gCO2e/kWh, this equates to 69 kg of carbon emissions from the wasted energy use of just ten laptops. If you have more than ten laptops, and account for time...
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Article 5 mins