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Sickle cell disease: a lethal advantage
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sickle cell disease: a lethal advantage

...research he conducted in Africa in 1951. Sickle cells and societies Over the past 30 years there has been a great advancement in how sickle cell disease is treated and managed. Go behind the scenes of The Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, one of ten specialist units in the United States dealing with sickle cell research and treatment. Transmitting genetic insights Many...
Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers

...research were quite critical of that similarity being made between rollercoaster rides and fairground attractions and skydiving because with skydiving it is all about maintaining control. If anything happens when – on the skydive – it’s down to you to control that situation. Laurie Taylor: Yes I remember because you talked about them, how they didn’t like bungee...
Could volunteering be bad for our health?
Society, Politics & Law

Could volunteering be bad for our health?

...research into health-care organisations. This concern is rather out-of-step with much current debate in my field. Discussion of volunteering in health-care organisations almost always mentions the thorny political issue of (paid) job replacement but rarely discusses the risks of public activism being diverted, or blocked, by the dominance of volunteerist models of...
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...research on participation is put understand how social scientific ideas about participation in social worlds have impacted on public debates and policies about poverty provide examples of how ordinary people are themselves involved in participating in social science...Social science and participation: What is participation? - Figure 1 To explore how social science helps...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...research guide, Queering Glamorgan, which despite its title includes a methodology that can be applied anywhere. The book, A Practical Guide to Searching LGBQIA Historic Records, is also useful as a toolkit in research techniques. When you apply this methodology, you start to see small stories appear. Many of them appear in the pages of newspapers past as fillers, those...
Professional Doctorate Hub
Education & Development

Professional Doctorate Hub

...new professional knowledge and practice? Discover what a Professional Doctorate offers and whether you are ready to register for this type of degree by exploring this collection of FREE resources...EXPLORE MORE: To discover the locations of EdD programmes in the United Kingdom, click on this interactive map or head over to our WELS postgraduate and researcher's blog page....
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...Research Council reviews published and unpublished evidence and concludes there is no link between MMR and autism. 2 May 1998 Finnish study published in which reported adverse reactions to the MMR vaccine between 1988 and 1996 revealed no association between MMR and autism. 12 June 1999 Epidemiological study of 498 cases of autism in eight North Thames health districts...
Being a boy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being a boy

...contemporary boyhood, drawing on research conducted at The Open University and elsewhere...[The family are dining together at a table] Click on the image above, to start your interactive experience... Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari....
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