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Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...courses to manage and maintain healthy and sustaining professional relationships with your colleagues. ...Workplace relationships A relationship is the connection or association between two things or people. Key psychological aspects of a ‘good’ relationship are mutual trust, respect, commitment and individual responsibility. A good relationship meets the needs of...
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...course of justice Inerasable as my scars and fate. I am here a woman ... with all my lives strung out like beads before me It isn’t privilege or pity that I seek It isn’t reverence or safety quick happiness or purity but the power to be what I am/ a woman charting my own futures/ a woman holding my beads in my hand [A photograph of a woman holding a bunch of flowers]...
Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...course, as the publicity of Hidden Figures. But for a long time women didn’t have such visible role models working in science or space. [A photograph of Katherine Johnson seated wearing her newly awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is sat in the centre of the photo with a man sat behind her. She wears a black blazer and orange blouse underneath, with small medals...
Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...courses in various places such as OpenLearn. Read books, blogs and resources written by Indigenous people, such as WISN, Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology by Raymond Pierotti. Participate: Interact and, if possible, join like-minded communities, either virtually or locally. This could be helping clear invasive species or monitor local flora and...
People with dementia and meaning in music
Health, Sports & Psychology

People with dementia and meaning in music

...course, in communal settings such as care homes it is not always easy to cater for individual tastes, as the needs of a group of residents may have to be balanced (McDermott et al, 2014). You can complete this Playlist for Life chart to identify your musical preferences and begin to map your musical identity and see how these link with key memories from your own life....
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...course. In postwar Britain, much of the drinking took place in pubs. It was mainly men that drank there, and they generally drank beer. Relatively little changed in the two decades after The Pub and the People was published. It wasn’t until the 1960s that British drinking culture began to shift in more fundamental ways, and the beginnings of the era of Peak Booze can be...
Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...open to the public as a show cave with impressive stalactites and stalagmites and an underground lake. Other caves are only accessible with specialist equipment and experience, though guided access is available. On the surface, streams emerge and abruptly disappear underground into swallow holes. Their valleys, formed when the ground was frozen during the last Ice Age...
Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe
History & The Arts

Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe

...open Ghanian embassies across the continent. He took up a place studying medicine in Yugoslavia after a coup in Ghana sent him into exile. He had intended to return to Africa after completing his medical studies in Europe but, as often happens, love intervened. Peter met and married Karmen Laković, the couple settling in Piran. His election attracted both international...