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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...research and practice? Whilst this article responds to these questions, first we surely need to consider our long term aims. Do we want to develop readers for life (the maximum entitlement), or will the ‘expected standard’ (the minimum) or ‘greater depth’ (a halfway house) suffice? After all, it’s only five years since reading for pleasure became a statutory...
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Drugs and consumerism
Money & Business

Drugs and consumerism

...pricing, advertising and marketing...The OU's Dr Peter Bloom talks to Professor Gerard Hastings—the first UK Professor of Social Marketing and founder/director of the Institute for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control Research at Stirling and The Open University—about consumerism, marketing, and pricing, particularly around prescription drugs. Transcript...
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