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Developing leadership in the voluntary sector
Education & Development

Developing leadership in the voluntary sector

...Social Sciences courses To stay informed about the work of the CVSL, please sign up to our quarterly newsletter. Click on this link to sign-up. [CVSL logo] On this page you'll find information about CVSL’s free courses, plus links to other courses and resources from The Open University, to help you develop your leadership practice and respond to complex challenges in an...
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Panic buying and how to stop it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic buying and how to stop it

...social media companies to work to tell people to avoid sharing ‘empty shelf porn’ on Social media and making social media users aware of the contagious nature of emerging norms and users’ role in not transmitting those that are harmful. 3. Removing the signals from the environment: Supermarkets might change their operations to becoming online only with vulnerable...
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The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace

...social situations. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer were especially interested in the influence of emotion on cognition – do people think and behave differently when emotions are higher? They argued against traditional thinking that emotions lead to irrational behaviour, but instead proposed that understanding your own emotions and those of others may allow us...
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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...working with services and hardware such as products and buildings typically prioritise the social and technical aspects of systems. Creating conditions for resilience requires us to develop and practise ecologically literate ways of designing integral to our human concerns, as systems scientist Fritjof Capra sets out: Design, in the broadest sense, consists in shaping...
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Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...Working at Ealing, Basil Dearden developed the ‘social problem film’ within a fictional format, such as The Blue Lamp (1950) dealing with juvenile delinquency, reflecting a contemporary moral panic, and later Sapphire (1959) which dealt with issues of race and immigration following the Notting Hill riots of the previous year. (These issues were addressed again later,...
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Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...social citizenship. With particular reference to women and disabled people, you will look at the rights and obligations that develop within society to link people together...How do you create citizenship? How do you feel you belong? This free course, Engendering citizenship, examines social citizenship. With particular reference to women and disabled people, you will look...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...social scientists; they also include photographs and other images. As you work with these you need to pay attention to what is being claimed – and what might be missing from the arguments advanced. We shall return to these issues during the course...‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places: 2.1 The shaming of America - I begin our story with a case study relating...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...work and free time’, Social forces, 84(1), pp. 285-303. Sayer, L. C. (2016) ‘Trends in Women’s and Men’s time use, 1965–2012: back to the future?’, Gender and couple relationships: Springer, pp. 43-77. Women in Sport, (2020) EMPOWERING WOMEN AND GIRLS THROUGH SPORT: Our Impact 2018 & 2019. van Houten, J. M., Kraaykamp, G. and Breedveld, K. (2015) ‘When do...
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