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Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...research in the criminal justice system that there is potential for additional trauma caused by the experience of being a witness. This evidence-based course provides learning about the Fitness to Practise process and being a witness. [RCN logo] This course has been accredited for continuing professional development by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). The RCN cannot...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...research Milton Keynes? Professor Gillian Rose introduces a study of how cities are increasingly using digital data to improve their management and create new ways of living...A smart city uses digital data to improve the way that it's managed, and to support new opportunities or ways of life. In the following video, Professor Gillian Rose introduces research into how...
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Video 10 mins
The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...Researchers can examine how the mass media allow us to sustain care towards other animals while making it more difficult to know about, and act upon, the realities of the harms inflicted on them. Our own interest in the paradox of animal care/exploitation arose from observing the puzzling phenomenon of children’s fast-food meals that juxtapose animal products – such...
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Article 5 mins
Jake Chapman On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Jake Chapman On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Research Group (1972-1978). As Professor of Energy Systems (1978 -2001) Jake became Head of the Systems Department (1987- 1994) and a major contributor to courses on applying systems theory to management and complex problem solving. He also played a major role at the OU in developing teaching materials to enable home-based students to use computers. Since 2001, Jake has...
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Audio 15 mins
Hacking under your skin?
Digital & Computing

Hacking under your skin?

...research team have discovered a way to hack into medical implants...[Surgery in a hospital] Well this one sounds like something from a science-fiction movie. A research team in Belgium has worked out how to hack into the communications used by an implanted medical device – that is a piece of technology permanently placed inside a living person. In this case, the device...
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Article 5 mins
The psychological benefits of multilingualism
Languages

The psychological benefits of multilingualism

...research indicates that a high level of multilingualism and multiculturalism makes people more tolerant of ambiguity (Dewaele and Wei 2013). Language learning is fraught with ambiguity, particularly in situations where real communication needs to take place, and language learners who are not able to tolerate this kind of ambiguity can find it very challenging to cope,...
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Article 5 mins
Are the Orlando murders part of a public health emergency?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are the Orlando murders part of a public health emergency?

...researchers on gun violence try to help make some sense of the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Florida...[Around 3000 people gathered in Loring Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota to unite in the wake of the Orlando, Florida shooting in a gay nightclub.] Crowds gather in Minnesota to mourn the dead of the Orlando nightclub shooting, one of hundreds of vigils which followed...
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Article 5 mins
If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
History & The Arts

If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?

...research, such as the study of developmental processes and diseases of many kinds. We are, at minimum, several steps and several years away from being able to create fully grown human-animal chimeras. But worries over the ethics of chimera research have been with us since the beginning of the 21st century. Ethicists have begun to map the space of difficult moral questions...
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Article 5 mins