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Festival of Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Festival of Psychology

...concept of ‘parentification’ or ‘role reversal’, which suggests parents’ authority is suppressed within the family dynamics because child language brokers find themselves in situations where they are assigned roles usually reserved for parents. Opponents of this idea argue against the notion of a role reversal during language brokering, reframing the activity as...
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Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?

...concept to understand in autism, as some autistic people tend to internalise their difficulties, meaning that their needs may not be detected as early as the needs of autistic people who present with a more externalising profile and accompanying learning disabilities, for example. The ‘internalised presentation of autism’, which is prevalent across genders but appears...
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How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...concept of ‘prescribing’ the arts, which tends to suggest a medicalisation as well as something which is ‘done to’ the patient. There are also different approaches, which focus on developing the individual, the community, or both (see Drinkwater, 2025, p. vii). Finding out more Given the depth of evidence about the potential of the arts to aid health and wellbeing...
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What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?
Education & Development

What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?

...concepts like equity, equality and social justice, which underpin ‘inclusive education’, relate closely to what is valued in society, what we think the purpose of education is, and how vulnerable or minority groups are perceived. What does this mean for how teachers, schools and policy-makers can help to support inclusive education within their contexts? Research by...
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Kinematics of fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Kinematics of fluids

...concept of a stream function as a method of describing fluid flows and formulate Euler’s equation of motion for an inviscid fluid. The extract is relatively self-contained and should be reasonably easy to understand for someone with a sound knowledge of relevant mathematics, such as could be gained from Open University level 2 study of applied mathematics including...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Why not ‘World Religions’?
History & The Arts

Why not ‘World Religions’?

...concept of World Religions comes from a particular historical context. DAVID G. ROBERTSON It seems entirely natural to us to talk about world religions. It’s in the media constantly. It’s in popular and academic books. It’s even encoded into the structure of many introductory courses at universities. But what makes something a world religion and not others? Why are...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Non-existent countries
Society, Politics & Law

Non-existent countries

...concept this can be. According to the Montevideo convention, statehood requires ‘a permanent population; a defined territory; a government; and a capacity to enter into relations with other states’. As Nick Middleton argues in his book, the many and varied histories and geographies of contested nationalisms have led to a fascinating story of what it means to be a...
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...concept of criminalisation is valuable for understanding race–crime debates describe the problem of disproportionality in relation to the criminal justice system provide examples of some of the ways in which critical criminology has conceptually approached and researched ‘race’ and ethnicity...Race, ethnicity and crime: The US, Australia and the UK - The...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr