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Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’

...psychological aspects of child development – and how we can have rather limited views on what constitutes ‘normal’ or healthy emotional and social development. For instance, in terms of gender role expectations, does it really matter if a girl dresses and acts in a way that is masculine? and maybe it can be okay that your child doesn’t want to go to any parties,...
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Article 10 mins
What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...psychology. I also wanted to learn more about my sister’s condition. During my second year at university, I visited a centre in Sri Lanka that supported autistic children and learned about physical and sensory therapies. I struggled to manage my caring role during my third year of university, as my parents were unwell. My sister’s autism meant she followed a strict...
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Article 5 mins
Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...Ethical Considerations for Multi/plurilingual Research. Video recording of discussion led by Prof Britta Viebrock, ENROPE Intensive Study Week#2, Paris. Yardley, L. (2017) ‘Demonstrating the validity of qualitative research’, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 12(3), pp. 295–6. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2016.1262624 (Accessed: 23 April 2025)....
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Article 15 mins
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...psychological background have tended to focus on the psychological characteristics of individuals who have committed crimes. In contrast, criminologists from a sociological background have focused more on factors rooted in social life such as those related to economic, gendered, generational and cultural inequalities. Some sociological approaches have long recognised that...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...psychological repercussions for students as these are, for many people, very personal and judgmental pieces of information. Students often need to come to terms with their own results and deal with the repercussions, both good and bad, before they inform others. Security systems support that restricted access for privacy purposes. Yet we need to carefully consider what...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...psychologies, sophisticated enough, perhaps, for them to count as persons. Another example of non-human persons would be intelligent life on other planets. If there are such beings they might very well be persons although it is very unlikely that they would be human beings. This course is concerned with the use of ‘person’ that is not equivalent to ‘human being’....
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...psychological. A recognizable cast of character emerge within the Gothic tradition. Supernatural beings such as vampires, ghosts and demons often appear alongside men and women who typify extremes of good and evil: monks and nuns, violent tyrants and naïve damsels in distress, Byronic heroes and femmes fatales. It might be worth noting that although such characterization...
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Article 45 mins
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...psychology and social issues by looking at how people behave as customers, particularly what they buy and how they use what they buy. Understanding customer behaviour is essential to effective marketing. As a business philosophy, marketing puts customers at the centre of an organisation’s strategy. It sees customer satisfaction and the long-term repeat business that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs