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Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...et al., 2012). Activity within the ‘default mode network’ (a neural system that involves several midline structures within the brain including the ventral medial prefrontal cortex, and can provide insight into brain function at rest and during self-reflection, associated with self-referential processing) is also altered in major depressive disorder. Importantly,...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...da Vinci’s most famous works is his Vitruvian man. The full title of this work is Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio, which translates to The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius. Ratio and proportion played a crucial role in both of these important works of art, and the golden ratio can be found throughout the human body. [A carton showing Leonardo Da Vinci holding the “Mona Lisa”] Figure 1 ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...et al 2016). There is an importance about thinking creatively about which professionals in the child’s network might be best placed to achieve this. This raises a number of key issues - how far will loyalty to parents or fear of talking inhibit children? Will older children be more reluctant to disclose what they see, hear, feel and experience than younger children? Key...
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STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...et al., 2020). The Institute has given approval for a new occupational role and associated Level 7 (postgraduate) systems thinking practitioner apprenticeship (STPA) and the OU launches its own STPA programme in 2022. Led by ASTiP, the Open University was able to celebrate this unique pioneering tradition of fostering STiP capabilities for lifelong learning and managing...
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Why is childbirth a medical procedure?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is childbirth a medical procedure?

...et al., 2002). Not surprisingly, defensive medical practice has been identified as another reason for the increasing medicalisation of childbirth. We live in a society where relatively few babies die and, when they do, it is assumed that someone or something must be blamed. However, defensive practice serves to undermine clinical decision making for the benefit of women...
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The arts in Participatory Action Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

The arts in Participatory Action Research

...et al., 2023) to empower the women to make changes to their lives. PAR is a social, practical and collaborative activity where building relationships among all participants and the researchers is crucial in working towards self-determination and reform (Koch, 2006, 2015). PAR gives participants a voice to tell and find understandings of coping in their digital stories and...
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Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...fellow citizens. An independent assessment of GM Nation? consultation (Horlick-Jones et al., 2004) pointed to its failure to ‘engage with the broad mass of hitherto disengaged members of the lay public’ and presented convincing evidence that the shortcomings of the exercise were such that ‘the extent of outright opposition to GM foods and crops amongst the UK population is probably lower than indicated in the GM Nation? ......
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...et al. (2021) this figure is around 34%. The menstrual cycle with its fluctuating hormones creates physiological differences throughout its course so research that will benefit females needs to take these changes into consideration. But it makes research more expensive and time consuming. Many mixed research studies control this by studying females when their hormones are...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs