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Can you train for penalty shoot-outs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can you train for penalty shoot-outs?

...research for my book ‘Twelve Yards: The Art and Psychology of the Perfect Penalty’, I spoke to coaches and athletes from many different sports, including golf, tennis, rugby, handball, gridiron and water-polo. All practice assiduously for any eventuality, and the most important word they used to describe their practise was ‘purposeful’. I was reminded of this word...
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Article 10 mins
Why is East Africa experiencing such a terrible drought?
Nature & Environment

Why is East Africa experiencing such a terrible drought?

...centre in Mogadishu, Somalia, on March 9, 2017.] Young girls line up at a feeding centre in Mogadishu, Somalia, on March 9, 2017. A severe drought threatens millions of people in East Africa. Crop harvests are well below normal and the price of food has doubled across much of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and nearby countries. [The Conversation] The last major drought in the...
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Article 5 mins
Growing up with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing up with Disability

...children with disabilities. This album looks at PLUS, an organisation working towards the inclusion of disabled children and young adults in social activities and organisations, encouraging friendships and fun. It looks at PLUS from the view of the children, the carers and the families. This material forms part of The Open University course KE312 Working together for...
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Audio 1 hr 6 mins
Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...researchers as we are, but we’re also really confident that teachers and learners in schools and universities are going to draw on this material. There’s another category we didn’t think of before we started, and that’s the world of natural history and environment filmmaking, both the professionals but also those people who are using the lavish freedoms of digital...
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Video 12 mins
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...Centre: mental health, research and the media - The UK's Science Media Centre (SMC), an independent press office that emerged from the House of Lords’ Science and Technology Select Committee in 2002 with the aim of increasing public awareness and trust in science, serves a key role working with journalists and experts within the scientific community. The SMC strives 'to...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Putting the child before the player
Health, Sports & Psychology

Putting the child before the player

...children and young people in the UK and throughout much of the world. In this interactive, you will learn why children’s rights are fundamental to every young person’s experience of football...Select the image below or click here to start the interactive. [Football pitch with the text Putting the child before the player on it] This interactive series of short films is...
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Activity 30 mins
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...research about the job and the company (who at the time was First Group) and I did a lot of work on my application. I was fortunate enough to be able to approach two drivers for advice and information. The first was the driver that advised I apply for the job and the second was a driver who would later become my instructor. Only a handful of close colleagues were aware...
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Article 5 mins
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...children’. This research is now regarded as unreliable for a number of reasons, but chiefly because it failed to take account of the socio-economic backgrounds of the young people tested. A major research project carried out in Montreal in 1962 was the first to question the received wisdom on this matter. The linguists Elizabeth Peal and Wallace Lambert compared the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs