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The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...neurosciences approach Hypotheses about abnormal physiology: Requiring experimental rigour and independent replication Research capacity and the service interface: Promoting collaboration, career development, and child-care and support service expansion Lay participation: Strengthening research networks through partnership...The MMR vaccine: Public health, private fears:...
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...neuroscience and parts of the brain. You can also talk about conflict in terms of the ideas and agendas at stake. But perhaps a useful starting point is how it feels – in your body – because those sensations are very immediate and powerful. Humans may be a smart animal, but we are still an animal, and some of our responses aren’t really a choice. When you ask...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...neuroscience mainly, to objectify the role of parent in raising children and maximising opportunities for social advancement and social mobility. As such, good parenting is through to compensate for social and economic disadvantage. New Labour’s and the coalition government’s stance of what the parents do and not who they are matters, has introduced a new moral code,...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...neuroscience have revealed something similar is occurring, out of sight, between a child’s ears – in their brains. The importance of these medical insights is that they bring the strength of evidence associated with good scientific practice to bear on more abstract philosophical questions about ‘intent’ and ‘responsibility’. For Dr Eileen Vizard it is time for...
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...neuroscience. Academic debates concerning aspects of development exist both within and between different disciplines. For social workers, it is helpful to understand some of these debates and appreciate the extent to which development is viewed as an interaction between environmental, social, and hereditary influences. This reflects one of the fundamental debates...
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...Neuroscience: Theory, Research and Implications for Practice, London: Bloomsbury academic. Connell, G. and McCarthy, C. (2014) A Moving Child is a Learning Child: How the Body teaches the Brain to Think, Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Publishing. Goddard-Blythe, S. (2004) The Well-Balanced Child. Movement and Early Learning, Stroud: Hawthorn Press. Hanscom, A. J. (2016)...
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews 95, pp. 559-567 [Online]. Available at http://www.janinedutcher.com/uploads/4/1/3/8/41383683/dutcher_creswell_nbr_2018.pdf Grant, L. and Kinman, G. (2014) The Importance of Emotional Resilience for Staff and Students in the ‘Helping’ Professions: Developing an Emotional Curriculum, AdvanceHE [Online]. Available at
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...neuroscience is that cognitions and emotions are completely intertwined and that as humans, emotions are a very important part of our thinking processes. A quite simple way of thinking about how emotions and thinking come together is the dual process model of cognition. If we have a situation, we’ve got to make a decision, a sort of classical way of thinking about this...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs