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Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...psychological phenomena. They believe that the success of natural science in modern times has stemmed from scientists’ refusal to go beyond what can be supported by empirical evidence, especially evidence derived from careful observation of phenomena and/or experimental manipulation of them. Positivists have high hopes that a science of human social life will pave the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...psychology, and in community development. Social work has well-established principles based on human rights and social justice, but it is shaped by and takes place in a constantly changing social and political context...Session 1: What is social work?: 3 Social work values and ethics - [This is a photograph of two women talking to each other.] Figure 2 Values in social...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...psychological empowerment. Structural empowerment relates to the extent to which people are empowered to make decisions within the scope of their job. It implicitly assumes, therefore, that power and decision making are shared through an organisation, most particularly by managers with their teams. To be successful, structural empowerment relies on participative decision...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...psychological factors, locating the source of crime primarily within the individual and bringing to the fore questions of individual pathology. This approach is termed individual positivism. Other theorists – who regard crime as a consequence of social rather than individual pathology – have, by contrast, argued that more insights can be gained by studying the social...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...psychological costs of credit’, academics from Leicester University in the UK found an association between debt and psychological well-being. Their main finding was that unsecured debt, measured by outstanding (non-mortgage) credit, had a greater negative influence on psychological well-being than (secured) mortgage debt (Brown et al., 2005). A YouGov survey found that...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...psychology, sociology, anthropology, organisation studies, business studies and the social sciences. Over time, multiple theories of leadership have been developed, each one retaining influences from the discipline in which it originated. For example, examining the behaviours and traits of individual leaders continues to be an area of study for those drawing on a...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...psychology) or the social context (sociology) that influences them, or the moral arguments behind anti-doping and any sanctions imposed. When studying doping it can be helpful to gain some historical perspective, which you will now go on to do...Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study: 2 What does history tell us? - Looking back through history can help tell us how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...psychological resilience and even financial resilience. Most people have a common-sense understanding of the word ‘resilience’ and use it to refer to the ability to deal well with problems, challenging situations and difficulties of all types. We sometimes refer to the resilience of other people by talking about their ability to ‘bounce back’ or to ‘weather...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs