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Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...social events. I use Twitter, as I’ve mentioned, for work-related networking, and keeping up to date with what’s happening in my field. And I sometimes find out things there first. So it’s a good way of keeping my finger on the pulse. LinkedIn is where I keep my career profile. And again, I’ve managed to establish contacts with other people in my field. I...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...work of others. However, what is meant by ‘leadership’, ‘leading’, ‘administration’ and ‘management’ can vary across organisations, situations, times and culture. In the USA and Canada, the term ‘administrator’ is synonymous with ‘manager’, and some senior administrators will have strategic leadership responsibilities. In the UK and Australia,...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...Social Psychology Dr Stephanie Taylor...[A group of women sitting around a table in an informal work meeting ] Research participants used to be referred to as ‘subjects’, especially in my home discipline, psychology. ‘Participant’, the term now generally used, emphasises the rights of the person recruited, and their centrality to the research process. It signals...
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Article 5 mins
Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside
Society, Politics & Law

Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside

...Working-Class Politics on Clydeside 1914–1919’, International Review of Social History, 35 (1), 33-70. https://pmt-eu.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_cambridgeS0020859000009718&context=PC&vid=44OPN_VU1&lang=en_US&search_scope=EVERYTHING&adaptor=primo_central_multiple_fe&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,red%20clydeside&sortby=rank&offset=0...
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Article 30 mins
Ask the experts: Coronavirus fake news & medical terminology
Science, Maths & Technology

Ask the experts: Coronavirus fake news & medical terminology

...working on the modelling of social and communication aspects on the population spread of COVID-19, in particular, the spread of misinformation around COVID-19 among the public. Dr. Helen Wimalarathna - a lecturer in health sciences, who works as an infectious disease epidemiologist, and is currently busy with public engagement on the understanding of scientific facts and...
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Article 10 mins
Diverse perspectives on health and illness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diverse perspectives on health and illness

...work of the Brighton Housing Trust, a voluntary body committed to combating homelessness. Experiences of ageing Three women from diverse social backgrounds talk about their lives and experiences with growing old, including employment, family life and bereavement. Frank Richards Frank Richards was born in the Caribbean in 1931. He moved to England in 1955, and reminisces...
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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...Social Development, Oxford, Blackwell.) © Open University 2005...Find out more about The Open University's Education Studies (Primary) qualification. Most contemporary theorists argue that cognitive processes need to be taken into account in order to explain how the social environment makes its mark on the child’s gender development and how the child plays an important...
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Article 15 mins
How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?

...social media channels and were swallowed up by millions of people in recent months. On the science front, one example of fake news includes articles downplaying the fact that cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke are bad for human health. Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, co-founders of the website Retraction Watch, which detects academic papers withdrawn due to...
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