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Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...attention. The speaker often ensures that everybody receives a share of the gaze. Experienced coaches will know that prolonged eye contact in certain group situations can fulfil other functions, such as giving specific emphasis to part of a group. You will have an opportunity to apply your initial learning to the communication exchanges in Chris Hoy’s motor racing pit...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Coaching others to coach Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...attention should a coach developer pay to this element of their expertise? [Described image] Figure 10 The iceberg principle: coach developers attempt to bring hidden, implicit aspects into the open Description of Figure 10 Many aspects that impact on coaching practice and behaviour are implicit. They are taken for granted, they have become habits and stem from ideas,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...attention. At its core, this is a prototypical market exchange, as contract law has long recognized. Read at The Conversation: Are US antitrust regulators giving Silicon Valley’s ‘free’ apps a free pass? Facebook trending troubles Facebook's trending panel - that little box that tells you what's popular amongst its caged community - used to have a degree of human...
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Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...attention upon its submission to the arXiv, a database of science preprints. More serious is the collaboration with NASA for the making of the film The Martian, and the dozen-or-so published academic papers that came out of the research for Interstellar that was carried out in order to make the black hole look realistic on screen. As an early-career scholar, I am not in...
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Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...attention to creating a sustainable pipeline of female leadership talent. [graph showing women in senior leadership roles in sport England organisations 2009-2016] In response to the lack of diversity in the sport sector, in 2016 the government introduced the UK Sports Governance Code, overseen by the UK’s two funding bodies: Sport England (grassroots) and UK Sport...
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Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg

...attentional bias to separation-related stimuli. Computers in Human Behavior, 71, 228-239. Loh, K. K., & Kanai, R. (2014). Higher media multi-tasking activity is associated with smaller gray-matter density in the anterior cingulate cortex. Plos one, 9(9), e106698. McCuistion, T. S. (2016). The Relationship Between Resilience and Sleep Quality. Electronic Theses and...
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Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...attention and listens to this protest’ (Daily Record, 1988). The reality was that Mrs Thatcher was not one for listening to the voice of trade unionists on strike. On this occasion Thatcher and Forsyth held almost all the winning cards. The Tories had just been returned for a third term in Government only eight months earlier and the privatization of NHS ancillary...
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Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...attention. Reading for pleasure is increasingly recognised as a ‘purposeful volitional act with a large measure of choice and free will’ (Powell, 2014). Whereas pleasure in reading refers to pleasure in the experience, regardless of whether the reader was able to exercise agency in the context. For instance, listening to a bedtime story read by a parent may well be a...
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