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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...caring commitments) or feel boring or ‘not right’ anymore. It may also feel like you have achieved all your work goals but are still unfulfilled. You are stuck: the normal way of doing your job isn’t working anymore, or you cannot get that next promotion. These situations then often lead to feelings of worry, stress and anxiety, and even hopelessness and...
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Article 10 mins
Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...care. This could mean exchanging surplus space in a home for care of a resident, their home and garden (including food production and biodiversity). Leveraging seeks new design opportunities in functioning systems. Even in the densely populated UK, there is still much latent potential to expand food production on private and public land. Roles for designers in this...
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Article 5 mins
How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...care units. In the UK, 26,771 people passed away from 687,369 patients that have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (numbers correct as of 30 April 2020), which suggest a mortality rate of 15%. Various studies are trying to understand why some patients have more severe symptoms than others. Unfortunately, there is currently no specific treatment for COVID-19; although many...
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Article 10 mins
The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...adult and child. [Described image] Figure 2 Eric Berne Parent state, as the name suggests, is associated with the typical behaviour of a parent towards their children. This could be authoritarian, prescribing or admonishing as in ‘Don't do that’, ‘Do it this way’ or ‘That's wrong’ – which might be described as a critical parent state. Alternatively, it could...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...caring for children was women’s ‘natural’ function: that women were ‘naturally’ better at caring roles than men. These common-sense assumptions had a definite influence on practice. Activity 4 Gender in theory and practice Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes Think again about your own practice context. How have ways of working with children and young people,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Care About Mindfulness, and a video on student mental health (see below). Transcripts SYNDICATION AND OTHER SITES We have our sister site OpenLearn Create, which is more international with 48% of users from India and another large chunk from Tanzania and Nigeria. Our YouTube channel has a whopping 264,000 subscribers – the most on any UK university YouTube account. We...
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Article 5 mins
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...adult athlete of individual sport and the coach child athlete of team sport and the coach professional adult athlete of team sport and the coach personal trainer and wealthy client yoga teacher and client from adult class fitness instructor in gym and adult client [Described image] Figure 1 Power continuum Comment We felt that power was a feature in all relationships,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Should boys be taught about periods and the menstrual cycle at school?
Education & Development

Should boys be taught about periods and the menstrual cycle at school?

...fact remains that many adult men – and women – are still highly uncomfortable talking about periods. And given that Plan International UK found that almost half of girls aged 14 to 21 are embarrassed by menstruation, it’s time this changed – period. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. More on periods Transcripts...
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