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What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...psychologically. So what questions do philosophers ask about race? Some philosophers of race investigate ethical questions (for example, ‘should we keep talking about race?’ or ‘are racial fetishes wrong?’). Others investigate questions of political philosophy (for example, ‘how do racial hierarchies affect our conception of the relationship between the...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...Psychology Department, University of Durham. Dr Campbell is an evolutionary psychologist who thinks that you can't have a full understanding of the human mind without looking at how the process of evolution has shaped it. On her area of interest: The brain is as much an organ of the human body as any other, and I think it's important that we should look at the kind of...
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Article 30 mins
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...psychology and is closely associated with the work of John Bowlby (1907–1990), who carried out work on attachment in the 1940s and 50s. [Described image] Figure 4 John Bowlby Recent research has shown that not only can babies form multiple attachments but that they are often better able to form relationships in the future if they form more than one primary attachment...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...psychology with criminology. That allowed me to then move on to working as an independent mental health advocate. And in that role, I was able to work alongside social workers, mental health officers, and really understand and appreciate their perspective in terms of antidepressant practice, in terms of helping someone to reach their potential and their outcomes, and I...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...psychologically troubling act of denial as he ‘train himself to live only on tea for weeks’ (p. 48). There is another shift of mood once Bart recovers from his illness, and the focus of the narrative moves to his obsession with his white girlfriend, Beatrice. Pathos becomes the prevailing mood of the remainder of the extract as Bart loses the object of his affection....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...Forensic linguistics is an area that’s become very popular, very important. The ability to analyse language to show who might have produced it, for example. There’s been some very interesting work on confessions – supposed confessions – showing that they are almost certainly made up by police, or whoever, after the event rather than, as was claimed in court, a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...psychological damage’ caused by grief, such as melancholia, or, to use a more contemporary phrase, depression. 1889: adolescence started to become recognised as a distinct stage of life, and puberty was recognised as a significant ‘cause of insanity’. Maxime Durand-Fardel (1889), another doctor who was a pioneer in psychiatry, highlighted the existence of suicide in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...psychology to design public policy better, what the Nudge Unit really did that I think was interesting was run randomised trials. And it has popularised the idea of randomised trials with ministers who now say well you can run a randomised trial fairly cheaply, it doesn’t have to be this great big sophisticated thing, doesn’t have to cost a lot of money, you can get...
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