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Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub

...concepts and theories to provide better working environments. However, the impact of COVID-19 pandemic has brought many of these issues to the surface in an accelerated and contracted way, and even as restrictions ease, the effects continue to reverberate. We were already in an unpredictable and continuously changing modern business world, categorised by economic...
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Evolution
Science, Maths & Technology

Evolution

...concepts of evolutionary science and investigate how these account for the characteristics of arctic reindeer. How do natural selection and other evolutionary processes produce changes in genes? How do new species originate? And how are large-scale evolutionary patterns generated. The material forms part of the course S366 Evolution... Evolution A short introduction to...
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Wordsworth re-visited
History & The Arts

Wordsworth re-visited

...the Romantic era, poetry evolved as a cultural and ideological tradition. This short, dynamic lecture highlights the cultural and revolutionary texture of such verse. Contemporary influences Wordsworth's literary conception of nature was hugely informed by his contemporaries. Using examples from key texts, these influences are mapped and compared in intriguing detail....
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Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...conceptions of learning, and learning through other,.]Figure 1 Learning in the workplace as a complex web (Ferguson, 2021, p. 124)Show description The diagram shows 7 circles linked with black arrows on a background of a spider's web. The first circle shows an icon of a figure walking with a stick and backpack. The text Journey of the self is shown under the circle. The...
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Reading communities
Education & Development

Reading communities

...concept of what it means to be a reader in the 21st century Create new social spaces that encouraged choice, parental and library involvement and child ownership of their RfP Make strong connections between children’s home and school reading worlds Foster children’s autonomy as readers who can exercise discrimination within and beyond school Build new and more equal...
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Changing the way we work
Money & Business

Changing the way we work

...concept of Kaisen to motivate employees. Empowerment Getting rid of conventional structures for increased productivity at work. Teleworking Working life is increasingly about working wherever you can plug in your laptop, allowing flexibility and autonomy. Communications How our ability to invent and form relationships will be even more essential assets for business in the...
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What does toilet paper teach us about poverty?
Society, Politics & Law

What does toilet paper teach us about poverty?

...concept known as intergenerational elasticity states that child income is heavily influenced by parental income. In the US, around 50% of the variance in child income relates directly to parental income (Pew, 2015). We can illustrate this concept by dividing the population into quintiles – five groups of equal size. Among those who had a father in the bottom fifth, 42%...
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Labour to the marrow: Exploring the party's ethos
Society, Politics & Law

Labour to the marrow: Exploring the party's ethos

...concepts in relation to the Labour Party, and explains how ethos can affect political direction...[Placards from a Labour Party rally in Canterbury, 2016] Placards at a Labour Party rally, Canterbury, 2016 The Labour Party ‘has a life of its own,’ Henry Drucker argued in 1979. Many political commentators, observers, and members of the party will instinctively...
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