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Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...attention, and there are so many people who want to communicate with them. Very importantly, the NCRC talks about the rights of the child and talks about how important it is that they have a say in what they do. But engaging with children and young people, whilst we have to use all new technologies and whilst we have to understand what Snapchat is and what Twitter is and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...attention with what I was saying and about half way through I completely forgot what I was saying and then I couldn’t remember what came next and then it just sort of – like I say it took on a life of its own. Obviously at the time my adrenaline was shooting up. I couldn’t get my words out. I felt people were looking at me. So there's a sense of – there's a sense...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...attention has shifted to an imbalance in glutamatergic neurotransmission with the finding that ketamine (an analgesic/anaesthetic drug) may also act as a novel fast-acting antidepressant (Kirby, 2015; Malhi et al., 2016). Considering the overlapping and inter-related functions governed by these neurotransmitter systems, it is perhaps not surprising that the picture that...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...attention to the site where the damaged tissue initiated the pain message. Drugs to alleviate pain act to interrupt this flow of information. There are three basic types grouped together by the way in which they work. Drugs such as aspirin act at the site of the injury to stop or at least reduce the production of messenger chemicals that stimulate the nerve endings....
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...attention to these instructions, but actually, our research shows that they do actually remember these instructions so this doesn’t seem to be the underlying reason for them choosing from line-ups. Nathalia Gjersoe The research that you are doing, do you feel that it’s relevant just for child witnesses or do you think that it may have implications for witness...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...attention of Pierre Hainaut, a tall, bespectacled Belgian who worked at the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Cancer Research in Lyon. Hainaut was custodian of a database of all the different mutations in the p53 gene recorded in the medical literature, and the types of cancer with which each mutation was associated. Aware from his records of the...
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Article 10 mins
Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...attention, but you can’t look at the baseline, broad line of the pyramid and expect to fill every programme with strong environmental messages unless they’re wound up in stories, and I think that’s very hard, because you’re in danger of maybe diluting it, the subject, or maybe just over-exposing it. So I think that it is harder to do that, I think it is possible...
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Video 30 mins
General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...attention. But can’t we have authentic leaders? What is authentic? We shouldn’t confuse truthful content with an authentic person. Authentic can mean a strong sense that they are genuinely grappling with the issues – even if they are 'acting', and even if they are not yet telling us everything. There is always the frontstage politician on show for the media and the...
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Activity 5 mins