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Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge

...research can help to reveal the work of emotions...[Volleyball on a beach in Dakar] Sport on a beach in Dakar Due to the deep emotions which may be evoked among both participants and researchers, topics such as death and bereavement can raise particular challenges for qualitative and cross-cultural researchers. Indeed, I and my colleagues have reflected during our project...
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Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...centre. The idea of ‘Clydebuilt’ serves to illustrate the importance of the city in equipping not only Britain itself, but also the far-flung reaches of the Empire with the ships, locomotives and heavy engineering commodities necessary to fuel economic expansion. Crucially, then, Glasgow's (‘local’) economic fortunes, as with those of many of the other ‘older’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...children and adolescents, in hospitals, clinics, assessment and treatment centres, education, social care settings, or within the home. Sometimes people with mental health problems face discrimination and stigma and, as a mental health nurse, a key part of your role would be to advocate for those that you work with. Watch Video 7 about mental health nursing produced by...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...children are born equally and many also face discrimination, or multiple forms of discrimination, due to their class, gender and/or race which can impact on their future educational and employment life-course opportunities. [A photograph of the bottom half of six people standing in a line. In front of them is the text: youth.] Between 2010/11 and 2018/19 there has been...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
What's your personality profile?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's your personality profile?

...Our Time - on the COOT survey page. Find out more Study children... The Open University offers a number of courses that allow you to study childhood: Understanding Children; Childhood and Child Development among them. ... study people Starting With Psychology, Understanding Health and Discovering Psychology are just a few of the courses for study with The Open University....
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Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University Cuts in welfare were at the heart of George Osborne’s agenda coming into the present parliament in 2015. Two years later, not a single new measure affecting benefits was announced in this budget. Any new welfare savings have been formally ruled out in this parliament, with the proviso that if spending breaks...
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Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...Centre for Policy Research), https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/empire-marketing-board-1926-33-britains-failed-attempt-soft-trade-policy. Drawing on their ‘Britain’s Empire Marketing Board and the failure of soft trade, 1926-1933’, in European Review of Economic History, 25, pp. 780-805 Horton, Melanie. Empire Marketing Board Posters (Manchester: Scala, 2010). A small...
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Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out
Society, Politics & Law

Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out

...centres in Pozzallo, Sicily and the southern province of Ragusa, as a protest against the authorities’ failure to improve conditions. Centres are often overcrowded, unsanitary and provide little legal advice or options for activities. In other areas of Italy, EU efforts to reduce migrant intakes include increasing deportations from so-called “hotspots”, and in some...
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