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Wanted! Starlings
Nature & Environment

Wanted! Starlings

...climatic conditions ranging from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Starlings look for suitable holes, usually in trees in which to build a nest and raise their young. In North America they have been found to be more aggressive than some of the native species that nest in tree holes. This means as well as reducing the availability of nest-holes to...
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Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...change behaviour. Giving feedback is an essential skill: especially with critical feedback, if it isn’t done effectively, or even avoided, it can have a hugely negative impact on the other person’s motivation and engagement (Bakker and Leiter, 2010). In her review of over twenty-five years of psychological research into feedback, Valerie Shute defines feedback as...
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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...changing around us. If we want to understand how, we need to think about how we understand. Elizabeth Silva explains why methods do not only describe the world, they build it...[The Women's March on Portland, 22-01-17] Methods are ways of knowing, and they are always changing. Academics have recently become highly methodologically creative, inventing a swathe of new...
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Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub

...change, trusting others, finishing a job) and there are a lot of things that we think we already know in terms of how to work through these different situations. In fact, they, and the issues they bring with them, have always existed for individuals and for organisations: this is not new, and many organisations already applied psychological concepts and theories to...
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Battle of Thermopylae
History & The Arts

Battle of Thermopylae

...changed, and consider how the re-telling of stories leads to the writing of history...Changing places and re-telling stories: Battle of Thermopylae In this introductory activity, we suggest you take a look at the Hestia project map to try to understand more about how we can interpret the importance of the geography and topography at Thermopylae, site of a significant...
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Changemakers
Society, Politics & Law

Changemakers

...changes...Be a changemaker We live at a time of Welsh, UK, and global challenges—but, also, a time of possibility and opportunity. How can ordinary young Welsh citizens make a difference to these challenges? How can they be active citizens? How can they be Changemakers? We’ll show you how to make a difference by teaching you how to make political and social change....
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Managing care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing care

...Changes and transitions Moving into residential care can often be a troubling experience. Managers and residents discuss how it can be made easier. Organisational change The Beeches is service for people with learning difficulties that has recently undergone radical change. How can a manager ease the transition and maintain quality of service? An integrated service The...
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What is a transformation process? The one minute guide
Money & Business

What is a transformation process? The one minute guide

...changes people who are unwell into people who are fit. [How transformation works] Making people well again is a transformation process Some business activity involves a lot of transformation processes - turning milk into cheese, then turning the cheese into shredded cheese, then turning the shredded cheese into a pizza topping. Transformation processes take many forms...
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