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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...psychology that it’s very difficult to change people’s minds and often the more facts you throw at them, the more entrenched they become. It’s very useful to try and ask someone why they believe that and where they’re coming from, to try to unpick how much of it is politics and culture, how much of it is information where they’ve been misled, how much of it is...
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Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...Psychological Association. Howe, M.J.A. (1990) The Origins of Exceptional Abilities, Oxford, Blackwell. Lave, J. (1988) Cognition in Practice, Cambridge, CU Press. Lave, J. and Wenger, E. (1991) Situated Learning, Cambridge, CU Press. Leach, J. & Moon, R.E.(1999) ‘Recreating Pedagogy’ in Learners & Pedagogy, London, Paul Chapman. Leach, J. and Moon, R.E. (2000)...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...Psychology, Vol. 96, No.1, pp.1 - 10. Mody, S. (2015) Emojis: The death of the written language? CNBC, https://www.cnbc.com/ 2015/ 06/ 24/ emojis-the-death-of-the-written-language.html (Accessed 9 November 2018). Schmandt-Besserat, D. (n.d.) The Evolution of Writing, https://sites.utexas.edu/ dsb/ tokens/ the-evolution-of-writing/ (Accessed 9 November 2018). Smith, K....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...psychological phenomena. Key factors impacting on the success of an evidence-based approach include: Misconceptions about the idea of evidence-based practice Sources of bias Professional fads and fashions Power, politics and careers...Exploring evidence-based policing: 5.1 Misconceptions about the idea of evidence-based practice - Several common ‘myths’ and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...psychological, and social factors that affect children and young people. Understanding wellbeing cannot therefore be seen in isolation from social contexts. This might include the nature of children and young people’s relationships in families and care contexts. It might also reflect where children and young people live as well as economic and domestic circumstances....
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...psychological state of customers. Often all three types of input – materials, information and customers – are transformed by the same organisation. For example, withdrawing money from a bank account involves information about the customer's account, materials such as cheques and currency, and the customer. Treating a patient in hospital involves not only the...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
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Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...psychology progress: empirical validation of interventions’, American Psychologist vol. 6, no. 5, p. 410. Šverko, B., Babarović, T. and Šverko, I. (2008) ‘Chapter 27, Assessment of values and role salience’, International Handbook of Career Guidance. Dordrecht, Germany: Springer Science & Business Media...Week 4: Developing my personal brand: Further reading -...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...psychological symptoms. (Kaye, 2020; Hillard et al., 2017). Some of the most common symptoms are shown in the following figure. [Described image] Menopause can impact on just about every area of a person’s life – work and career, close personal and family relationships, friendships, and social lives, as well as on their inner lives, with confidence, self-esteem,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs