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The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace

...skills can help us to be more successful in both our personal and professional lives: developing better relationships; adapting to, and coping with, challenging situations; and improving mental wellbeing...What is emotional intelligence all about? There have long been debates on the psychological abilities needed to thrive through change and complex situations, that there...
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Article 10 mins
Professional Doctorates projects
Education & Development

Professional Doctorates projects

Wondering what our Professional Doctorate students from the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies do? Check out these case studies of their projects.
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Article 5 mins
Find your motivation
Miscellaneous

Find your motivation

Finding the motivation to study in the winter months can be tough. We've gathered some useful resources to help you banish the blues and supercharge your studies.
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Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...skills in, building positive relationships with people who might have different life experiences and values. From this perspective, Peace might be seen as a verb, the (sometimes hard) work and effort of co-operation and communication that human beings carry out in their everyday relationships with each other. What is intercultural competence? Peace and intercultural...
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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...studied for decades, with research indicating a clear correlation between these three strands, often linked to the amount of reading undertaken (e.g., Wigfield and Guthrie, 1997; Hebbecker et al, 2019). Many psychological researchers, viewing reading as an individual endeavor, highlight extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. Others, looking through a broader social-cultural...
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Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...skills; my parents however, were not averse to their daughters pursuing careers. Additionally, during that era, my father emphasised that an educated woman had a much better prospect of marriage than an uneducated one. The teacher training college was located quite a distance from my immediate home so the prospect of leaving home and all my friends and family was daunting...
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Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...study project based in Africa, this unit illustrates the powerful use of systems diagramming for international development management. This is a companion course to Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities...Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships, is a free course that introduces you to the diagramming techniques of Influence diagrams,...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...studying this course, you should be able to: define sustainable innovation analyse sustainable innovations within a specialist area evaluate and measure the impact of sustainable innovation engage with the social impact of sustainable innovation with confidence reflect on key learning and applications to professional practice...Sustainable innovations in enterprises: 1...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs