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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

...psychology. As I was interested in family stability, I didn’t pursue a career in teaching but rather engaged in voluntary work with various organisations including OXFAM in order to understand the areas of family needs in the community. As a consequence of being involved in voluntary work, I met Mrs Elouise Edwards (Mama Edwards) and Mrs Louise Da-Cocodia. These women...
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Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...psychological and practical problems. One of the core issues in adult testing for single-gene disorders such as HD is getting informed consent from the patient to carry out the test. One problem is what counts as ‘informed’. How much does the patient need to know about the science of genetics to make a considered decision concerning a genetic test? But there are also...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...psychology and sociology still do not agree on the properties of an individual’s identity. The disciplines of psychology and sociology are home to two dominant perspectives on identity that are relevant for this course. In the discipline of psychology, researchers focus on the individual and understand identity to be a result of one’s mental traits and dispositions....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...psychology coaching – integrating coaching and positive psychology to enhance performance and wellbeing. Throughout this course, you’ll be focusing mainly on career coaching, although executive and leadership coaching also relate directly to the workplace...Week 1: Where am I starting from?: 1.3 Defining career coaching - Dr Julia Yates, Deputy Head of Psychology at...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...psychology, management or even statistics, will also have an influence, along with the prevailing attitudes from the era in which the term was defined. In more recent times, Northouse (2022, p. 54) describes a growth in ‘moral approaches to leadership’ and, aligned with increasing awareness of the value of diversity within the workplace, the introduction of inclusive...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...psychology, psychotherapy or human resources, or have undertaken specialist coaching training. More management training: typically, mentors have a background in senior management, with limited coaching/mentoring training. 6. Client Dual client: more typically, a dual focus on the needs of the individual and the needs of the organisation. Single client: more typically, a...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...psychological perspective on wellbeing...Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion: 2.2 The PERMA model - Wellbeing is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy’. However, it is important to realise that wellbeing is a much broader concept than moment-to-moment happiness. While it does include happiness, it also...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...psychologically harmed is unavoidable for all animals, whether human or nonhuman, but for criminologists, an increasing area of concern is avoidable harm generated by social arrangements, in short, social harm. Social harms result from contingent social arrangements – those that are not inevitable but could potentially be restructured to be less harmful. ‘Livestock’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs