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Capacities for managing development
Money & Business

Capacities for managing development

...change. In the UK, local communities are buying forested land, to preserve forests for the greater benefit of society. In the developing world, forestry commissions are actively empowering villagers to engage in forest management and conservation. The video tracks on this album use case studies in the UK and in India to illustrate ways in which forest management is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Life After Death
History & The Arts

Life After Death

...climate issues. At the same time, there is a popular distrust of many ‘experts,’ with fears that there are hidden or self-serving agendas at play. How do we make decisions from a position of ignorance? How can we evaluate beliefs – such as the existence of God, or life after death – for which there is a general scarcity of evidence? Transcript Ageing Well series...
What Human Rights Day means to me
Society, Politics & Law

What Human Rights Day means to me

...change their nationality. Having done well in school, my late father organised a trip to a border town to celebrate my achievements. The trip was cut short when we saw remains of a dead person floating in Akagera River. Closer to home, human rights are defined as, the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death. They apply...
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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