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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...writing for us, a curious posterity; we can delight in the astonishing completeness of their records but must still be very careful about how we interpret them. In the other sections we will look at two pieces of evidence and invite you to have a go at analysing them critically. We can begin to answer the questions posed here from the evidence in the programmes; but...
A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...writing. But the world that Bowie ended up imagining arguably has as much to do with Burgess’s “world of adolescent violence and governmental retribution” depicted in A Clockwork Orange. Coincidentally, Sonia Orwell also played a bit part in an incident which was formative in the inception of the novel. In 1944, when Burgess was stationed with the army in Gibraltar,...
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...Write down: What happened? How did you respond? What could you do differently next time to grow from this experience?...Building motivation and resilience in research: 1.2 Why research projects are challenging - Unlike structured tasks with clear outcomes, research and creative projects are inherently unpredictable. This unpredictability is what makes them exciting but...
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...write CVs and covering letters, and prepare for interviews and their aftermath. You’ll note from Figure 1 that the blocks can be thought of as a continuous process involving taking stock, exploring opportunities, setting goals and taking action. [Described image] Figure 1 The process of planning for a better future Together they amount to approximately 15 hours of study...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...write this course, the context for work with young people continues to change. A change of government can bring new priorities, but so too can other events. For example, funding for work with young people is being reduced at the time of writing due to austerity measures, and increasingly being concentrated on targeted work with young people. These three issues suggest...
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...creative interaction around texts is likely to be heard, constraining personal responses to reading. In the Teachers as Readers project, teachers’ talk about self-chosen children’s books was initially dominated by a professional focus: they concentrated on what literacy objectives the book was good for (e.g. teaching character, plot, setting and specific language and...
What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?

...Writing about the discipline of education itself, for example, Bridges suggests that: ‘Discipline meant that enquiry was conducted in accordance with some established rules and procedures which provided the basis for among other things distinguishing truth from falsity, warranted from unwarranted belief. The requirement for disciplined enquiry became translated into the...
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...writing a person specification be aware of social and task behaviours that can support an effective team understand a responsibility assignment matrix identify the difference in awareness between team members in a collocated team and between team members in a virtual team be aware of the approaches and techniques needed for a virtual team to be successful...Managing...