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Walk the walk: encountering death and dying spaces in hospital
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walk the walk: encountering death and dying spaces in hospital

...to them and what helps them during that time as they provide a “fresh perspective” about a setting. The project has been used in acute and community hospitals, care homes, and general practice. Claire Henry MBE, Marie Cooper, and Roberta Lovick from Walking the Walk informed the creation of this interactive with academic input from Kerry Jones and Erica Borgstrom....
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...communities. In the nineteenth century, the English parliamentary historian Thomas Macaulay graphically described its effects: Smallpox was always present, filling the churchyard with corpses, tormenting with constant fear all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...communication technologies, and discover how computers work behind the scenes...This free course, Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century, provides a general overview of how digital technology has come to dominate virtually every aspect of the modern world and some guidance on how to prepare for this digital life. It also provides a more detailed explanation...
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...Community engagement and policing page....Innovation in policing: Introduction - Although innovation is often seen as typical of Silicon Valley start-ups led by twenty-somethings, organisations of any type, size or can be innovative. This applies just as much as to policing organisations as it does to anyone else. In this course we will consider the nature of innovation,...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...communicate with adults in quite sophisticated ways, and play a full part in family life. Babies who need to be in incubators after birth are now given frequent contact with their carers, whereas before it was thought that they were ‘too young’ or ‘too ill’ to need stimulation and human contact. Severely disabled babies are not routinely now ‘left to die’ and...
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...communicating and working in different ways, in a light and open workspace. Whilst the activity illustrates how organizational culture is embedded in the workplace and helps us to start making sense of it, it does not show us how to search for it or interpret culture clues. A framework – circuit of culture – can help us to do that, and this is introduced in the next...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Would you want your child to become an interpreter?
Languages

Would you want your child to become an interpreter?

...community worker series at my son’s primary school in suburban Sydney. To make my presentation entertaining for little kids, I showed them how to interpret simultaneously between English and Korean. The children were just fascinated by instant language conversions and kept asking me to show them more. While I was delighted by the enthusiastic responses from the kids,...
Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...community centers, playgroups, churches, and private homes, I wanted to explore three questions with them: How they make sense of the diversity they encounter on a daily basis in British and German cities, how they do mothering locally and transnationally, and how they navigate various nationalized, classed, and gendered ideologies of motherhood. A key aim of the research...