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The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...communication used to inform children about familial crimes reveals that 17% of the children studied were not told about their family member’s imprisonment but found out through their own investigations. The remaining 83% found out either through direct communication from various family members or indirectly through experiences such as being present at arrests or police...
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Article 5 mins
Wellbeing for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing for Work

...community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources. Though often caused by nature, disasters can have human origins.” A disaster such as this not only disrupts the quality of life but can also have a direct effect on individuals’ mental health and...
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Article 10 mins
Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...communicating with professionals exclusively via telephone or email. Black mothers raising children alongside White partners gave examples of ‘deputising’ their co-parent to represent the family, since they had found that this tended to result in more favourable outcomes. Equally, mothers who found that their intuition and expertise were frequently dismissed during...
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Article 5 mins
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...Community collaboration is the cornerstone of EDI in research’ (Texas Centre for Equity Promotion). When setting out to formulate a research question, researchers are working to at least two immediate agendas. Firstly, the priorities of the funders of research, such as funding councils and charities or organisations working across health and social care policy and...
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Article 25 mins
School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...community facilities. These ‘extended schools’, as the government terms them, offer an opportunity for schools to contribute to and work more closely with their communities. Click on the links below: Extended Schools: providing opportunities and services for all and Extended schools: access to opportunities and services for all [accessed 26 January 2007] for more...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
En rumbo: intermediate Spanish
Languages

En rumbo: intermediate Spanish

...la Open University. Personal information part 1 We’re going to listen to street interviews with eight people from different parts of the world giving basic personal information. Personal information part 2 Here are three examples of people introducing themselves and giving basic personal information. What are their names? How old are they? Where are they from? What do...
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Audio 35 mins
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...communication. It is spoken by more people around the world than any other language, and is regularly described as a truly ‘global’ language. This course introduces you to the role that English plays in the world today, and examines the social, political and cultural factors that have influenced its development. It traces the history of the language from its arrival...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...communication, critical analysis and teamwork will promote competence in a wide variety of contexts – from formal organisations to voluntary groups and social movements. This course's learning will be informed by cutting-edge theory in materials developed by experts in leadership, and it will incorporate a mix of contemporary and historical multimedia case studies...In...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs