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Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...paradox in that we had a group of, individually, very strong leaders who came together voluntarily to be in this meeting. Paradoxically, what we lacked was strong leadership of the meeting itself. Narrator Despite the lack of agreement on details, the campaign still flourishes because the broad aim of saving Bronglais unifies the group. And most of the work takes place in...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...paradoxically promote an individualised approach in which good health is not only every person's right, but also their personal responsibility. Certainly, it can be argued that much recent health related policy, with its promotion of healthy lifestyles and ‘taking control’ of your own health, seeks to shift responsibility for health on to individuals and away from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...paradoxically, fractured night-time sleep. There is no cure. Yet. In the Kalahari, back in 1995, I was new to these symptoms. I had little sense of the incalculable toll that fighting a never-ending battle against sleep (with defeat the inevitable outcome) would take on mind, body and soul. I was not alone. Few family doctors had heard of the disorder, let alone...
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Article 15 mins
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...paradox in managing core capabilities is that they are core rigidities. That is, a firm’s strengths are also – simultaneously – its weaknesses. The dimensions that distinguish a company competitively have grown up over time as an accumulation of activities and decisions that focus one kind of knowledge at the expense of others. Companies, like people, cannot be...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...paradox: on the one hand, their qualities as deeply experiential places have long been recognised and are well documented; on the other hand, battlefield sites are often unprepossessing places. Moreover, as many battlefields are not marked in an obvious or particular way, they may be ‘invisible’ to a large proportion of the population. Battlefields, by their nature,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...paradox clearly if we return to Weber’s definition of the state. We have seen how territory is crucial to Weber’s definition, but there is also another key element. Weber argued that there was no point defining states by what they do – they do lots of different things. Better, he said, to define it by its means – to ask ‘how does it do things?’ Weber knew that...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change

...paradox, but it is something that we can do. RH: You said that CO2 was in the minds of many linked to climate change, Shell does accept the IPCC findings, I think, doesn’t it? BVB: Yes for,us the debate of climate change is over. I’m sure that you will find also in our company people who will just said, ‘Hold on, but the science isn’t completely conclusive,...
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Audio 5 mins
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...Paradoxically, perhaps, those places experiencing relatively high levels of migration tended to vote Remain, while those which bordered on them were more likely to vote Leave (not the cosmopolitan cities but the neighbouring suburban and peripheral areas). While these distinctions have some explanatory force, it is hard to escape the rather dismissive implications of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs