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Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing

...social connections can have a huge impact on our mental well-being and our ability to survive major challenges. For example, the stories of support and mutual appreciation told by individuals nominating a friend for Radio 4’s ‘All in the Mind Awards’, and those featured in that station’s ‘Listening Project’ series, all attest to the healing power of...
Themes in discourse research: the case of Diana
Society, Politics & Law

Themes in discourse research: the case of Diana

...social interaction and its psychological implications for the study of minds, selves and sense-making. The course aims to demonstrate that in studying discourse we cannot help but study social life...This free course, Themes in discourse research: the case of Diana, introduces some of the main themes and issues in discourse research using Martin Bashir's famous interview...
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...work for you. Certainly when I was writing my new book having the social network was a timesaving device for me and really began to be beneficial. My last reason for being open is that it is beginning to offer interesting ways around teaching and education. I work a lot on open educational resources and it’s interesting to see people take these and adapt them for their...
Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...social circle, you don’t have time for them…it’s so easy to get sucked into a vortex of work.’ (Jones, 2017a, p. 917) Against such a background, these head teachers consistently constructed themselves as trying to be empathetic and supportive, seeking to enable the career progression of their staff. Clearly the emotional work of leading, collaborating and personal...
Careers education and guidance
Education & Development

Careers education and guidance

...work at any age – are life-enhancing for individuals and crucial to our future social and economic well-being. They are also an indicator of a good school. This free course, Careers education and guidance (CEG), discusses what a school's personal development programme should provide, and how all teachers have a role in securing successful transitions for their students....
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...social change – urbanisation, industrialisation and capitalism. Detailed work suggests that links between urbanisation and asylums are not straightforward: asylums did not grow up in large cities (which were thought to be inappropriate sites for such institutions), and their patients came from both urban and rural areas. Urban life did not necessarily undermine the...
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...social context, others in paid or unpaid work situations. In this section, you will focus on roles connected to work in some way. All ‘work’ counts for the purpose of this section. Have a look at the example of Angela below. Notice that it is not clear from Table 4 whether the jobs Angela did were paid or voluntary. This is not important since you acquire the skills...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Outdoor spaces for tiny humans
Education & Development

Outdoor spaces for tiny humans

...social and spatial factors that mediate outdoor interactions for babies and toddlers - presented by Joanne Josephidou and Nicola Kemp...In this session we explored ideas around inclusion and opportunities for the very youngest children (birth to two) to be outdoors and in nature. The phrase ‘tiny humans’ was borrowed from Holt and Philo (2022, p. 819) who use the term...