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Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...multiple species extinction, desertification, ice melt leading to sea level rise, deforestation, poisoning of soil and polluting of rivers and oceans. This is why we give the crisis its full name, not just ‘climate crisis’ but ‘climate and ecological crisis’...Week 1: The climate and ecological crisis and how we got here: 2.1 The Great Acceleration - The starting...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...multiple demand for contingency sites, but also many of these sites were located in areas of Lower Manhattan that were, temporarily at least, closed off to the public after the attack. Consequently, many businesses learned a lesson in operational risk: yes, you do want a contingency site and, yes, it should be close to the main business location so that staff can relocate...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...multiple hands giving the thumbs up, and clapping, with stars all around them.] You have seen how involving children and young people in research that affects their lives: creates better research fulfils children’s and young people’s rights brings benefits for children and young people empowers them to lead their own research and participate effectively in research...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...multiple questions or responses. This is easier for other people to understand and respond to. Try not to worry about asking what you may feel is a naive or obvious question or saying you do not understand. If you are feeling this way, it is likely others are, too. Listening and thinking Listening is as important as speaking. If everyone spoke and no one listened, then...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...multiple times. On the other hand, you’re rarely given a test immediately after listening. This is good news because, as you’ll see, you already have plenty of training of listening in difficult conditions in your mother tongue. Activity 3 Typical listening situations Timing: Allow about 15 minutes Listen to the following recording of a typical listening situation you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...multiple physiological and molecular events during preparation for and entry into torpor. Bioscience, 49, 713–724. Van Breukelen, F. and Martin, S. L. (2002) Molecular Biology of Thermoregulation. Invited review. Molecular adaptations in mammalian hibernators: unique adaptations or generalised responses? Journal of Applied Physiology, 92, 2640–2647...Animals at the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...multiple-choice quiz at the end of each session for you to check what you’ve learned. You get two chances to answer each question correctly, and you can leave a quiz unfinished and come back to complete it when you wish. We’ve called the whole course an MOT because, like an MOT, it’s designed to be a regular check-up. One of the things we all learn as we reach our...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...multiple associations. It spoke to contemporary fears of the overthrow of Christianity by Islam and of the total occupation of Greece (symbolic of civilised antiquity) by the invading barbarian. And yet it is the Turk in Delacroi’'s painting who seems to embody freedom and beauty by contrast with the diseased and (politically) oppressed bodies of the Greeks. Napoleon...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs