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‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...psychological claims strongly parallel ideas that council estates generate their own subcultures that signal such places as different from others. This is also replicated by some journalists: The truth is that council housing is a living tomb. You dare not give the house up because you might never get another, but staying is to be trapped in a ghetto of both place and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...Psychology in Practice, 17(4). Said, E. (1978) Orientalism, Pantheon Books, New York. Slee, R. & Allan, J (2001) ‘Excluding the Included: a reconsideration of inclusive education.’ International Studies in Sociology of Education, 11(2), pp. 173–191. Thingstrup, S., Schmidt, L. & Andersen, R. (2018) ‘The purpose of education: pedagogues’ and teachers’...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...psychological wartime tactic, which purports to attack and weaken the entire community to which the victim belongs. From a socio-cultural perspective, sexual violence is used to assert specific political goals by means of humiliation, degradation and the terrorisation of a particular social group. The report describes several situations involving the use of rape and other...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...psychological and social, would be managed. Others argue that even with such holistic care, some individuals may wish to choose when and how they die. However, research suggests that requests for assisted dying or euthanasia actually increase among people receiving hospice (i.e. end-of-life) care (Chapple et al., 2006; Lawton, 2000; Seale and Addington-Hall, 1995). A...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...Psychological Approaches, Saint Louis, MO, C.V. Mosby Press. Bytheway, B. and Johnson, J. (2010) ‘An ageing population and apocalyptic demography’, Radical Statistics, no. 100, p. 4–10 [Online]. Available at http://www.radstats.org.uk/ no100/ BythewayJohnson100.pdf (Accessed 28 November 2014). Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2011) Survey of...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...Psychology of Intelligence, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. The Royal Society (2012) Shut Down or Restart? The Way Forward for Computing in UK Schools [Online]. Available at https://royalsociety.org/ ~/ media/ education/ computing-in-schools/ 2012-01-12-computing-in-schools.pdf (Accessed 7 May 2019). Sentence, S. and Csizmadia, A. (2017) ‘Computing in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...psychology, then spent many years working in commercial research – so, market research – and for both the commercial and for public sector organisations. But also I got increasingly interested in the way that my client organisations spoke. So I would sit in a briefing meeting with Unilever or American Express, or, you know, whoever it was, and I would sit there and...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...Psychology’ at level 3. The schema shows the relationship between the nature of questions asked, data available and appropriate choice of statistical tests to be used based on the selection. It starts off by asking ‘What type of question do you have?’, and by the time you reach one or other of the end points at the bottom, you should have obtained the relevant...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs