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Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...managers and 21% of professors are women. Without structural changes, women will continue to struggle to gain recognition as independent investigators, leaders (British Council, 2022; Babcock et al., 2017; Guarino, 2017) and members of relevant committees (Bagues et al., 2017). Gendered language in academia Biases manifest through everyday language that describes similar...
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How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?

...project. DEAD GOOD are death workers and death educators, and have experience in supporting bereaved neurodivergent children and families. DEAD GOOD retains the copyright for the images used. The Grieving Divergently pilot project work has been supported by funding from the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness. [The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and...
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Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...management, by day 6 of filming the project was already 5 days behind schedule! The thing is, neither boundless freedom nor boundless choice are conducive to creativity and innovation but can in fact have the opposite effect. In the absence of these constraints, Cimino and his team struggled to make effective decisions. So how then does an excess of choices impact on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...Project - University of Iowa Computer Science site Have a go yourself (although perhaps starting with paper in the first place is cheating...?) TranscriptInk Ink & pigment recipes - from the Travelling Scriptotium Have a go yourself: TranscriptBooks Papermaking with plants: creative recipes and projects using herbs, flowers, grasses, and leaves by Helen Hiebert, Storey...
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Paul Tucker On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Nature & Environment

Paul Tucker On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Manager at Northampton Partnership Homes. Paul gained his OU degree course in Environmental Management and Technology, qualifiying with first class honours in 2019. He started postgraduate study towards a Masters in Systems Thinking in Practice in 2020 and completed the first module, Managing change with STiP (TB872) and enrolled in a second module, T891, Making...
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Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...managed a project. You could think about managing your project in a similar way. Or I use some of the techniques I've used. They're much more specific and much more guiding. ALMUTH MCDOWALL So what is the difference between coaching and mentoring? Both are used a lot in organisations, but I think there are some fundamental differences. Now, let's talk about coaching...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...managers and staff of older adult residential and day care facilities. It explains what relational care means and how relational care practice can be introduced or extended. Studying this course will enable you to apply a toolkit developed from research for use in your own care settings, with groups and/or individuals. You can work through the course independently or with...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Active Citizenship in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Active Citizenship in Wales

...project at The Open University, aimed at improving the political understanding of young people aged 16-24 in the UK, through the development of resource(s) that help them to better understand how to be active citizens. More Initially focusing on Wales and young Welsh people aged 16-24, the Changemakers project has used a variety of research methods, such as online surveys...
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