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Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...psychological effect on children. And we've met children the morning after they've spent the night in a police station because social services have turned them away. We've heard them sobbing over the phone. We've seen them mute and listless the next day. BYO There's no amount of explanation I'm going to give to him as a three-year-old. He's not going to understand it. He...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...psychological implications of the rapid, often drastic changes that we impose upon our own lives and those of our domestic animals. Antarctica has been isolated from other continents since the Mesozoic supercontinent Gondwanaland broke up and the fragments that became India, Australia and New Zealand drifted away. The rich fossil record in Antarctica shows that a diverse...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...psychological and social ideas opened up by the Enlightenment’s consideration of such places gave way to the application of those ideas to a process of artistic self-exploration and self-expression. And yet, as we shall see, Delacroix was not always so clearly on the side of Romanticism. His 1832 journey to Morocco would be a crucial, transforming influence on his...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...psychology (e.g. Schwarz (2000) and Ubel (2005)). Activity 2 Information constraints Read the extract below from March (1994) and complete the following activity. What are the four main information constraints that March believes face decision makers in organisations? In your experience, are these constraints also relevant in non-organisational settings? View document...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...Psychology Review, 27(3), pp. 391–404. Ghaye, T. et al. (2008) ‘Participatory and appreciative action and reflection (PAAR) – democratizing reflective practices’, Reflective Practice, 9(4), pp. 361–397. GTCS ‘Professional Learning’. Available at: https://www.gtcs.org.uk/ professional-update/ professional-learning/ (Accessed: 2 September 2022). OpenLearn...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...Psychological safety and trust Policies and processes Collaboration Data governance Resilience Online and offline security Transparency Managing information Curiosity Writing for digital platforms Problem solving Copyright Team building Equity, diversity, accessibility and inclusion Sustainability Digital sustainability It is useful to apply a digital lens to these...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...psychologically dominate the discussion, although as the candidate you should do most of the talking, in effect determining the content, while the interviewer sets the format. A few seconds’ silence in an interview can seem an eternity. Don’t be panicked into responding too quickly, perhaps in an illogical way. Fill a thinking gap with comments such as ‘That’s an...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 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