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Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...class who look to the police to referee the most contentious of issues. How the failure to address legacy is still a barrier to full political support, and how lack of funding has slowed the physical transition to demilitarise police buildings and vehicles. In 2025, police officers feel burnt out, disillusioned and undervalued. If you listen, there is a reminder that in...
Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...class and race, provides a lens through which the unique experiences of Black women can be comprehended (Davis, 2008) as well as a lens through which we can see the benefits and challenges of effective research dissemination. Enhancing research dissemination and academic challenges Research dissemination is a critical component of academic scholarship and public...
Raising awareness and support for men
Health, Sports & Psychology

Raising awareness and support for men

...class men who are living each day and getting by. To celebrate men’s positive contributions to society: this includes their contribution to the community, to families, marriage, childcare, and to the environment. This might be about encouraging men to teach the boys in their lives the values, character and responsibilities of being a considered and well-rounded...
5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...Class of people exercising] Physical exercise is one way that helps us to prevent fast deterioration of cognitive and physical functions. Decline in all functions is a normal part of ageing but when pathological processes are already present (e.g. dementia) the decline in functions is accelerated and becomes steeper and faster. Exercising regularly has enormous preventive...
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...classes in technical drawing, woodwork, or metalwork, as these were deemed to be boys’ subjects, so Ann was led down the route of learning domestic and commercial skills. When thinking about her working future, Ann’s Careers Adviser told her what they told all the lassies – that she should go and get a job in a shop. Ann received her Leavers’ Certificate, given to...
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...des Sables, which is a six-day race covering 155 miles through the Moroccan Sahara Desert. Cycling – extreme endurance events are referred to as ‘ultra-distance cycling’ and this term is reserved for events longer than 100 miles (referred to as a century). These events can be on roads or trails. For example, the Transcontinental Race in Europe is a race of around...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...de Henares station outside of Madrid (which killed 191 people). Two weeks later Mayfield was released when Spanish police made a positive match between the same fingerprints and another suspect, a match the FBI confirmed as correct. DNA analysis is a robust technique based on sound scientific principles, but even it can fall foul of human error. For 16 years, German...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...class how that relates to what else we now that's what helps us remember it. Now again there's a lot of researches support this idea that most of what we learned is stored in terms of meaning and not according to visual images or auditory sound but from some of the best most relevant research comes from these classic studies that were done in the seventies. Now Chase &...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs