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Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...become battlegrounds for competing interests, where even the definition of a term might be influenced by the standpoint you adopt (or are given) as a practitioner, manager or service user. Understanding the plural nature of the values that drive people can reduce the risk that you dismiss or downplay others’ agendas. As soon as issues are discussed relating to what...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Relationships at work
Money & Business

Relationships at work

...become home and home becomes work”. Further, one’s colleagues can form an essential part of their social existence. However, there remains serious controversy over whether one should form relationships at work – the subject of this week’s episode. Considering how much time we spend at work, it is not surprising that many people make strong bonds with their...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...become a default form of warehousing some of the most troubled and troublesome people in our society. The welfare of some of those most in need is missed, neglected or ignored and it only becomes highlighted as a problem when these same people are imprisoned. A large number of the people we send to prison have grown up in care homes; experienced abuse as a child or...
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My digital life
Digital & Computing

My digital life

Everything is becoming digital - what does this mean for your life?...[Business person working on keyboard against a technology background] As part of Make it Digital Season we have curated some content around the digital world and how it affects our daily lives:
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Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...Students will be encouraged to reflect on personal and institutional opportunities to lead inclusively, including in challenging circumstances. They will examine the potential of working with leaders beyond their organisation to effect change and build collaborative networks that support inclusive leadership...This free course will enable leaders and aspiring leaders in a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...student, an early-career professional, or an experienced researcher, this course offers valuable tools to maintain productivity, resilience, and well-being throughout your research journey...Facing setbacks and demotivation in research? Progress is rarely linear, and challenges like failed experiments or rejected proposals are a natural part of the journey. This course is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?

...OU series The Ascent of Woman set out to restore women missing from the official histories. In a personal view on the series, Leeds University's Jessica Meyer asks if the series left too many tales untold...In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf imagined that Shakespeare had a sister, a gifted young woman named Judith. Like her brother, she runs away to London to...
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European Championships 2016: Home Nations dare to dream or will it be an early Brexit?
Health, Sports & Psychology

European Championships 2016: Home Nations dare to dream or will it be an early Brexit?

...become increasingly focused after the November terrorist attacks in Paris. The argument against a French triumph is a potential quarter or semi-final against the Germans. Making up the final four Portugal, Italy, Belgium and England will be hoping to get into the semi-finals. Portugal have probably the best European footballer in Cristiano Ronaldo, while historically...
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Article 10 mins