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Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...techniques to study the growth and metabolism of chicks there, and compared their data to similar observations on other species of the order Charadriiformes with similar habits (sandpipers, dunlins, turnstones, godwits, plovers and oystercatchers) that breed in the temperate climates of northwest Europe (Schekkerman et al., 2003). They found that chicks of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...techniques, including understanding who your customers are, understanding their particular needs and their wants, and that’s a vital starting point for anything, understanding who you may be competing against because if you don’t have any competitors, it might be for good reason, that it’s not a great idea, or it might be that you’re competing against people that...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...techniques to assist him to improve his speech. Another client we have has a private carer during the day, and we assist her during the night, so we keep in contact with her with regards what to do with that client and how things are going. We don’t have a network as such, but we stay in touch via telephone, emails or meet face to face at the clients’ homes with...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...techniques to set the scene, plot development, perhaps even suspense!) with the historical perspective, helping to explain the past in more general as well as individual terms, and, by extension, the present as well...The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK: 7 Votes for women: the First World War and gaining the vote - This section will give you the chance to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...techniques to be used to obtain data, and then, finally, the analysis of these data.] Figure 10 An overview of the research process You will have come to realise that methodology and hence research design can often require the researcher to adopt different data gathering and analytic approaches, which then elicit different types of data and findings. Sometimes more than...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...techniques for looking at public opinion. I think those six key points that we would use to identify the core of liberation psychology. ...Social psychology and politics: 5.2 Consolidation quiz - Before you go on to the next section, check your understanding of some key concepts that have been covered here. Activity 9 Consolidation quiz As you saw in the interview extract...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...techniques and practices through the eyes of these same non-Western cultures. Non-Western people often conclude that anthropologists, missionaries, or other Euro-Americans with whom they come into contact do not love their children or simply do not know how to care for them properly. Practices such as isolating infants and small children in rooms or beds of their own at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...technique for attachment researchers (Ainsworth et al., 1978). The procedure has eight episodes, designed to expose infants to increasing amounts of stress in order to observe how they organise their attachment behaviours with their parents when distressed by: being in an unfamiliar environment, the entrance of an unfamiliar adult, and brief separations from the parent....
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs