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Finding women in Greek literature
History & The Arts

Finding women in Greek literature

...writings of Herodotus. These authors and their surviving texts provide invaluable evidence concerning the culture of ancient Greece. I want to look at a topic which is of great interest to students and scholars of the classical world – namely Greek women – and to consider some of difficulties involved in reading what are essentially literary texts for historical...
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...Write brief notes below or in your notebook. Discussion Perhaps your employer or organisation provided support and learning opportunities to manage the change required. How far did this help you, or might something else have worked better? If your organisation didn’t offer you support through this change – consider what you could have done instead to explore learning...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...creativity. John F. Nash Jr , the mathematician protagonist of A Beautiful Mind, who suffered from delusions as a result of his schizophrenia, apparently said that the reason he believed such wild ideas was because they came from the same place as his mathematical ideas. It certainly is hard to describe how mathematical thought or inspiration occurs. Mathematical thought...
QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...writing this article I asked for information from CONCACAF regarding data on their head coaches but there has been no response. However, among the prominent teams in the Caribbean, which I have based on the FIFA rankings, Jamaica is ranked 64 and their head coach is Heimir Hallgrímsson. He is White and was the former coach of Iceland, managing them at the 2018 World Cup...
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Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...write down and plan your goals. If this doesn’t resonate with you, there are other goal setting tools available, such as HARD (heartfelt, animated, required and difficult) and PACT (purposeful, actionable, continuous and trackable), which we don’t have time to cover in detail here, but that you can easily explore using your preferred online search engine. Here is...
Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below (including any Proprietary material referenced in the course) is Proprietary and used under licence and not subject to Creative Commons Licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figure...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...writing are: Headspace Stop, Breathe, Think The Mindfulness App. If you don’t want to use an app, the following websites are run by some of the major mindfulness researchers and practitioners in the UK and the USA. These pages include a number of audio meditations that you can play: Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World mindful: taking time for what matters Pick...
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...writing about slavery, we usually talk about ‘enslaved people’ rather than slaves. This language is important because it acknowledges the humanity of enslaved people, instead of using the description forced on them by their enslavers. This course also uses language that accurately describes people’s experiences and complex identities within their own political and...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs