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Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...de l'ame: on obsessive and harmonious passion’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 85, no. 4, p. 756...Session 3: Exploring identity and overtraining: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Ben Oakley. It was first published in July 2019. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made...
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...adults all over the world: (a) Vietnam. (b) United Kingdom. By contrast, health problems that cannot be transmitted between individuals, such as heart disease, diabetes, lung cancer, arthritis and depression, are known as non-communicable diseases (or NCDs). However, a few NCDs also have an infectious component, for example: in most cases of cervical cancer there is...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...adult life. The extract in Box 4.2 reinforces this point. Box 4.2 Becoming a leader Becoming a group leader almost inevitably brings about significant changes in our relationships with group members. People who previously reacted to you as a peer or friend suddenly have altered their posture towards you. You're 'up there' and they're now 'below' you; they 'report to you';...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...adults in the world are overweight and over 600 million of those are obese. At the same time, 600 million adults are underweight and 264 million women of reproductive age are affected by anaemia due to iron deficiency in their diet (WHO, 2017). WHO also estimates that 41 million children in the world under the age of five are overweight or obese, while 155 million...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...adults, but I wish they’d act that way. Some days it’s like they’re fighting in a school playground. I don’t know if they expect me to be their headteacher, but it’s not something I’m comfortable with. Previous attempts to talk to any of them about this have wound them up further. That said, I’ve got to do something; it can’t go on like this – it seems...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...de-escalation zones in Syria, but recent Israeli air strikes and the looming threat of Western action against Assad bring in the very real spectre of direct clashes – with Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Russia on one side, and Western and Israeli forces on the other. Turkey Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University At the end of their trilateral Syrian summit on April 4, the...
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...de Barros, C.M., Rebelo-Harris, B., Meads, C. and Saunders, C.L. (2021) ‘Are we asking the right questions? Working with the LGBTQ+ community to prioritise healthcare research themes’, Research Involvement and Engagement, 7(1), p. 64. Available at: https://researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40900-021-00298-7 (Accessed: 23 April 2025). Darko, N....
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...De La Rue and Neil Henfrey of Boots, now a brand for the international pharmacist Alliance Boots a banking risk management specialist – Hor Chan Head of the Department for Accounting and Finance at the Open University Business School – Martin Upton. It examines the financial risks that organisations are exposed to and how they are addressed by management. The audio...