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Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...working iteratively with the human research ethics committee to support equity-based design and conduct. Alison Buckler illustrates her responses through examples from her experiences within the Ibali project, which has evolved into an international knowledge network, and the CHILD project in Zimbabwe (Power et al., 2021). At one point in the video Alison points...
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Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...work has focused on the concept of personality – a highly familiar, and yet complex, psychological concept. Traditionally, personality is viewed by psychologists as the collection of traits, needs, values, self-beliefs, and social attitudes that make a person unique. This approach also suggests that each person exhibits consistent and stable patterns of behaviour across...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...work of local actors and their meaning making process situated in historically evolving activity systems. Thus, drawing broad generalizations about the practices, tools, and work of local actors from one program or school to another without regard for the complexities and idiosyncrasies of particular institutional contexts may result in unintended consequences. To...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...working-class to the new post-revolutionary state, brought Mexican mural artists international acclaim and Rivera was subsequently awarded important commissions in the United States. Yet, due to his commitment to a figurative form of propaganda, Rivera’s reputation suffered during the Cold War period and these Mexican murals are now largely left out of dominant accounts...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...work has stimulated a massive and very productive field of research with important implications for childcare. This OpenLearn course describes Bowlby's theory and the work that has built on it, illustrated with video recordings of the assessment of attachment in a laboratory setting and a talk by an eminent attachment researcher...This free course, Attachment in the early...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...work of others. (Handy, 1992) There are a number of themes of leadership running through these definitions, including: having a vision, direction and purpose developing and establishing a common goal working with change influencing others giving meaning to others. On reading these definitions, you might have noticed something very important: none make any mention of rank,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...working context, whilst acknowledging much more complex interrelationships within the organisation...Commercial awareness: 1 Understanding your organisation and how it creates value - There are good reasons why you should not stop your investigation at the edge of the organisation, but continue to zoom in through organisational boundaries to explore the activities and...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
We invented the weekend!
Money & Business

We invented the weekend!

...worked a six day week. Then in 1843, in Greater Manchester, workers’ rights activists launched a campaign to finish early on Saturdays. They won, and in doing so, invented the weekend – a gift to workers the world over! We’re marking this enormous achievement with a new and imaginative free festival from Salford. The festival of free time MediaCity and Salford...
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