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Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...Health [A crushed coke can caught on a drain] Is it down the drain for Coca-Cola and other sugary drinks? Andrew Street, professor of health economics, University of York The government is implementing sugar taxes on soft drinks as recommended by Public Health England in its October 2015 report on Sugar Reduction. Consuming too much sugar causes tooth decay and leads to...
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Verbal fluency
Health, Sports & Psychology

Verbal fluency

...mental processing as well. Doing a task like coming up with many different types of fruit names involves using the association area of the brain, the prefrontal cortex. Studies using brain scanning have shown that this part of the brain is especially active during such tests. Being reasonably fluent with words is important for communication. However, being able to produce...
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Article 5 mins
Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, WELS); Gavin Williams (Staff Tutor, Education, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, WELS); Roisin McPhilemy (Staff Tutor, Education, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, WELS); Sue Creed (Staff Tutor, Education, School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, WELS); and Deborah Marinetto (Associate Lecturer,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...mental health, physical health and personal relationships. Whitty and Buchanan (2012; 2016) argue that victims of online dating romance scams suffer a ‘double hit’, as they suffer the loss of a relationship as well as experiencing financial loss. The survey conducted by Buchanan and Whitty (2014) showed that there are large individual differences in the degree of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Water supply and treatment in the UK
Science, Maths & Technology

Water supply and treatment in the UK

...health... Water supply and treatment in the UK An introduction to the contents of this album. Preserving water A panel discuss how safe, affordable drinking water is supplied in East Anglia, one of the driest parts of the UK. Treating water Computer graphics reveal the processes at Hanningfield Reservoir, providing drinking water to 60,000 people. The panel explain the...
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Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?
Science, Maths & Technology

Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?

...wellbeing, and lots of examples of fear in historical and cultural contexts. But not what I was looking for. I wanted to understand fear in terms of a process to manage the experience and deal with it. I wanted to understand in methodological terms – in systemic methodological terms. I also wanted to understand fear across boundaries - be they medical, psychological,...
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Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...mental wellbeing is maximised and in which choices and behaviours that benefit future health are understood. A Wales of Cohesive Communities Attractive, safe, viable and well-connected. A Wales of Vibrant Culture and Thriving Welsh Language A society that promotes and protects culture, heritage, and the Welsh language, and which encourages people to participate in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?

...health and social care sectors. Unlike the UK’s often brutal neo-liberal model of high flexibility and insecurity, the Dutch model specifically tries to balance the demand for flexible working with the security needed by workers, something the EU calls “flexicurity”. The Dutch system protects carers from falling into in-work poverty and de-skilling by having higher...
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