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Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?

...health’ (Veganuary 2024 campaign report). Veganuary’s mission also appears to align with the motivations of participants: in 2022, 44% of Veganuary participants cited ‘animals’, 21% ‘personal health’ and 19% ‘the environment’ as their main motivation. For Bryant, the biggest Veganuary motivation being ‘animals’ is significant, as evidence suggests that...
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Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...wellbeing of those touched by it. So the questions are worth asking. And the quest to discover ‘good’ development management is one that is worth undertaking. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T878 Capacities for managing development...Discovering development management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...mental health issues (education and early intervention) in primary and secondary schools in Northern Ireland. They have designed mental health toolkits for teachers to use with students, they lobby politicians to try and improve mental health provision in schools, and they undertake research. Impact: They have already had some key wins on improving ......
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...mental health difficulties make prison life particularly difficult and damaging for girls and young women. Compared to boys, they are three times more likely to have been victims of sexual abuse and twice as likely to have spent time in local authority care prior to incarceration. Girls and young women need an interpersonal focus to make their resettlement after custody...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...Health Service], say). But if concentrating on parts of the problem initially seems easier, it always ends in tears, adversely affecting the system as a whole, raising costs and making it harder and harder for managers to see the link between causes and effects (Caulkin, 2006). Clear systems thinking is one of the basic literacies of the modern world, not least because it...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
What were Victorian pauper's graves like?
History & The Arts

What were Victorian pauper's graves like?

...health. Mr Townley, a respectable tradesman residing close to the church, complained of the practice adopted in the churchyard, which he said was most distressing to the sight and injurious to the health of the inhabitants of that crowded neighbourhood, and he hoped something would be done about it. Mr Tyars, the deputy of the ward, and who is also churchwarden, said that...
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What is Alzheimer's disease?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Alzheimer's disease?

...treatment to alleviate or reduce the damaging effects of this disease. Various treatments and preventive measures are being investigated, including the use of hormone replacement therapy, vaccines, and substances that aim to break down the protein deposits in the brain. Extracted from The Open University course Understanding Health. You might also be interested in:...
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Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology

...health and feel better in myself as well. Building belief in the potential for successful technology use Transcript. I have learnt to use my emails and Zoom and also learnt how to use my touch screen and how to go to different things on the telephone and choose what I need. Teaching people with learning disabilities how to use their learning technologies Transcript. We...
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