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Dr Stian Reimers is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Psychology at City University London. In this podcast series, he guides us through the fascinating world of the psychology of time. Read More

Lectures and presentations given by members of staff at City University's department of Sociology. Read More

UC Davis psychology lecturer Victoria Cross delivers this course on the developmental account of human behavior from conception through adolescence with emphasis on motor skills, mental abilities, motivation, and social interaction. Read More

A twice-monthly podcast profiling positive, transformative climate action stories from across the globe. Read More

Sword and Scale Rewind, hosted by Matt Fondiler and Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, is the aftershow for the popular true-crime podcast Sword and Scale. Read More

«El pueblo mexicano» es una serie que Descarga Cultura.UNAM integra a su acervo sonoro, pero que originalmente constituyó una coproducción de TV UNAM y Radio UNAM para televisión y radio. Los contenidos, supervisados y escritos por investigadores universitarios, abarcan temáticas que van del origen de nuestros pueblos al análisis de las imágenes nacionales, así como los principales retos políticos, sociales y económicos que actualmente enfrenta nuestro país. A continuación reproducimos “Pueblo mexicano, pueblo mestizo”, dividido en tres cápsulas, las cuales reflexionan en torno a diferentes momentos en la construcción de la identidad nacional. Más que una simple mezcla entre españoles e indígenas, el pueblo de México es producto de su rica historia pluriétnica y multicultural. Producción Descarga Cultura.UNAM / Coordinación de Difusión Cultural / UNAM D.R. © UNAM. Read More

A general introduction to the various fields within psychology. Within each of the fields we will discuss theoretical issues and research findings. Critical thinking is encouraged as we explore the methods and content of psychology. Read More

The Hay Festival brings together writers from around the world to debate and share stories in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders. A host of Cambridge academics and alumni will speak about subjects ranging from obesity and smart drugs to US politics and domestic service at this year’s Hay Festival. 2013 is the fifth year that the University has run it Cambridge Series at the Hay Festival, one of the most prestigious literary events in the world. This year for the first time speakers include alumni such as Chris Blackhurst, editor of The Independent who will speak with Professor Simon Blackburn on the current crisis of trust in major institutions including the press, the police and parliament following a series of scandals. Read More

Stanislas Dehaene received his training in mathematics at the École normale supérieure in Paris, then completed a PhD in cognitive psychology with Jacques Mehler, post-doctoral studies with Michael Posner, as well as neuronal modelling studies with Jean-Pierre Changeux. He has been working since 1997 at the Orsay brain imaging center near Paris (Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot of the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique), where he directs the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit since 2001. In September 2005 he was elected as a full professor on the newly created chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France in Paris.Stanislas Dehaene's interests concern the cerebral bases of specifically human cognitive functions such as language, calculation, and reasoning. The team uses a variety of experimental methods, including mental chronometry in normal subjects, cognitive analyses of brain-lesioned patients, and brain-imaging studies with positron emission tomography, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and high-density recordings of event-related potentials. Formal models of minimal neuronal networks are also devised and simulated in an attempt to throw some links between molecular, physiological, imaging, and behavioral data.Stanislas Dehaene's main scientific contributions include the study of the organization of the cerebral system for number processing. Using converging evidence from PET, ERPs, fMRI, and brain lesions, Stanislas Dehaene demonstrated the central role played by a region of the intraparietal sulcus in understanding quantities and arithmetic (the number sense). He was also the first to demonstrate that subliminal presentations of words can yield detectable cortical activations in fMRI, and has used these data to support an original theory of conscious and nonconscious processing in the human brain. With neurologist Laurent Cohen, he also studied the neural networks of reading and demonstrated the crucial role of the left occipito-temporal region in word recognition (the visual word form area).Stanislas Dehaene is the author of over 100 scientific publications in major international journals. He has received several international prizes including the McDonnell Centennial Fellowship and the Louis D. prize of the French Academy of Sciences (with D. Lebihan). He has published an acclaimed book (The Number Sense), which has been translated in eight languages. He has also edited three books on brain imaging, consciousness, and brain evolution, and has authored two general-audience films on the human brain. He is the associate editor of Cognition, an international journal of Cognitive Science. Read More

El pueblo mexicano es una coproducción de TV UNAM y Radio UNAM para televisión y radio. Los contenidos, supervisados y escritos por investigadores universitarios, abarcan temáticas que van del origen de nuestros pueblos al análisis de las imágenes nacionales, así como los principales retos políticos, sociales y económicos que actualmente enfrenta nuestro país.A continuación reproducimos Los retos sociales y económicos, título dividido en tres cápsulas, en torno a los movimientos de indignados que alrededor del mundo claman por derechos al trabajo, educación y alimento, lo que da pauta para analizar la situación en nuestro país que, a pesar de contar con una Carta Magna que garantiza la inclusión y la igualdad, contrasta con la realidad que viven millones de mexicanos y que suponen un gran reto a superar para el futuro próximo. Producción Descarga Cultura.UNAM / Coordinación de Difusión Cultural / UNAM D.R. © UNAM. Read More

New Directions for Child Welfare in the Coming Decade: Messages from Policy and Practice June 9, 2010 9:00am - 12:30pm Hubert H. Humphrey Center Cowles Auditorium, First Floor University of Minnesota 301 19th Ave S, Minneapolis MN 55455 Read More

We live in a world filled with material wealth, live longer and healthier lives, and yet anxiety, stress, unhappiness, and depression have never been more common. What are the driving forces behind these interlinked global epidemics?In this series, Professor Mark Williams (Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at Oxford University) and Dr Danny Penman discuss the recent scientific advances that have radically altered our understanding of depression and related disorders. Also discussed is the latest treatments and therapies that are offering hope to those suffering from depression.Professor Williams co-developed Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), a treatment for anxiety, stress and depression that is at least as effective as drugs at preventing new episodes of depression. It's now one of the preferred treatments for depression recommended by the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. The same technique, based upon an ancient form of meditation, can also help us cope more effectively with the relentless demands of our increasingly frantic world. Professor Williams and Dr Penman co-authored the bestselling book Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World. Read More

A reported, narrative show hosted by Katherine Goldstein about a new generation of working mothers—not parenting, not kids, but the real, three-dimensional stories of mothers from the campaign trail to the legal brothels of Nevada and everywhere in between. Read More

ConvenersDr Mike Higton (Academic Co-Director, Cambridge Inter-faith Programme, Faculty of Divinity) Dr Marcella P Sutcliffe (AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of History)Co-convenersDr Sara Cain (Early-Career Research, CTO, Corpus Christi College) Dr James Golden (Postdoctoral Research Associate,Cambridge Inter-faith Programme, Faculty of Divinity) Read More

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Sociology provides you with a comprehensive understanding of the rapidly changing nature of contemporary society. With a core theme studied at Plymouth of inequalities, difference and diversity, students gain a critical perspective on a variety of social issues. Read More

La I Jornada de Cooperación Universitaria al Desarrollo, que organiza el Vicerrectorado de Internacionalización y Cooperación de la UNED, pretende informar sobre algunas de las acciones ya realizadas y las propuestas que contempla para el futuro, así como analizar las posibles fuentes de financiación en la actualidad. Read More

This collection is of videos taken of the Social and Developmental Psychology Seminar Series. These seminars attract national and international speakers in the areas of social and developmental psychology to present research talks on their specialist topics. Read More

Safety-organized practices are both practice strategies and concrete tools for "on-the-ground" child welfare workers, supervisors and managers to enhance family participation and foster equitable decision making. These videos include recordings of trainings, examples of the practice, and interviews with experts in the field. Read More

El Primer Congreso Territorial del Noroeste organizó una serie de conferencias en las que diferentes expertos debatieron en torno al desarrollo económico desde una perspectiva regional, y en las circunstancias de una crisis estructural del sistema, con el objetivo de exponer alternativas al modelo y soluciones aplicables globalmente. Poniendo siempre el acento en las personas y sus problemas Read More

In order to disseminate research and engage in public discussion on contemporary issues related to globalisation and social change, the Centre for Global Research initiates and supports a wide range of public forums, conferences, seminars and festivals. Our aim is to provide an intellectually challenging but accessible and collegial environment for discussion and debate. The CGR records many of the these events and presents them here on iTunes U. Read More

Whilst international corporations are taken to court for complicity in human rights abuses and the trade in child labour and sweatshops is still a scourge throughout the world, this event asks whether the international approach to corporate social responsibility of the last ten years has worked.The approach of the last decade has focused primarily on voluntary measures taken by companies and enterprises, and finds expression in codes of conduct and non-binding agreements like the UN Global Compact. The CSR movement originally proposed some measures which should be legally binding on corporations, together with voluntary measures, but this was rejected for a voluntarist approach.Ten years on we can ask: has this worked? Read More

Esta colección reúne grabaciones realizadas desde las Aulas AVIP pertenecientes al I Congreso Territorial del Noroeste Ibérico. Read More

The Research Centre in Brain, Cognition and Behaviour encompasses excellence in Thinking & Reasoning, Memory, Vision, Behavioural Neuroscience, Language Development, Social Psychology, Health & Wellbeing and Human Factors. Read More

Ensemble de séquences illustrant le développement cognitif, moteur et social de l'enfant de 0 à 12 ans. Read More

Née en 1972, à Paris, Esther Duflo est professeur d'économie au Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) et membre fondateur du Laboratoire d'Action contre la Pauvreté, Abdul Latif Jameel (J-PAL), institution spécialisée dans la méthode de l'évaluation aléatoire des programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté. Elle a fait ses études à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure et au DELTA (Paris) ainsi qu'au MIT. Ses recherches portent sur le comportement des ménages, les choix éducatifs, la scolarisation, l'évaluation des politiques, la décentralisation et la microfinance.Elle a a reçu plusieurs prix, dont le Elaine Bennett Prize for Research (2003), le Cercle des Economistes (Le Monde, 2005), Médaille de Bronze (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Département de Sciences de l'homme et de la société, 2005), et le Prix Luc Durand-Reville (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, 2008). Read More

Flux RSS de la Médiathéque de Paris Descartes Read More

l’Institut français de la mode s’ouvre à un large public avec un cycle de conférences visant à mieux connaître et déchiffrer la mode et plus largement les industries de la création. Ce « cycle de conférences de l’IFM » s'adresse aux personnes individuelles et non aux entreprises. Le programme traite tant des aspects historiques, économiques, professionnels, sociaux et esthétiques de la mode, en donnant la parole aux meilleurs spécialistes et aux témoins des grandes transformations des métiers de la création. Read More

Dr Rossetto describes her work on the Virtual Disaster Viewer, which is being used to direct the aid effort in the earthquake-stricken Caribbean island of Haiti Read More

«El pueblo mexicano» es una serie que Descarga Cultura.UNAM integra a su acervo sonoro, pero que originalmente constituyó una coproducción de TV UNAM y Radio UNAM para radio y televisión. Los contenidos, supervisados y escritos por investigadores universitarios, abarcan temáticas que van del origen de nuestros pueblos al análisis de las imágenes nacionales, así como los principales retos políticos, sociales y económicos que actualmente enfrenta nuestro país. A continuación reproducimos “Los pueblos originarios: historia y actualidad”, dividido en tres cápsulas, las cuales nos hablan sobre la transformación que las etnias indígenas han experimentado desde su condición de pueblos originarios hasta la época actual, pasando por el complejo periodo de la Colonia, en que fueron sometidas al arbitrio de la corona española. Producción Descarga Cultura.UNAM / Coordinación de Difusión Cultural / UNAM D.R. © UNAM. Read More

Debido al envejecimiento gradual de la población, muchos países están propiciando políticas de envejecimiento activo. Se trata de un estilo de vida saludable en el que las personas mayores buscan mejorar su calidad de vida. Un factor importante en el envejecimiento activo es la gestión del ocio mediante actividades placenteras que aumentan la percepción de bienestar personal. En este curso se revisan todos estos conceptos y los programas sociales más actuales de intervención con las personas mayores. Fue celebrado en el Aula de Villablino (León) del 9 al 13 de julio de 2012. El curso fue organizado por el Campus Noroeste de la UNED y se recibió por videoconferencia en el Centro Asociado de Ponferrada, A Coruña y Lugo, así como en las Aulas de Ferrol, Viveiro, Monforte y Foz. Read More