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History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...data in UK RED to help study the reading and reception of a literary text analyse individual reading experiences contained in UK RED understand how evidence from UK RED might be incorporated into arguments about the wider significance of reading as a cultural practice...History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson...
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...data set of perspectives for analysis. And equally a different set of participants using the same diagram might not necessarily lead to different perspectives, but simply that this represents the thinking of these particular participants at that time. It does mean that as a ‘researcher’ you need to understand and acknowledge the limitations and constraints that a...
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...analysis of attempts to manage a troll on a feminist web-forum, in which the troll employs a number of tactics (for example name calling, deliberately misunderstanding other users, pretending to be sincerely trying to understand the issues). This troll was clearly a source of ongoing annoyance, and at times was offensive, but the attempts to control him (albeit with...
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...analysis of your product is fried foods. Why do you think fried foods are not ideally suited to being analysed using data tables?...Week 4: What do food labels tell us?: 3 Presenting the data on the packaging - When food is fried, it is very difficult to know how much fat is absorbed in the frying process. You would miss this by just analysing the food itself before it...
Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss

...data from interviews about their experiences of grief following perinatal death, as well as what belonging to a Sands United team has meant to them. As a research team, we have been able to talk about the findings and the importance of creating and facilitating spaces like the football teams have done. We have shared these findings at key conferences which focus on grief,...
Haven't we been told there's water on Mars before?
Science, Maths & Technology

Haven't we been told there's water on Mars before?

...data from telescopes fitted with spectrometers, which analyse reflected sunlight, was interpreted as showing frozen water (water-ice). However, the first spacecraft to Mars found this difficult to confirm, as water-ice is in most places usually covered by ice made up of carbon dioxide. [Part of Nirgal Vallis, a valley on Mars first seen on this image by Mariner 9 in 1972....
Rosetta unexpectedly finds oxygen on comet 67P, surprising scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Rosetta unexpectedly finds oxygen on comet 67P, surprising scientists

...data of another close encounter with a comet, Halley, almost 30 years ago. Glimpse into the birth of the solar system But at present, there is no reason to assume that the oxygen in 67P is a one-off observation. So what does the presence of free oxygen tell us about the conditions in the solar nebula or protoplanetary disk thought to have given birth to our solar system?...
When is the best time to buy plane tickets?
Money & Business

When is the best time to buy plane tickets?

...data indicating how well a certain flight sells. For example, fewer deeply discounted seats will be offered on a flight on Thanksgiving week than on the same flight during the third week of February. As the seats on a flight sell, yield managers monitor and adjust the seat allocation. If, for instance, the sales are slower than expected, some of the seats might be moved...