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Dr Matt Balme on modelling the landscape of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Dr Matt Balme on modelling the landscape of Mars

...research priority area, gives us a tour of his laboratory and shows how he models the landscape of Mars...Transcript On the subject of his latest research, Dr Matthew Balme, said: “Our team has been looking for potential landing sites for the ExoMars Rover – a European mission that will look for signs of ancient life on Mars. One of these sites is called Aram Dorsum...
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Imagining Scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Imagining Scientists

...researchers have explored stereotypes of scientists. During this time they have attempted to isolate the small number of essential, simplified criteria that represent a scientist. This work began in the 1950s when two cultural anthropologists, called Margaret Mead and Rhoda Métraux, drew on the perceptions of American high-school students to produce a image of a...
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Chance, Risk and Health
Science, Maths & Technology

Chance, Risk and Health

...research in agriculture, medicine and industry. Measuring the Unmeasurable Combining genetics and statistics. Today's cutting edge research into the human genome uses Fisher's concept of maximum likelihood. The Quest for Certainty A Lonely Genius. Experts reveal the logic behind Fisher's ideas and their phenomenal legacy. Brink of a New Era Foundations for computer...
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About Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

About Stories of Change

...researchers, politicians, business leaders and campaigners. These interviews have been recorded in support of the Stories of Change project. Roger has also drawn on the interviews for his BBC Radio series on climate change in advance of the key December 2015 climate talks at the 2015 Paris Conference of the Parties (‘COP21’). The £1.5m Stories of Change project has...
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Wales and music: a conversation with Huw Stephens
History & The Arts

Wales and music: a conversation with Huw Stephens

...research interests lie in the relationships between music, theology and religious practice, and the history of music in Wales. His work on music, theology and religion has been principally focused on music and religious practice in Britain since the eighteenth century, and in the Methodist movement more widely. [Dr Helen Barlow] Dr Helen Barlow Senior Research Fellow,...
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What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...research and this idea that you need to get things right. As somebody who was interested in history to start off with, did that fascinate you more than daunt you? Do you like the fact that you have to familiarise yourself with certain things before you can begin the story, or does it not work that way for you? EMMA DARWIN: I’m equally fascinated and exasperated. I mean...
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Volunteering in the education sector
Education & Development

Volunteering in the education sector

...children to have instilled into them.” Kerrie has been a school governor at a primary school near Llanelli for the past five years, and has recently put herself forward for a second four-year term of office. She has a professional background in governance, having worked as the Corporate Governance Manager at Dyfed-Powys Police before joining The Open University in...
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