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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,...
How gender equality can help fix the construction industry
Society, Politics & Law

How gender equality can help fix the construction industry

...children. While the data is simply unavailable for women in the building trades, recent Department for Education figures suggests an alternative reason. Just five years after graduation, long before starting a family, women engineers and architects are already being paid less than their male counterparts. The lack of career progression that this suggests increases with...
Exploring the role of Associate Dean in UK Universities
Money & Business

Exploring the role of Associate Dean in UK Universities

...research tending to look at more clearly defined positions. The purpose of this paper is to report on initial data from an on-going Leadership Foundation funded project investigating the role of Associate Dean in UK universities. To answer the study’s research questions, an embedded, sequential mixed methods design has been adopted. Read more: Exploring the role of...
From Conversations on co-production to participants’ engagements
Society, Politics & Law

From Conversations on co-production to participants’ engagements

...research, and have aimed at fostering learning through arts and digital arts as well as social engagement. The co-production of this work has been part of the knowledge exchange between academics and arts, and depended on encounters between artists and researchers, asking questions, exchanging stories, dispelling myths: “Literally,” as Áine O’Brien of Counterpoints...
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...
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...
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...
The many forms of workplace bullying
Money & Business

The many forms of workplace bullying

...research on the subject I have discovered there are generally five different types. These can include “overt acts” – such as threats or actual violence, demands for resignation, verbal assault or “subtle acts” like teasing, gossip or banter. Then there are “work related acts” such as micro managing, limiting options for annual leave, giving too much or too...