1,924 search results
A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
Education & Development

A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience

...technology. Dr Timnit Gebru, April Christiana Curley, Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks were the four Black women whose cases we analysed, as they had previously worked at Google, Facebook and Pinterest. Our preliminary findings suggest that a lexical approach is insufficient to detect all cases of online misogynoir. Nevertheless, our qualitative analysis reveals that...
View article A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
Article 5 mins
The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...technologies coming before your eyes. How this transformation happened is one of the great questions of historical study, and not just for academics; whether you’re interested in the environment, social issues, or the sources of prosperity, the history of how economic modernity came to be really matters. Historians have been debating this subject for years, and the...
View article The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
Article 10 mins
The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...technologies used in the cotton manufacture. For example, in a passage added to Anderson’s The Origin of Commerce in 1789, the journalist William Combe wrote that “some years previous to this period, an event happened which portended a considerable revolution in the manufactures of Great Britain. This was the invention of Mr Arkwright’s celebrated machine, which is...
View article The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
Article 10 mins
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...Technology continued to advance and in 1984 Steen Willadsen, a Danish embryologist working in Texas, succeeded in cloning a sheep using a nucleus from a cell of an early embryo. This exciting result was soon replicated by others in a host of other organisms, but it only seemed to work when early embryo cells were used. Researchers began to think that animal embryo cells...
View article Cloning
Article 30 mins
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...Technology moves fast, but the means of understanding its movements do not, given the new media theory’s obligate and persistent homage to Deleuze’s early nineties programme. The gratuitousness of this reference today, combined with the lack of specificity concerning contemporary implementations of cybernetic modes of machinic governance, might just as well introduce...
View article Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
Article 15 mins
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...educational and employment life-course opportunities. [A photograph of the bottom half of six people standing in a line. In front of them is the text: youth.] Between 2010/11 and 2018/19 there has been almost a billion pounds of funding cuts to youth services, some areas in England and Wales now have no funding (YMCA, 2020). Youth transitions are longer, less stable –...
View course Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...education, or the next step in developing your career – can be exciting and scary. If it’s a hybrid organisation, and your first day is in a remote location rather than a physical workplace, that can be even more disorientating. This course aims to help you navigate your new organisational culture, build relationships with your work colleagues in a hybrid environment,...
View course Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...educational achievement - but what is motivation? If we understand motivation a little better, we might get better at helping students to succeed...[Giving up - an image by Dee Ashley] give.up by DeeAshley Did you get where you intended to in life? Are you as healthy, wealthy and wise as you want to be? If not, perhaps the problem is a lack of motivation. Some studies...
View article Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Article 5 mins