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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...writing, Williams has won the most Grand Slam singles titles since tennis professionalised. But does it pass the second test? Well, you might reasonably wonder why I am ignoring Grand Slam doubles titles. After all, taking those into account as well, Martina Navratilova has won the most titles since tennis professionalised. And what about Grand Slam titles before then? If...
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Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...write research should receive appropriate recognition. Research shows that senior male academics disproportionately occupy top authorship positions even when junior researchers contribute more (Ross, 2022; Larivière et al., 2021). Women who lead intellectual work are often relegated to ‘ghost authors’, with their contributions erased by higher-ranking figures...
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Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...writes: ‘We are living in a time and space in which the personal – our sense of selves, safety, health, and well-being, and our relationships with others and the planet and our work – is urgently and globally political.’ Addressing the critics Critics of autoethnography often raise concerns about rigour and subjectivity. They ask: how can research grounded in...
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QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...writing this article I asked for information from CONCACAF regarding data on their head coaches but there has been no response. However, among the prominent teams in the Caribbean, which I have based on the FIFA rankings, Jamaica is ranked 64 and their head coach is Heimir Hallgrímsson. He is White and was the former coach of Iceland, managing them at the 2018 World Cup...
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FGM prevalence and healthcare planning
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM prevalence and healthcare planning

...writing, the 2022 Scottish census data have not yet been studied for migrant and FGM-related data. Northern Ireland Mackle et al. (2018) reported a lack of published accessible prevalence data for Northern Ireland (NI). This is still the case in 2025, restricting understanding of the scale of the issue to inform health and social care service provision. The NI population...
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Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...writing community’ early on in the term. In the first few weeks she invited her students to form groups of their own choice, research a poet from a selected list, then plan and carry out a presentation. Students were encouraged to use the internet as part of this research. At such an early stage in the academic year, when getting to know a group, the ‘freedom’ of...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...writings. Do you notice any difference that may give a clue as to Napier’s intended readership? Discussion The mathematical titles are in Latin, that of the theological tract is in English. Assuming the contents are likewise in these two languages (which they are, in fact), we might begin to conjecture from this that Napier had different readers in mind. Given the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...writing, in the UK, much of the political system seems grounded in conflict. Opposing parties ‘attack’ each other’s positions, a shadow cabinet tracks the every move of government – keeping it in check and arguing vehemently for issues to be seen from an alternative perspective. In such systems, two (or more) teams are involved in the opposition – though we...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs