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Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...M.J., Gascon, M., Perez-Leon, D. and Mudu, P. (2019) ‘Green spaces and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies’, Lancet Planet Health, 3, pp. 469-77. Uebel, K., Marselle, M., Dean, A.J., Rhodes, J.R. and Bonn, A. (2021) ‘Urban green space soundscapes and their perceived restorativeness’, People and Nature, 3(3), pp. 756-69....
Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...analysis – Defender Perhaps the apex of Gallagher’s hardboiled blues came with 1987’s Defender – as close to a concept album as he ever got – with each song portraying the sleazy underbelly of a city and offering a tough, realist look at the constant fight between morality and survival. [Album cover - Rory Gallagher, "Defender"] Album cover for Defender. Source:...
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...Mottaleb, K. A. et al. (2019) ‘Spending privately for education in Nepal. who spends more on it and why?’ International Journal of Educational Development. Elsevier 69(C), pp. 39–47. Thapa, A. (2015) ‘Public and private school performance in Nepal: an analysis using the SLC examination’. Education economics, 23:1, pp. 47–62, DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2012.738809...
Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...Mortality: Analysis of Evidence from Plantation Records’, Social Science History, vol. 3, no. 3/4, pp. 86-114. Williams, E. (1944) Capitalism and Slavery, Penguin. Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. Leviathan, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968, Leviathan.p65 (mcmaster.ca) Locke, John. 1993. Two Treatises of Government. Everyman. London, England: Phoenix Government...
Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...data. As I do this, it makes me think about what the questions are really asking and what conclusions I can draw from them. It also tells me what sort of analysis I can do. I do this because in my early years as a researcher I found that I got people to complete my surveys and then found errors and problems that defied analysis.’ Unstructured interviews At the opposite...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...analysis. As a first question, what do you think might be included in the term visual art? For the art historian, visual art is a broad category of study, including traditional fine arts, such as drawing, painting and sculpture, together with communication and design arts (for example, film, television, graphics and product design), architecture and environmental arts...
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...data, so an enormous amount of analysis needs to be done. We've made a start. Those have shown some really interesting things. For instance some of the geese's heart rate actually dropped to about 40 beats per minute overnight. That's really, really low; you wouldn't even expect to see that in a human. But the really astounding thing we saw was a 25 hour long flight where...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...Analysis, application of general principles, problem solving and so on are all capabilities required for learning effectively both in higher education and in the workplace. It is these various abilities to learn which are now seen as priority outcomes for graduates. Ability to pass examinations does not guarantee that a graduate has a critical grasp of knowledge or can...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs