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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...managers know that they can risk financial failure without risking the life of the club itself. This is a version of the ‘too big to fail’ problem that affects the banking industry. (Storm and Nielsen described this in 2012). UEFA has introduced the system of ‘Financial Fair Play’ to try to limit the spending of clubs. However, it is not clear that these...
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Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...manager. And the typical expression would be something like ‘The manager was incompetent.’ So we asked our skilled linguists to help us understand what was in the meaning of the word ‘manager’. And, in fact, we found there are two meanings of ‘manager’. One is ‘the manager’ is almost the brand’s representative on Earth. He or she is the person who’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...project employed over 16,000 workers – and it was here, in 1889, that John Ward organised them into one group, the Navvies, Bricklayers’ Labourers and General Labourers Union. Thomas Walker, on the other hand, an engineer who was the main contractor for the canal and had radical ideas and a vision for a new type of industry. Walker cared about the welfare of his...
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How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?

...project – but it’s rewarding, and exciting to discover more about people who inspire you. It’s not just that you find new heroes you’d not heard of before either. Their work can change your thinking. That happened to me when I was looking for an African-American woman scientist to add last year in Black History Month – and discovered the fabulous Margaret Morgan...
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Are old voting machines a threat to democracy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are old voting machines a threat to democracy?

...project that in November 43 states will use voting machines that are at least a decade old. [ Diebold Elections System AccuVote-TSx DRE voting machine with a VVPAT attachment] Diebold Elections System AccuVote-TSx DRE voting machine with a VVPAT attachment That’s a problem for three big reasons. Breakdowns lead to lines, and lost votes First, while no one thinks all the...
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Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...project, Decolonising Religious Studies. We first interviewed the Associate Lecturers teaching on A227: Exploring Religion, focusing on their impressions of the curriculum and the difficulties that their students reported. Next, we carried out a survey of all students of A227 in June/July 2021 and held three focus group interviews with nine students in total. We asked...
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The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...Project involves identifying each of these letters in the correct sequence for each chromosome in turn for the whole genome. The human genome comprises approximately six billion, 6,000,000,000, letters (chemicals) of A, C, G and T, joined together in pairs - 3,000,000,000 pairs - in a linear sequence along the length of the chromosomes. The project was made possible only...
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An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...project. They have been advised by their line manager that, by looking at something that is working well, they are ignoring the real problems that should be the focus of their work. d.You are leading a meeting in which you ask colleagues to spend time free writing around an issue and then use this as the basis for discussions. A colleague challenges you as to why you are...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs