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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...data and imperfect models. That’s just the way that science is, and any area of science is like that. So it may be that we overestimated the warming with these models. That’s true for this period. As I say, if you do look at the long-term 60-year timescale, 50 or 60 years, the models are getting it about right, so it’s really this focus on the short term that’s...
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An introduction to floodplain meadows
Nature & Environment

An introduction to floodplain meadows

...data from Chamberlain et al. (2010). Footnotes Footnotes 2 0–10 cm data from Lawson et al. (2018). Floodplain meadows sequester more carbon than an intensively managed grassland with only one or two plant species, due to their high diversity. The associated root diversity (see Figure 2) means more of the soil volume is used, allowing higher storage of carbon. [Described...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...data suggests the problem is more about an economic culture of profit. Neither of these papers specifically refer to inclusive leadership, rather they talk of leading an inclusive setting. Within the New Zealand setting, staff seem to recognise that the inclusive approach of their leader supports the development of their own inclusive practice, whilst in the Thai context...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...data give a more realistic view of the amount of available solar energy across the planet (Figure 3). One surprising feature is that summer months in Greenland and Antarctica have the highest actual insolation on the planet. That is partly because the Sun shines for 24 hours each summer day, but also because ice caps are usually free of cloud during summer months -...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...data presented. It is also important to note that the understanding of what is meant by creativity has changed considerably over time (Box 1). Box 1 Changing definitions over time Where once upon a time creativity was viewed as a gift of the gods, recent academic theories of creativity can be loosely associated with different decades. In the 1950s, creativity was often...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...analysis In the mid-twentieth century Kurt Lewin, a social psychologist who worked in Germany and America, developed a theory called force-field analysis to think about the way in which changes made in the workplace succeed or fail (Lewin, 1947). It can be applied to any action planning or reflection process. Lewin suggests that any attempt to make changes will involve...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...data modelling, as well as common rules of thumb for identifying improvement opportunities. First, flow charts are developed to show all the steps in a process; the process is then made more efficient by eliminating multiple approvals and checkpoints, finding opportunities to reduce waiting time, smoothing the handoffs between departments, and grouping related tasks and...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
Society, Politics & Law

Explainer: how do you read an election poll?

...data from opinion polls run in single constituencies, which are becoming more common. So a wide range of different methods is being used to produce seat forecasts for the 2015 election – and we won’t really know which is best until after all the votes are counted and we can compare the forecasts with reality. The exit poll An exit poll is a special kind of opinion...
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