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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...researchers inflicted simulated drought impacts on wheat and grasslands in a test area in the United Kingdom. They looked at carbon and nitrogen cycling effects and found that the grasslands’ fungal-based soils were better at coping with drought impacts. But once the drought stress ended, the bacteria-based soils with wheat regained their function quicker. The Loess...
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Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...research studies with this goodness of fit orientation is that of Lerner and colleagues: The ‘goodness of fit’ concept emphasizes the need to consider both the characteristics of individuality of the person and the demands of the social environment, as indexed for instance by expectations or attitudes of key significant others with whom the person interacts (e.g....
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Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...research projects, the first being Quiet Sustainability. We’re trying to work out why it is that so many people in post-socialist countries, Poland and the Czech Republic in our case study, are growing so much of their own fruit and vegetables. We call this quiet sustainability because they’re just getting on with it, without any great hoo-hah about it being an...
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Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...research on the stories and experiences of young children whose families have migrated to the UK made visible through documentary photography...[Photos from Karen Horsley] Although there is often a surprise at the idea of young children using cameras intentionally to communicate and tell visual stories, my study, and others before, exemplifies their ability to do so....
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Deep oceans can help us understand our climate
Nature & Environment

Deep oceans can help us understand our climate

...research comes in. [Oceans, Circulation and AMOC Graph ] Chart shows deep ocean salinity measurements Early-middle Eocene Oceans My PhD will look into reconstructing the structure and circulation of Atlantic and Southern Ocean during an interval of time known as the early-middle Eocene, approximately 45 to 50 million years ago. The early-middle Eocene was a time of...
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Living in a globalised world
Society, Politics & Law

Living in a globalised world

...Research into migrant workers' conditions of employment shows great inequality. Water scarcity The uncertain future of clean water facilities for the people of Juarez, Mexico. Re-using waste water How nearby El Paso, on the other side of the border to Juarez, has built a new waste-water treatment facility. Dividing up the Rio Grande The tense relations between Mexicans...
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Making connections in end-of-life conversations: essential tips for professionals
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making connections in end-of-life conversations: essential tips for professionals

...research findings to consider how health and social care professionals might navigate patient preferences for communication. There are three key strategies which can help: Determine patient preference along the spectrum of wanting full, partial, or non-disclosure of information. This can include, for example, medical results, prognosis, or treatment options. Determining...
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A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...research of Lofthouse et al. (2010) on developing coaching among teachers. Read the following quote to help you complete Activity 1. It is widely accepted that mentoring usually takes place at significant career events, such as induction and taking on new roles, it has an element of gatekeeping and the mentor is almost always someone more senior in the organisation and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs