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How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...data says about police brutality and racial bias-and which reforms might work’, Nature, 583, pp. 22–24. Phillips, C. (2011) ‘Institutional racism and ethnic inequalities: An expanded multi-level framework’, Journal of Social Policy, 40(1), pp. 173–192. Rattansi, A. (2005) ‘The uses of racialization: The time-spaces and subject-objects of the raced body’, in...
Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...data for our book, Mothering at the Margins: Black Mothers Raising Autistic Children in the UK. In that moment, we knew that what had started as a ‘collective autoethnography’ (a co-constructed narrative detailing our own shared experiences) had come to represent an invaluable opportunity to amplify and validate the journeys of women like us: ‘othered mothers’...
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...data we would look for in methodological terms that would tell us something about external perceptions of Glasgow. A key source would have to be literary representations of Glasgow, in both fictional and non-fictional forms. In 1799 Glasgow was perceived as a thriving town dominated by the textile industry. It was a prosperous town of considerable architectural elegance....
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...data collected on these services to determine the healthcare quality. Take a look at these graphs showing the waiting time for diagnostic tests or procedures (Quality Watch, 2016). Diagnostic tests or procedures are often required before a patient can be referred to another service and so shorter waits on these tests or procedures are indicative of better quality care....
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History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...data derived from studying prisoners...Session 1: The origins of prison education: 11 This session’s quiz - Well done – you have reached the end of Session 1. You can now check what you’ve learned this session by taking the end-of-session quiz. Session 1 practice quiz Open the quiz in a new or window and come back here when you have finished...Session 1: The origins...
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...data, as was seen in the Cambridge Analytica scandal which has been linked to the 2016 US Presidential campaign and the Brexit referendum. For this reason, some universities and individuals have been reluctant to engage with it...Session 3: The most popular social platforms in Higher Education: 1.1 Students’ use of Facebook - The majority of students who join social...
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...data with Type Ia supernovae (SNe), weak gravitational lensing (WL), baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements and an additional method using galaxy statistics called redshift space distortions (RSD). [Described image] Figure 6 The measured constraints on an evolving dark energy equation of state. The 2018 Planck data (blue shaded regions) are further constrained by...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...data processing and analysis. Learning analytics of the behaviours of large numbers of students can easily fall into the category of big data. But equally, you might look at the behaviour of one class of students over a course and find that useful insights can be gained without advanced techniques and tools. For example, in an online forum discussion associated with a...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs