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Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...Economic growth is supposed to work the same way – increased wealth this year allows us to spend and invest to produce more wealth next year, with this continuing year after year. Of course, the sound from the loudspeaker cannot get louder and louder forever, populations of organisms don’t actually go on expanding forever, and whatever economists may say, economic...
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...economic running and swimming are difficult to combine in the same animal...Studying mammals: Return to the water: 2.4 Staying warm … - In this section, you will meet the term 'thermal conductivity' and you will be asked to accept that it is 'a measure of how readily heat flows from a particular material'. You may be uncomfortable about the lack of detailed explanation...
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...economic bias or the reflection of a situation that has since changed. Internal company or organisation reports These may be useful in a few situations but should be used sparingly, particularly if they are not readily available to the wider community of researchers. They will also not have been through a process of academic review. Such unpublished or semi-published...
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). (An example is the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership between Brunel University London, the Open University and the University of Oxford.) Alternatively, the funding body may be a separate organisation that supports PhD research with a specified focus. (As just one example, the Association of Commonwealth Universities...
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...economic factors, with richer and/or more densely populated areas being better represented. Population density also reflects geography; deserts and high mountains are usually sparsely inhabited. Why is there a relative imbalance in coverage between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres? The Southern Hemisphere is under-represented in terms of coverage, because compared...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...economic and political context helps shape how businesses respond to global challenges...Introduction to operations management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the input–process–output framework, the extensions of it, and apply them to a wide range of operations examine the types of transformation processes occurring...
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...economics and politics of contemporary development. What are the similarities and differences between the mineralogical compositions of the basalt, S3, and the meteorite, EETA 79001? Discussion It isn't easy, is it? Take, for example, question 3: is it just ‘about’ Victorian culture? What would your tutor say if you wrote all you know about Victorian culture? He or...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...economic, the political, the professional and the ethical. You will now move on to consider the notion of leadership as embodied in a leader in the case of Kids Company, a charity operating in England during the 1990s until its closure in 2015...Week 2: Leadership as person: traits leadership: 2 Camila Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company - Camila Batmanghelidjh is a driven...