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Astrobiology from the ground up
Science, Maths & Technology

Astrobiology from the ground up

...data, conduct experiments and examine the amplitudes, limits and margins of life but there are some fundamental questions about innate properties of organisms themselves, the conditions in which life survives, conditions in which biological diversity evolves on our planet … fundamental questions about life in the extremes that need to be answered. During the Covid-19...
Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...data, it is problematic to generalise small-scale qualitative research findings. Furthermore, home-educating families within and across national and international contexts, are not a homogenous group in terms of demographics, motivations and practices. Rather, home education encompasses a broad spectrum of educational philosophies, methods, curricula, styles and...
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’...
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...
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
Take your teaching online Badge icon
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
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...analysis of your own photographs. Don't assume that once you have studied a photograph, you will have garnered all the information there is to be found. I am constantly surprised at how much I fail to see when I look at photographs. I have given talks using the same images to different audiences. Frequently somebody seeing an image for the first time will point out...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...data and formulate and articulate their own opinions. Your view of geography matters in terms of what and how you teach. Furthermore the opinions of students will affect what and how they learn. Teaching approaches such as conceptual learning and thinking through geography, geographical enquiry, supporting creativity and classroom talk are influenced by learning theories....
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs