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Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...resources. My work in this area is informed by my collaborations as a founding member of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) Collective, a trans-national, inter-generational group of researchers, artists, educators, students, activists and ancestral/Indigenous knowledge keepers who work together to develop educational and artistic experiments. There are many...
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...communication is vastly more complex than that of any other species we know about. It is so complex that linguists are only just beginning to identify the processes in the brain that are related to understanding language. This free course, From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language, looks at how language is understood by taking an interdisciplinary
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...human activity is likely to have major impacts on the planet, its environments, and its living organisms, including people. But all of these effects are so interdependent it is impossible to discover what the effects are likely to be by breaking the problem down. Systems thinking characteristically moves one's focus in the opposite direction, working towards understanding...
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...Human computers working on test flight calculations at the predecessor of NASA in 1949 (b) two NASA employees in 1990 programming a computer so it can automatically calibrate aircraft equipment Having met the ideas of algorithms and computational problems, let us state what computational thinking is not: computational thinking is not about us humans following an algorithm...
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...resource examines the ways in which we talk about migration and how we might use these to shape a city wide identity of inclusion, the potential role of the hostile environment in ‘un-making’ communities and how community led solidarity movements are building inclusive practices from the ground up. In the video below, Jacqui Broadhead from the University of Oxford and...
The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...resources of the organising member association,’ (FIFA, 1999), (Mazars & ASCI, 2021) a system inherently disadvantaging African and Caribbean federations compared to their European counterparts. Pipeline development: Initiatives like Madalitso Mkoloma’s International Football Heritage Agency (IFHA) are crucial. Mkoloma is an ex-international player of Barbadian...
Ask the experts: Coronavirus fake news & medical terminology
Science, Maths & Technology

Ask the experts: Coronavirus fake news & medical terminology

...human body fight a viral infection? Prof. David Male - a professor of biology, whose area of research is the immunology of infection. He addressed some of the common questions regarding immunity, such as, what happens when the virus infects us? Can we get immunity from COVID-19 after an infection? Prof. Harith Alani - a professor of web science at the Knowledge Media...
Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Humanities) in Cambridge, where he is a Senior Research Fellow. John recalls “In 2013-2015 David Runciman and I ran a small project on Technology and Democracy which in 2020 led to the establishment of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy in CRASSH of which I was a founder and am Chair of its advisory board. Other stuff: I have been Director of the Wolfson...