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Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...style productions. She currently produces every aspect of her work, from research, script writing, filming, presenting, and editing, with the primary goal of inspiring her viewers to actively engage with the natural environment around them. In 2012 she established the production company Song Thrush Productions, and has received national and international recognition for...
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...style of telescope which is no longer made. It’s called an equatorial telescope. It has one axis parallel with the axis of the Earth, around which you can rotate the telescope to counteract the rotation of the Earth. And then a second axis which allows the telescope, the dish to move north/south. Dallas Campbell: I mean, this one must have been one of the first. Well...
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...style of the very best London streets at the west end of the town, but, not being of brick, they are greatly superior." SEANDAMER But within fifty years this image had been utterly transfonned. Here is a description of the city in 1849. MICHAEL PERCEY AL-MAXWELL (from "Glasgow Observed", page 86, edited by Simon Berry and Hamish Whyte, pub: /987 Edinburgh: John Donald...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...profiling’. In the past the general rule was to reduce the amounts invested in high-risk investments. The logic for this was that greater certainty about the money you were going to have at your disposal was needed as you got older – so high-risk investments with volatile prices were best avoided. The position has changed in recent years. Longer life expectancy plus...
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...et al., 2005, p. 30) Figure 1 Categorisation of customers by cost and profitability For a commercial organisation, the extent to which it should enter into a relationship is likely to be determined (in large part) by the potential profitability of the customer. Customers can be categorised into four groups: Sleeping giants: these customers generate a lot of profit, and...
Llywio drwy les: Edrych ar iechyd meddwl a lles
Health, Sports & Psychology

Llywio drwy les: Edrych ar iechyd meddwl a lles

...et al, 2015). Ânt ymhellach gan ddweud nad oes posibl i ni fod mewn hwyliau cwbl hwyliog oherwydd nad oes gennym reolaeth lwyr ar ein hamgylchedd, na rheolaeth dros yr hyn sy’n digwydd i ni. Yn hytrach, mae cyfleu emosiynau negyddol i ymateb i sefyllfaoedd anodd mewn bywyd yn gwbl iach i’r meddwl. Mesur lles Gan ein bod yn meddwl am ein lles personol, ac yn ei...
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...et al 2018): people don’t relate to each other anymore as members of the same community, but instead called upon to become either border guard or suspect of being an undocumented migrant. The hostile environment policy has come under public criticism in the wake of the scandal surrounding the Windrush Generation of British citizens and migrants from the Caribbean who...
Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...et cetera. So, if we look at work experience, it can be anything. It could be work experience in a hospital, which is a traditional way that medical students come into medical school but it’s important to remember that there are some areas of the country without a district general hospital, for example, Powys in Wales, and those students making an application to medical...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr