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Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...care should be taken to ensure that communications with other stakeholders (senior management, line managers and other members of staff in the departments affected, and so on) are not neglected, as it is easy for 'us and them' distinctions to develop...Groups and teamwork: 2.3.3 The matrix team - In a matrix team, staff report to different managers for different aspects...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...adults it is easy to be drawn away to the world of being serious and attending to more ‘grown-up matters’. Even when you do access your imagination it can often be through the lens of someone else’s thought as you read a book, or watch a film or television programme. Yet for adults, imagination is arguably important for ‘even the most minimally creative thought’...
Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...careful not to become over-reliant on transcripts. If you are reading the subtitles rather than listening to the speaker, you can get a very false idea about your listening comprehension abilities, as most adults are better at reading a foreign language than understanding authentic speech. One possible strategy is to always listen at least twice to a recording without...
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...care - The body mass index (BMI) is sometimes used to help determine whether an adult is underweight or overweight. It is calculated as follows: Body mass index equation left hand side equals right hand side mass in kilograms divided by left parenthesis height in metres right parenthesis super two Although care needs to be taken in interpreting the results – for...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...care of the academic family?’ Research in Higher Education, 58(6), pp. 672–97. Hamilton, B. and Manias, E. (2006) ‘‘She’s manipulative and he’s right off’: A critical analysis of psychiatric nurses’ oral and written language in the acute inpatient setting’. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 15(2), pp. 84–92. Heilman, M. E. and Caleo, S....
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...care and honesty. The ways of working might need to disrupt assumptions and expectations, for example of needing paper evidence of signed consent, in settings where this might raise cultural or political concerns, or be considered disrespectful, and where oral methods of gaining consent might be more appropriate, (University of Oxford, 2021), and confidentiality, such as...
How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...careful planning and IT policy development to ensure WiFi networks remove login barriers to become the default carrier for the thousands of potential users across their sites. In many countries the cost of mobile data has reached a price-point that it’s often not worth the bother of trying to login to a WiFi network if it’s just data that will be saved. Organisations...
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...care and power intersected across contexts. Perhaps most importantly, CoAE embodied the principle we were advocating; Black mothers’ experiences are a legitimate source of knowledge about the systems we navigate. In Mothering at the Margins, we modelled the kind of research that treats lived experience as expertise. Rather than treating our perspectives as subjective or...