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Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...researched and written about embodied carbon of buildings - only one part of what we need to think about for our built environment, as we face a future increasingly affected by climate change. [Construction site, sky full of cranes] What is the built environment? Our built environment includes physical objects such as buildings, roads and pavements, sewerage treatment...
Are you ready for online study?
Digital & Computing

Are you ready for online study?

...research explored tutors’ observations of digital challenges faced by students studying degrees online at The Open University during the 2024–25 academic year. Tutors were asked about the issues they saw among their students. The findings: the digital divide is less about owning digital technologies and more about being able to use them effectively for study...
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...research hasn’t advanced very far. The overwhelming focus in the field now is on dogs – and the African rats. When someone with TB coughs, he or she exhales compounds produced by the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. If the TB is advanced enough, the smell of these compounds can even be detected by people. In 2002, when research to investigate the...
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...Research also suggests that parents and carers express a strong desire for children to find a degree of challenge in their lives, as well as discovering things they can excel at and master (Streatch et al., 2023). As Tony says in the clip, ‘we had to exist in his [Sam’s] world and learn how he was thinking to maximise on his life opportunities’. This reinforces the...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
WhatDoTheyKnow
Society, Politics & Law

WhatDoTheyKnow

...online." It was initiated by non-governmental organisation/charity and encourages people to participate through an online platform. WhatDoTheyKnow is local and national in orientation and concerned with democracy, politics and represention, neighbourhood and community and research, knowledge production and information access. It was launched in 2008 and is ongoing....
The Skills Network
Society, Politics & Law

The Skills Network

...from and support each other. It was initiated by non-governmental organisation/charity and encourages people to participate through organising and campaigning. The Skills Network is local in orientation and concerned with democracy, politics and represention, neighbourhood and community and research, knowledge production and information access. The project is ongoing....
SecureDrop
Society, Politics & Law

SecureDrop

...by Freedom of the Press Foundation. It was initiated by a non-governmental organisation/charity and researchers, scientists and educators and encourages people to participate through an online platform. SecureDrop is local, national, transnational and global in orientation and concerned with participation and democracy, politics and representation. The project is ongoing....
Article 5 mins
Past-Time Lover: Cleopatra
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Cleopatra

...children to rightfully rule over many lands. Octavian, the grandnephew of Caesar, who was unrightfully named heir instead of my son, convinced the Senate to declare war against Egypt. During mid battle, I took flight to return home with my ships, followed by my lover Antony, whose weak-minded soldiers deserted him for Octavian. After Antony took his own life, distraught...