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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...
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Article 30 mins
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...
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Article 5 mins
Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?
Nature & Environment

Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?

...careful consideration with no easy solutions in sight. The human-wildlife conflict First is the relatively more straightforward ‘human-wildlife conflict’, where animals and people compete for space and resources and, in extreme cases like with the tiger, kill each other. Globally, the nature conservation movement’s strategy has been to create human-free ‘protected...
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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...
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Article 5 mins
Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...Care must be taken here: the cheapest funds are usually of a very short-term nature and over-concentration exposes the organisation to extreme refinancing risks. For example, agreed overdraft facilities are usually the cheapest form of lending available to most organisations, but the facilities can be withdrawn ‘on-demand’ by the bank and so it is unwise to rely...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...careful research rather than assumptions, common-sense or guesswork. [Prehistoric cave painting, including human hands.] For this reason, social scientists are deliberate about the kinds of questions they ask, and how they go about trying to answer them. Three basic foundations of social science thinking include: Asking questions, particularly those which start with...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Succeeding in postgraduate study Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...to your family and friends – perhaps they can offer support (e.g. help with child care, walking the dog etc.), or read your drafts and listen to your ideas. When time is tight, decide what is not going to be done – or will have to be done differently – by adopting the 4Ds approach: Do it. Dump it. Delegate it. Do it less well...Session 1: The nature of Master’s-level study: 9.10 What if you fall behind? - Nearly all ......
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...adults and children actually need to see it happen in order to believe it. After the first cut, you should have a band that was twice as long as the original and half the width. The second cut produces two connected bands of the same length but half the width – a less obvious result. A useful general strategy for stimulating pupils’ curiosity and channelling the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs