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Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview
Education & Development

Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview

...attention to writing the proposal. It is important to present a proposal designed around a clear focus. For instance, a title such as ‘how does technology affect learners in schools’ is not well defined or clear enough. These decisions may change once you are engaged in your research, but at the proposal stage you will need to outline a plan of research that is new,...
What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology

...attention can increase epinephrine levels, heart rate, and decrease cortisol levels. This demonstrates that flying can sometimes replicate the results associated with exercise and the reduction of stress levels (Owton, 2022; Vaughn et al., 2021). A combination of techniques (known collectively as psychological skills training) that are often drawn on by sports...
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...attention, from the shift to low-latency networks and centralized storage systems (e.g. data centres) to the logistical technologies ensuring the synchronization of networked activities across the topologies of these new economies of capture. In this world, anonymity is a central principle of operation. While anonymity is most often understood in terms of a refusal of the...
Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship

...attention to the fact that ideologies are part of everyday thinking; they are symbolic resources that people draw on in lay political reasoning. This is what makes ideologies so resilient: the fact that they may become taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of the social world. This point has been made, for instance, with regards to the ideology of nationalism and...
How does a Bill move through Parliament?
Society, Politics & Law

How does a Bill move through Parliament?

...attention becomes drawn to the proposal through press coverage and, on occasion, vociferous campaigns for and against the Bill by groups affected by it. At the end of this debate a vote is taken and a majority of the Members of Parliament must be in favour of the Bill in order for it to progress any further. What is the Committee Stage? At this stage a detailed...
Invasion of the killer pumpkins
Money & Business

Invasion of the killer pumpkins

...attention, and sales. Displays aren’t there just to look good but to do a job of work. Furthermore, retailers love seasonal lines – the kind of stuff you only buy at Christmas, Easter and, now, Halloween. They represent that rare thing, a new market opportunity. Instead of slogging it out over the daily bread and beans that everyone sells, supermarkets offering novel...
Colour in Byzantine Art
History & The Arts

Colour in Byzantine Art

...attention of the faithful and hold their gaze, primarily because they direct them to an even more important theological issue, expressed through colour: the glory (mandorla) which engulfs Christ. It consists of three circles of different colour: the inner, which is dark blue (almost black); the middle, which is light blue; and the outer which is white, just like...
Esports: an introduction to the industry
Science, Maths & Technology

Esports: an introduction to the industry

...attention to competitive gaming, but it was the growth of PC and online gaming in the late 1990s and early 2000s that truly transformed esports. Esports popular games such as StarCraft, Counter-Strike and Quake started international tournaments, while the rise of broadband internet enabled players to compete globally. By the 2010s, the introduction of live streaming...