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How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...Open University's Environment courses As seen in other articles in this series (see below), our digital lifestyles are not carbon-free, and the digital technology products and services we both buy and sell all contribute to our collective carbon emissions. The Jisc Exploring Digital Carbon Footprints paper states that the current best estimates put the internet’s carbon...
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Discovering the dark side of the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering the dark side of the Moon

...and has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in journals of high-scientific standing. He currently chairs the UK-node of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) comprising of over 100 members from 15 UK higher education institutions. In the video below, Mahesh discusses the far side of the moon and why we need samples from it. Transcript...
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Effective approaches to mentoring: what works and why?
Education & Development

Effective approaches to mentoring: what works and why?

...Education and beyond). The project’s findings showed that a range of approaches to mentoring of student teachers are needed in order to be effective and that these need to be tailored according to the mentee-mentor dynamic. The project elicited thick descriptions of experience from participants by requesting them to bring an artefact (object, image or subtitle) which...
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TESSA: Equal Opportunities for Pupils
Education & Development

TESSA: Equal Opportunities for Pupils

...Education in Sub Saharan Africa) initiative... TESSA - Public Holiday Kwame tries to ensure that Ejike will not ruin his appraisal but Ejike ends up saving the day TESSA - The Smart Father Linus deals with bullying in a clever way. TESSA - The Lost Boy Ejike suffers from a crisis of confidence and runs away. TESSA - Seeking Help Florence helps a pupil overcome her shyness...
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Theories and concepts in family meanings
Society, Politics & Law

Theories and concepts in family meanings

...Open University's Megan Doolittle joins four leading academics from the field of sociology to tackle the issues head on. They look at how families communicate and behave, and they talk about family personal life and what is meant by the term 'intimacy'. Finally they discuss the future of family studies. The Open University course DD101 Introducing the social sciences,...
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Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...opened my eyes to the ways in which larger people, including myself, are marginalised because of their size. This ultimately led me to my current research drawing on clients’ and therapists’ experiences which support the development of size affirmative practices in psychotherapy and counselling. The below points represent some of the key learning from my own journey...
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Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...open to the public as a show cave with impressive stalactites and stalagmites and an underground lake. Other caves are only accessible with specialist equipment and experience, though guided access is available. On the surface, streams emerge and abruptly disappear underground into swallow holes. Their valleys, formed when the ground was frozen during the last Ice Age...
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Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

...Open University's Environment courses Reducing digital carbon footprints of digital assets The digital carbon footprints of our technology assets are split between the carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions caused when manufacturing, storing and shipping the products and the emissions generated through use and disposal. As discussed in the responsible procurement...
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