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Discovering chemistry Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...type questions you usually get only one attempt). If you get the answer right first time you will get more marks than for a correct answer the second or third time. Therefore, please be aware that for the two badge quizzes it is possible to get all the questions right but not score 50% and be eligible for the badge on that attempt. If one of your answers is incorrect you...
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Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...types of method, and there are those who challenge the distinction itself. For example, they argue that it obscures both the considerable diversity that exists under each heading and also important overlaps. These are certainly vital points to be aware of, but the distinction between qualitative and quantitative approaches nevertheless points to some significant...
Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...type of industry. Walker cared about the welfare of his workers and built homes and hospitals for them. Inspired by new thinking about health and safety, he built first aid centres all along the route. New technology, such as steam powered cranes, also helped but it was their enlightened boss that made the big difference in improving working conditions. The rhetoric...
Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...types of evidence, whereas engineering does rapid tests. Randomised controlled trials do have a vital role, but on their own they’re not the whole solution. There has to be a way of getting our two sides talking.” Only then, she says, will we be able to prevent further tragedies such as the death of Mary McClinton. This article was originally published on Cambridge...
Better regulation or austerity politics? Undoing social protection
Society, Politics & Law

Better regulation or austerity politics? Undoing social protection

...types of responses are indicative of a political context for regulatory enforcement where the idea of regulation is under attack, and are a powerful illustration of how discourses and policies at national level can translate into barriers to enforcement at local levels. While all of the local authorities had seen reductions in staff, this did not just mean a loss of...
Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...type of physical activity will help, as long as it is something we enjoy and suits us and we do keep doing it. Even a brisk 10-15 minute walk will be beneficial, especially if we do it one or more times a day. This also aligns with WHO recommendations of undertaking 150 minutes of exercise per week. The exercise doesn’t need to be strenuous - it can be short, especially...
Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...types of colony, and to idealised images of empire and of Britain’s role as its modernising core. The Empire Marketing Board and the settlement colonies When Highways of Empire appeared in January 1927, The Manchester Guardian noted that it ‘proved so attractive as to cause congestion along the highways of London,’ (Manchester Guardian, 1 January 1927). But it also...
The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.
Society, Politics & Law

The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.

...type of deliberation (Devine, Clayton., & Dunford, 2001). This means that few studies have examined the jury in a realistic setting as possible, so little is known about how they reach a verdict. My PhD research aims to redress this deficit in research by exploring the group decision making processes of the jury and replicating trial conditions as realistically as...