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Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...public situations. This is also sometimes true of politicians’ published memoirs. Equally useful may be documents produced within organisations for internal consumption that are made public through legal prosecution, via unofficial leaks, or which can be obtained by the researcher through negotiation with those who have access to them. These may offer very different...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...public are regularly bombarded with advertising for ‘stuff’, and particularly technological artefacts such as, ever ‘smarter’ phones, mini remote controlled drones, apps for just about everything, and many other forms of techie gadget. Yet arguably the greatest single innovation of the 20th century (and still as significant today) – the one which most changed...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication
Society, Politics & Law

The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication

...publics and especially young people. Can you describe how these audiences experience working within the installation and how they felt /did afterwards? Gil Mualem-Doron: Before the installation at the Turner Contemporary, commissioned by Platforma, at Margate, which took place three days after the Brexit results, and a few weeks after Jo Cox murder, people suggested that...
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Happy GeoWeek!
Nature & Environment

Happy GeoWeek!

...public to geosciencee via outdoor activities such as urban, rural or coastal fieldwork. You can find out more on the GeoWeek website. Alternatively watch our videos to find out more about the three different types of rocks and learn how to read them on a fieldtrip to your local shopping centre... There are three different types of rock: igneous, sedimentary and...
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Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...publication) is named Agatha Christie. Christie would go on to write about 65 detective novels and some 14 short story collections (not to mention the occasional play) before her death in 1976. Over the years, sales of her books reportedly have reached close to four billion. But for purposes of this poison-obsessed blog, let us stipulate her dazzling success, her famed...
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Dancing to the rhythm of cultures
Languages

Dancing to the rhythm of cultures

...public spaces and temples, but not dance, since body movement did not go well with the idea of religious reverence. In 1685, the archbishop of Seville condemned the dances of the seises but in 1690 the boys were sent to Rome to dance for the Pope Alexander VIII who, pleased with their performance, authorised them again. The legend tells that the Pope stated a condition...
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Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...public or voluntary sectors. In addition, this OpenLearn course discusses the role of operations managers and the importance of focusing on suppliers and customers...Operations management is one of the central functions of all organisations. This free course, Understanding operations management, will provide you with a basic framework for understanding this function,...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...public, everyone has their own angle that they care about. Some people care about the worst case scenario; some people care about the most optimistic, they want to think that everything’s going to be OK; some people want to think about the most likely think that’s going to happen. And so when we’re thinking about risk the best thing to do is really to look at all of...
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