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Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...research (2011, 2015) has found that it is extremely rare for anybody to have what used to be thoughts of as a ‘male’ or ‘female’ brain: most people’s brains display a mixture of features. And on the level of experience, over a third of people said that they were to some extent the ‘other’ gender, ‘both genders’ and/or ‘neither gender’. Superqueering...
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Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...research, and campaigning. She is still interested in finding a trustee role, but has found her experience on the committee to be really worthwhile. It has given her the chance to apply some of her professional knowledge and experience, as well as develop new skills, and be part of something that she’s passionate about. Being part of the committee has given her the...
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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...research, we’ll decide that the premise is true; or perhaps we won’t. It isn’t obvious whether Your Argument passes the first test. In contrast, My Argument does pass the first test. At time of writing, Williams has won the most Grand Slam singles titles since tennis professionalised. But does it pass the second test? Well, you might reasonably wonder why I am...
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Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...research publications. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/facts (accessed 18/5/2018) Seabrook, E. M., Kern, M. L., & Rickard, N. S. (2016). Social networking sites, depression, and anxiety: a systematic review. JMIR mental health, 3(4), e50 Seo, H.S., Jeong, E., Sungwon, C., Kwon, Y., Park, H. & Kim, Inseong (2017) Neurotransmitters in Young People with...
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How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...research. One trend that isn’t debated is the rate of growth in digital technologies. This has been growing exponentially since the commercialisation of the transistor, and continues to, despite global events. Digital technologies are responsible for carbon emissions from their creation, through to their use and disposal, and their sustained exponential growth will...
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An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...research and computing power are being put into making better AI systems, but there's a sort of ‘artificiality’ at the moment to both the text that is generated by AI, and the sound that AI can generate or the images it produces. So, if you read AI-generated text, it's very fluent, it's usually grammatically correct, but it's boring! It doesn't take strong opinions...
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Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...research had investigated the intersections of these two critical aspects of disadvantage. So, two of our Black tutors interviewed a sample of Black students studying one of the Access modules. As a result, we elicited a rich seam of (often unheard) Black student voices. Following analysis, and to preserve anonymity, we merged the findings into a series of personas which...
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Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and School of Public Policy, University College London He is an economist, writer and consultant on climate change policy and strategy. From 2004-10 he was special adviser to Gordon Brown, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister, with responsibility for environment, energy and...
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