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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...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 ignoring Grand Slam doubles titles. After all, taking those into account as well, Martina Navratilova has won the most titles since tennis professionalised. And what about Grand Slam titles before then? If...
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Article 5 mins
Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...write research should receive appropriate recognition. Research shows that senior male academics disproportionately occupy top authorship positions even when junior researchers contribute more (Ross, 2022; Larivière et al., 2021). Women who lead intellectual work are often relegated to ‘ghost authors’, with their contributions erased by higher-ranking figures...
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Article 5 mins
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...writes: ‘We are living in a time and space in which the personal – our sense of selves, safety, health, and well-being, and our relationships with others and the planet and our work – is urgently and globally political.’ Addressing the critics Critics of autoethnography often raise concerns about rigour and subjectivity. They ask: how can research grounded in...
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Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...creative and sustainable actions (a plan) designed to overcome one or more core challenges that create value’ (Sola and Couturier, 2014). They go on to say these core challenges need to be overcome as they may be preventing you from delivering your ‘higher purpose’, the ‘ultimate goal’, the reason you, your project, your team, or your business exists. Post the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...creative of any time in the history of mankind. (Kennedy, 1966) This speech took place decades ago, but it seems that in every decade since, something of note has made that decade ‘interesting’ – whether it be man setting foot on the moon, birth control pills, DNA sequencing, the Internet, fibre optics, mobile phones, GPS, online shopping, social media, or services...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: Dana Berry / Skyworks Digital / CfA Week 1 Figures 1, 2, 8, 9,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...creative and strategic thinking ability Activities Creating a shared vision Engendering organisational commitment Caring for subordinates Driving and managing change Problem solving (Adapted from Pearson-Goff and Herrington, 2013, pp. 20–21) To put this in some context, it is worth considering comments made by Edward Flynn, a former chief of police in Milwaukee, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...writing (2004) the dam was near completion. The scheme is enormously popular with the dam contractors and with political parties in those local Indian states which will benefit from the extra water and electricity. It is also popular with those who have had to walk miles to collect water each day and who do not have enough water to irrigate their crops. It is not popular,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs