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Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...project to create a book he had agreed I should write. What helped me? Daily journaling helped me off load during Alan’s illness. Turning my notes into a book helped me navigate my way through grief. I was also lucky enough to have bereavement support from Marie Curie counsellors and the charity Cruse. I carried on writing in my journal after Alan died, but in the form...
Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...project is feasible. Start by specifying the physical or digital context of your research. For example, is it in a classroom, lab, health, social care setting or in the field? Will it be conducted online, offline, or both? Then, outline your research methodology, keeping in mind that your research questions will influence the methodology you choose. You will want to...
Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...project got underway at Virginia Tech in 2008, and the sequence of a hen named Nici was published in 2010. Nici means “Nicholas inbred,” after famed turkey farmer George Nicholas who, at Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms in Sonoma, California, turned the wild bird into today’s barely recognizable top-heavy product of extreme artificial selection. Conventional...
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...manage the engine, and control the braking system. My son’s nursery has a computer that children as young as two can use. The nursery keeps its records on a computer and it has a website. At work, I write using a computer and find information both from the library catalogues and from the internet using my computer. I send and receive emails from colleagues down the...
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...Project I’m Mary Colwell and I am a producer in Natural History Unit Radio. I also do a lot of other freelance work outside radio, outside the BBC. How I got started… Interested in the natural world, very definitely. I used to go for long walks in the Peak District with my dad and we always took a geology hammer and one day we broke open a piece of limestone and...
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...project. This encompassed planned time for reading aloud, independent reading, and book talk, ‘inside-text talk’ and recommendations, all in the context of a social reading environment. Such practice is dependent upon teachers’ knowledge of texts and their children as readers and was seen to be effective in motivating young readers and developing their autonomy and...
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...projects, our deepest self-doubts and our highest hopes… I shall call these words a person's “final vocabulary”. Those words are as far as he can go with language; beyond them is only helpless passivity or a resort to force. (Rorty, 1989, p. 73) I would add to this that, if I were frustrated and my words didn't enable me to justify what I was doing, then I might...
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...management and analysis...Making decisions about the world based on data requires a process that bridges the gap between unstructured data and the decision. Statistical hypothesis testing helps decision-making by formulating beliefs about the world, including people, organisations or other objects, and formally testing these beliefs. In this free course, you will study...
Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs