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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...research was carried out during the original design, including database searches on suspension bridges. (Arup, 2000a) However, perhaps the consideration that was at the forefront of the bridge designers’ minds was the need for the structure to be both innovative and aesthetically bold. In this Lord Foster and Sir Anthony Caro did not have it all their own way. Sir...
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...researchers and practitioners – to see young people ‘in the round’, rather than as a collection of deficits; to seek ways of building on their strengths to help them navigate an increasingly complex world. The racialisation of social policy around knife crime, gang violence, and terrorism demonstrates how policy isn’t neutral; rather it can feed into longstanding...
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...researchers and thinkers, ‘theory’ is not simply a set of operations and assumptions that are brought to an exterior reality, as if from beyond. Working with theory, couching new theories or modifying received theory are all seen as practices: they are ‘doings’ that are part of the rest of a world of practices or doings. As such, theory makes a difference to the...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...research’ will be a skill fundamental to study and practice. Quite often, to develop that skill, law students will face a task whereby they have to construct the answer, moving from source to source to ensure any updates are covered. This ‘trail’ requires such findings to be logged so that, at any given time, if prompted or challenged on what an authority for such a...
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...Research Online since its launch in 2006? Answer More than 1.2 million. Question 6 How much would an OER university degree cost? Answer According to a 2011 article on the Times Higher Education’s website, Wayne Mackintosh (director of the Open Education Resource Foundation) said that an OER university degree could cost ‘10–15 per cent’ of a traditional...
Children’s wellbeing and creativity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Children’s wellbeing and creativity

...research in the broad area of wellbeing. Second, some of the findings can be applied usefully to the demographic group of children and young people. WHO present the results from this scoping study under two broad themes, presented in the table below, which show how the arts can benefit health at different stages of life. Table 1 PREVENTION AND PROMOTION OF MENTAL AND...
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...research, as well as giving you an overview of the legal requirements attached to this work. The course discusses issues involved in the handling of chemical and biological agents, basic safety procedures and common field-work hazards...Health, safety and risk assessment are of paramount importance both in the laboratory and the field. This free course, Health and safety...
Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...research into potential tailor-made treatments for specific infections. By the early twentieth century, efforts to tackle infectious diseases were focused on finding drugs that killed the bacterial pathogen without harming the patient – so-called ‘magic bullets’. Alexander Fleming’s chance discovery in 1928 of the first antibiotic – penicillin – paved the way...