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Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and CESifo. Formerly, he was a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change at Hamburg University and an Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He has had visiting...
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Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...research process and the use of scientific evidence recognise the role and limitations of scientific data in attempting to predict global climatic change understand the concept of feedback loops...Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows: 1 An environmental icon - The polar bear has become an international climate change icon. But how much is known about...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
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...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
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...
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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr