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Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?
Money & Business

Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?

...learn how to think like a man” – this being the perception of how to succeed in the tech industry. Thus, women’s efforts to adjust to the predominantly male culture of the tech start-up scene, leads to sexism in accelerators going unchallenged and camouflaged instead. If we want to support the ambitions and great work being done by women entrepreneurs, we must...
App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers
Nature & Environment

App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers

...learned from the changes the intervening century has wrought, Jarvis says. “One is the amount of glacier melt caused by climate change. Shackleton and his men had three glaciers to cross. We had two – and an icy lake to wade through, where the third glacier had been. “The other lesson is about leadership, and how that needs to be applied to an issue like climate...
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...learn about what we don’t know. Open methodologies allow us to destabilise these naturalisations and reveal and resist violence and oppression; to reconfigure social forms, striving for greater equality and freedom. Methods in motion therefore brings CCIG’s research interests in methods together with its research interests in social change. Methods in Motion...
Time to look again at HIV and relationships
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time to look again at HIV and relationships

...than half of the UK public did not believe U=U was true, there is a long way to go. Reducing the stigma of HIV is an important step if we are to achieve the goal of zero new transmissions in the UK by 2030 or globally. So, this World AIDS Day why not take some time to see what’s changed since It’s A Sin, learn about U=U and think again about HIV and relationships....
From space to laboratory in four days
Science, Maths & Technology

From space to laboratory in four days

...learn about the Winchcombe meteorite, with the bulk of the rock carefully curated at The Natural History Museum in London ready for further analyses. For Ross, it was certainly a whirlwind and surreal couple of weeks. Out of all the groups of meteorites, of which there are over 40 in our collections on Earth, the Winchcombe rock was almost identical to the type of...
Bird ringing in Bog Meadows
OpenLearn Ireland

Bird ringing in Bog Meadows

...activism saved the area for wildlife. Volunteers plant trees and maintain the habitats. Flax, the mainstay of Ireland’s traditional linen industry, also grows up in the reserve. Many environmental organisations rely on volunteers to manage areas for biodiversity. (For example Ulster Wildlife and BTCV ). Why not get involved and learn more about your local environment?...
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: How to Manage a Boardroom
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: How to Manage a Boardroom

...learn to operate across a range of international and cultural contexts. With the decrease in middle management, they are also more directly responsible for organisational decisions. Moreover, as the pace of innovation quickens, so too must their strategising. These factors all make managing the contemporary boardroom very tough indeed, as The Economist discusses in their...
Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility

...Learning to cope after a severe cyclone The village of Paikgacha, in Khulna province in the south-east of the country, was hit by a severe cyclone in 1988. This pushed saltwater in from the sea and upriver. After the storm had subsided, it was clear that the composition of the river water around the village was more saline. [Dhaka Bangladesh] Dhaka, Bangladesh There was...