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Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth
Education & Development

Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth

...research a part of your assignment so here again is an opportunity to think more expansively about your sources and how they can help bring to life your writing. Linking explicitly to a video or audio that you have recorded may not be technically possible within the assignment marking process, however you could take the opportunity to provide short but pithy extracts from...
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Choosing a Cosmic Name
Science, Maths & Technology

Choosing a Cosmic Name

...research student Sam Jackson using images from the OU’s robotic telescope, PIRATE, part of the OpenScience observatories] Animated image of Asteroid 69423 Openuni, made by OU research student Sam Jackson using images from the OU's robotic telescope, PIRATE, part of the OpenScience observatories. Asteroid 69423 Openuni celebrates the 50th anniversary of the OU’s...
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Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.

...research has reported that around 1 in 100 young people is transgender (Clarke et al., 2014), which means more people confront these challenges than many might initially think. Unfortunately, despite recent advances in the public visibility of transgender people and stories, experiences of exclusion and mistreatment are sadly enduring. [Trans student bullying] According...
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A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis
Nature & Environment

A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis

...research, which was also supportive for my future work. This is the way I transformed through academic research, spiritual practice, knowledge and awareness of environmental issues, the quest for sustainable future and my trust in people’s participation. One of the core values in socially engaged Buddhist concept is ‘Kalyana mitta’ (Good friends who can provoke your...
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How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?
Science, Maths & Technology

How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?

...research can be longer term and we do that precisely in research[..] we never know whether some of them make viable business applications but we want to push the technology. Larry Page, Google ex-CEO and the current CEO of Alphabet announced about this big change on the Google blog, hinting that Alphabet will focus on big projects with Google continuing with its search...
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What do volcanoes tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do volcanoes tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?

...Researchers have previously spotted various clusters of small and evidently quite young “cones” – symmetrical hills with summit craters – but their origin has always been controversial. They could be true sites of volcanic eruption, but they could equally well be “mud volcanoes” formed by expulsion of mud from below ground or “rootless cones” formed by...
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Europa’s icy shell
Science, Maths & Technology

Europa’s icy shell

...research. Interestingly, the moon has a notable lack of craters and mountains, suggesting the surface is quite young and is regularly changing, similar to Earth’s surface with its tectonic plates. Other ‘geological’ features include ridges (1–2 km wide) extending across Europa’s surface, evidence of sub-surface material forcing its way to the surface. There are...
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Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too
Society, Politics & Law

Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too

...research suggests the key disadvantaged group on which universities could have a quicker, and more transformative impact, are mature learners who are limited by personal circumstances to part-time study. These part-time students include everybody from adults who missed out at 18 and aspire for a second chance while working and learners with low or alternative entry...
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