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Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...Project Michael Jacobs interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer MJ: = Michael Jacobs special adviser to Gordon Brown from 2004-10, participant RH: So I’m in a restaurant in Bonn and the climate change talks have just broken for the evening, in so far as they ever do properly break, and I’m sitting having a beer, a Kölsch, which is a speciality beer from...
An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare

...manage situations accordingly. Regulatory frameworks: simulation is also used to evaluate digital health technologies from a regulatory perspective. For example, the Simulation for Regulation of SaMD (SIROS) framework helps assess clinical simulation methods to ensure they meet regulatory standards, while the full ASPiH Standards can be viewed here. These applications...
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...project for another year, had won backing from parents, children, and traders. He said the scheme had been misrepresented as a curfew intended to reduce crime, but had instead been driven by the need to protect vulnerable children and encourage their parents to take more responsibility. He said: ‘The suggestion that officers are going around like dog-catchers snatching...
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 I’m Krishan Arora, I’m a consultant for SBS Television, which is Australia’s public channel, second public channel, and I’ve previously been a BBC commissioner in the specialist factual area and also a documentary producer. Environmental programmes: A limited audience? I think the issue with environmental programmes...
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 I’m Krishan Arora, I’m a consultant for SBS Television, which is Australia’s public channel, second public channel, and I’ve previously been a BBC commissioner in the specialist factual area and also a documentary producer. Environmental programmes: A limited audience? I think the issue with environmental programmes...
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...projects are still very popular around the world, particularly in the USA and East Asia. Studying a community through a discussion of its culture – songs, habits of life and vignettes of individual lives is prefigured in The Souls of Black Folks. Du Bois sets out at the start the key concepts in his thinking: double consciousness: African Americans can see society both...
First steps towards embedding sustainability in learning design
Education & Development

First steps towards embedding sustainability in learning design

...Project ‘Connecting Communities and Heritages against Climate Change’ which helps identify opportunities to develop confidence relating to sustainability actions and skills. By reflecting on prompt questions, it aims to support improving personal confidence by quantifying it, supporting you to increase your confidence through personal development actions. The...
Music as therapy in nineteenth-century Scotland
History & The Arts

Music as therapy in nineteenth-century Scotland

...Project. The first of these songs, the glee 'Birks of Aberfeldy', was written by Burns in 1787, during a tour of the Highlands, and makes use of a traditional tune 'The Birks Of Abergeldie'. It was arranged as a three-part glee for male or female voices by Harriet Abrams (c.1758–1821), an English composer and Soprano based in London. Abrams studied with the composer...