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Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...Research on the impact of invasive species on water supply has helped generate interest in today’s integrated invasive plant control effort. More economic studies that illustrate the impacts of invaders and the financial benefits of control are essential to justify the increasingly large-scale funding that the Working for Water Programme requires. By uniting social...
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...research is done into the relationship between audience figures and environmental problems, I assume it’s out there and they’ve made a decision. The only thing I go on is the response we get to programmes that we make. So on Radio Four making Shared Planet which is all environmental issues, we get huge responses from people who want to talk and want to discuss it and...
How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...research balloons are built to be able to fly in the stratosphere in the thin air. Most of the sky would already be dark, rather than blue, for a passenger in such an aircraft. The top of the stratosphere lies at about 50 km altitude. Although there are more rarefied atmospheric layers above, for practical purposes the environment is already much more like ‘space’ by...
Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...research student Zoe Morland...The Moon is the most extensively studied planetary body outside of Earth. Despite this, its formation mechanism is still a mystery. Transcript Astronomy & Planetary Science The Formation of the Moon Zoe Morland: Have you wondered how the Moon was made? The Moon is the most extensively studied planetary body outside of Earth. Despite this,...
Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...research and administrative tasks. There is also real potential for GenAI to help facilitate greater access to justice in the future – but, given the technology's very early stage of adoption and the need for information and outputs relating to legal needs to be highly accurate and contextualised, there are significant risks with respect to using publicly available...
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...Research and Development teams, but many rely on the knowledge, experience and enthusiasm of those in the workforce tasked with planning, implementing and sustaining change. In the previous activity you considered the future. We now explore the idea of a futurist mindset. Activity 2 Do you have a futurist mindset? Timing: 10 minutes In the video below Jacob Morgan, four...
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement n° 770309...This free course, Young people and religion: creative learning with history, will train teachers and others working with young people on how to engage them in learning about religious diversity past and present through the creative process of making short, creative films (Docutubes). It is based on the...
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...research is fraught with conceptual weaknesses. Traditional trait views of leadership are also problematic in the sense that they tend to promote a certain kind of leader, often masculine and white, over alternatives. Despite its weaknesses, viewing leadership ‘as a person’ does involve a definite figure who you can identify, criticise or praise. As a result, this...