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Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...children to sit and play computer games rather than be out in the streets, or in the garden, climbing, jumping, running and socialising and playing with friends (Slutsky & DeShetler, 2017). [Kid on mobile phone] Sport and technology are now so intertwined that with the continuous development of affordable products we will have the means to collect an array of data, some...
Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...research projects, the first being Quiet Sustainability. We’re trying to work out why it is that so many people in post-socialist countries, Poland and the Czech Republic in our case study, are growing so much of their own fruit and vegetables. We call this quiet sustainability because they’re just getting on with it, without any great hoo-hah about it being an...
Making connections in end-of-life conversations: essential tips for professionals
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making connections in end-of-life conversations: essential tips for professionals

...research findings to consider how health and social care professionals might navigate patient preferences for communication. There are three key strategies which can help: Determine patient preference along the spectrum of wanting full, partial, or non-disclosure of information. This can include, for example, medical results, prognosis, or treatment options. Determining...
Deep oceans can help us understand our climate
Nature & Environment

Deep oceans can help us understand our climate

...research comes in. [Oceans, Circulation and AMOC Graph ] Chart shows deep ocean salinity measurements Early-middle Eocene Oceans My PhD will look into reconstructing the structure and circulation of Atlantic and Southern Ocean during an interval of time known as the early-middle Eocene, approximately 45 to 50 million years ago. The early-middle Eocene was a time of...
Living in a globalised world
Society, Politics & Law

Living in a globalised world

...Research into migrant workers' conditions of employment shows great inequality. Water scarcity The uncertain future of clean water facilities for the people of Juarez, Mexico. Re-using waste water How nearby El Paso, on the other side of the border to Juarez, has built a new waste-water treatment facility. Dividing up the Rio Grande The tense relations between Mexicans...
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...research and gut instinct I think there’s a lot of intuition in commissioning, speaking on behalf of the commissioners I know; part of the skill that we have to show as programme makers is to tap into their instinct for what makes good television or good radio or what have you. On audiences, obviously there’s pure numbers of eyeballs, if you like, and that’s very...
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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...research) whether this has changed in the last 50 or 60 years? This means that questions like the following are asked: Do men and women share tasks more equally? If this has happened, why? To what extent do our conclusions need to take into account the differences between families? So, these changes are the starting point of this particular social science cycle of...
Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?
Society, Politics & Law

Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?

...research on how states illegally obtain missile technologies and my experience conducting outreach related to U.N. sanctions give me some insight into the methods North Korea used to make illicit procurements and the limitations in using technology-based sanctions to prevent them. Technology-based sanctions In 2006 – following North Korea’s first nuclear test – the...