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Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...education sector, can be incredibly time consuming. Indeed, it can and does take years. A lot of my work is with the police, and partnerships might take a year of establishing trust and building relationships with individuals, and another year of working things out at an organisational level. On more than one occasion, I’ve spent time building a collaboration for it to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...educational project, the request for an ‘interview’ will seem just plain strange! And if it feels strange to them that may well affect what they say to you. Second, especially when you are undertaking a practice-centred inquiry, the people you might need to talk with may not believe they have the time for a formal interview, whereas they’ll be relaxed ‘chatting’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...education and then training. This can present problems as situations can change, leading to over- or under-supply of critical resources. The next section looks at the influence of timescales on how demand and capacity decisions are made...Capacity and demand management: 6 Demand Analysis: four components of demand - Simple models of demand break down the total demand into...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...technology for vaccine development had come a long way in the last 20 years, and I had a reasonable expectation that it could be applied quickly to the novel virus. I was much less certain about how long it would take to complete vaccine trials. However, as it happened the urgency of the pandemic meant that trials were accelerated so as to quickly identify effective...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...Technology Solutions in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material within this course. Figures 1, 2 Institute of Cancer Studies, University of Birmingham; Figure 10 Science Photo Library; Figure 12 From Flies and Disease, Vol....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...technology that works like the radar speed traps designed to identify speeding motorists. In this kind of device, the exact time difference between the reflections of successive radar pulses is measured electronically, and from this the speed of the reflecting object can be calculated. Thus rainfall radar gives a means of assessing wind speed at the cloud base, from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...technology. Just because it is difficult to see a use at the time does not mean that there will not be some important practical development later! Activity 1 Organising a dinner party Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes Sandy and Les are having some friends round for dinner. There will be six of them sitting round their circular table, but unfortunately not all their...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...technology park in Valencia, la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, a wonderful example of modern Spanish architecture. Key learning points Description of a famous public place Adjectives: gender and number...Beginners' Spanish: Getting around: 1.1 La Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias - Vocabulario ocio (el) leisure consta de consists of ojo (el) eye bóveda (la) vault...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs