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First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...business that works with other businesses to help them understand their energy use to identify opportunities where they can reduce their energy bills and their environmental impacts. DANNY QUINN: We came up with the idea for the Black Sheep Collective really by just connecting with other artists and creative types that were kind of operating in silos and on their own and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The story of a female postal worker
Society, Politics & Law

The story of a female postal worker

...Businesses must let us use their facilities but obviously, during covid, there weren’t businesses open or there might not even be a business nearby. We are out for 6 hours, it is hard enough in day-to-day circumstances but it is even worse when you are on your period, going through menopause, heavy or unexpected flow. Managers will say if you have to break off and go to...
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Article 10 mins
The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982

...Business Park'.] The former Lovable factory in Wardpark South. Now subdivided units called the 'Cumbernauld Business Park', January 2022. Picture by Thomas Smillie Photography. Lovable’s Cumbernauld operations quickly grew. As well as the factory in the Wardpark South Industrial Estate, two miles from Cumbernauld town centre, they opened warehouse facilities in the...
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Article 10 mins
Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...business community, and that is the central point of this article – the carbon emissions of remote workers. Scopes of responsibility As businesses implement sustainability, climate and NetZero strategies they become acutely aware of the responsibilities beholden upon them across three specific climate-focused scopes. These scopes of responsibility have been defined by...
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Article 5 mins
Migrant businesswomen and the census
Society, Politics & Law

Migrant businesswomen and the census

...Census: migration, gender, and business, and shows how art-based approaches such as storytelling can be used to communicate quantitative Census data. Project team: Dr Carry van Lieshout (The Open University), Gunjan Sondhi (The Open University). Partners: ReWomen (Women of Management and Enterprise Network), CREME (Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship)...
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Article 5 mins
Money and Emotions
Money & Business

Money and Emotions

...Business School looks at the work of this research programme and explores the ways in which emotions affect how we all (from investment bankers to the wider public) think and decide about money. xDelia is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme... Money and Emotions The xDelia project is a European Commission funded research programme being...
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Audio 19 mins
Changing the way we work
Money & Business

Changing the way we work

...our ability to invent and form relationships will be even more essential assets for business in the future. Organisational Forms How individuals are linked up as “virtual teams”, in ever-changing combinations to cater for the market at any given moment. Network organisations The distinction between competitor, customer, supplier and manager is now much less defined....
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Audio 30 mins
The Trojan Defence
Science, Maths & Technology

The Trojan Defence

...business models used to fund a 'hidden' economy. Fighting Back How the Trojan Defence works as a legal defence, and the challenges computer crime raises for both prosecution and for defence. You Decide Ian Kennedy walks through an investigation that he conducted on a computer containing indecent images of children, leaving the audience to decide the what the verdict...
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Audio 26 mins