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Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...sustained...This free course, Understanding service improvement in healthcare, will help you to understand what people mean by the terms ‘service’ and ‘improvement’ in relation to healthcare. The course will help you to think about how those involved in healthcare, whether as practitioners or service users, can monitor the progress of any initiative to improve...
Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...sustaining ice loss they called “Marine Ice Sheet Instability”, or MISI. [Points of interest on the Bedmap2 bedrock topography map.] Bedmap2 bedrock topography map (Fretwell et al., 2013) with some points of interest. Above is a map from the latest measurements of Antarctic bedrock topography. Blue-green colours are below sea level. You can see the broad outline of...
Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change

...Sustainable Development’ for the French national research agency (ANR) and is currently chairing the scientific advisory board of the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE JPI, 21 countries). He also leads a group of the Global Research Alliance on agricultural greenhouse gases (36 countries) and an activity of the AgMIP...
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...sustainability to consider how you strengthen your hybrid working infrastructure. You will begin to identify what digital transformation means in the higher education institutes (HEIs) sector and how this accelerates working practices for hybrid. You will also start to create habits to continue to future-proof your organisation, and consider future ways of working that...
Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...sustainable development goals (SDGs) and disaster risk management.” The team focused on the climate action plans until 2030. The tool allows users to toggle between 163 intended and actual climate plans, thus noting any changes in the two documents for a particular country. Nicholas Ozor, executive director of the Kenya-based African Technology Policy Studies Network,...
Prospecting for water on the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Prospecting for water on the Moon

...sustainable mode of space exploration through harvesting it in situ on the Moon for producing rocket fuel and to provide life support for a new cadre of astronauts. So why is everyone excited about lunar water now, when we could see that the Moon walked upon by the astronauts was a dry barren place – and this seemed to be backed up by the analyses performed on lunar...
Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity
Education & Development

Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity

...Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were created to achieve a better future for all. In this article Dr Eric Addae-Kyeremeh explores how SDG 4: Quality Education has been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic...Globally, it is estimated that remote learning is out of reach for at least 500 million students.While the objective of equitable quality education and lifelong...
Dialogues Across Borders
Society, Politics & Law

Dialogues Across Borders

...sustained by social media became the catalyst to a series of travelling interactive exhibitions across Europe. In a series of workshops, the sharing of experiences through poetry, photography, art, theatre and music created a fertile environment for a rich and intimate cross-cultural exchange in which audiences were invited to make their own artworks (including designing...