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Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...social housing, and allow markets (and subsidies) to determine the costs of housing and food. We need new strategies that simultaneously address basic needs and the planetary health threats with which we live, including global heating, biodiversity loss and pollution, which all risk human health. Through living systems design we can, for example, use multiplying,...
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...social factors we investigate here...This free course, Physical activity: a family affair, aims to explore the effects that the family has on the amount and nature of physical activity a child participates in. The beliefs and behaviours of the family environment are the key psycho-social factors we investigate here....Physical activity: a family affair: Introduction - For...
Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...works to keep people living with dementia and their carers engaging with the walks and outdoor environments? A new Parks Trust and Open University initiative finds out...[Older woman and young woman on a hommock next to a lake] It is great for everybody to get outdoors once in a while. But that is not so easy if you are living with dementia living either in community, or...
Why is 'modern language' taken to mean 'European language'?
Languages

Why is 'modern language' taken to mean 'European language'?

...work as Associate Professor of Korean Linguistics at Oxford University, I work towards this goal together with the Korean Embassy. In collaboration with exam boards we work to include Korean as one additional option among the modern foreign languages in the GCSE. However, we sense a reluctance from some exam boards and publishers that is difficult to understand. The...
OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”

...work at a distance with a range of sophisticated, remote-controlled experiments and robotic apparatus. Transcript Professor Braithwaite will be joined by: Dr Tim Drysdale, Senior Lecturer (Engineering/Electronics), academic lead for the new £2.7M OpenEngineering Lab. Dr Mark Hirst, Senior Lecturer in Biology, who leads the OpenScience Laboratory. Dr Ulrich Kolb, Senior...
European Day of Languages
Languages

European Day of Languages

...working languages: (European Commission, 2015) Bulgarian Estonian Irish Portuguese Croatian Finnish Italian Romanian Czech French Latvian Slovak Danish German Lithuanian Slovenian Dutch Greek Maltese Spanish English Hungarian Polish Swedish In addition, there are other national, regional or minority languages (such as Catalan, Welsh or Occitan, for instance) as well as...
Blockchain in Education
Digital & Computing

Blockchain in Education

...work they had to carry out for their courses (e.g., essays, lab experiments, designs, software etc.) and the feedback given by the teachers for later use (e.g., to show to potential employers, apply for a study programme, internship, scholarship etc.). This creates a high overhead for the students, as they need to keep track, organise, and safely archive the relevant...
Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist

...work of Charles Darwin and the impact his ideas about evolution continue to have on today’s world. © The British Council 2009... Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist A brief introduction to this album. Darwin's great great granddaughter The poet Ruth Padel talks about her great great grandfather, Charles Darwin, and how she has responded to his life and work in...