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Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage
History & The Arts

Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage

...guided tours are run, and information sheets and visitor packs have been produced special days for artists are held. These various initiatives, with the addition of a new visitor centre, full disabled access and better parking facilities, have led to visitor numbers now averaging 24,000 per year...Aberdulais Falls: A case study in Welsh heritage: 1.7 Evaluation - The...
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...University course K828 Researching and evaluating practice...Understanding service improvement in healthcare: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define ‘service’ in the context of healthcare understand what is meant by ‘service improvement’ in healthcare settings monitor when progress is being made towards service improvement...
Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...University of Leicester. It is, she admits, going to be a challenge. Many different policies and approaches have been tried to date, but few with widespread success, and often with unintended consequences. Financial incentives are widely used in the NHS and in the USA, but recent evidence suggests that they have little effect. “There’s a danger that they tend to...
How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...out in more local settings – at my own university in 1966, Peter Lloyd, catering manager at the newly-established University of Warwick, averted a protest over the cost and quality of food in the student canteen by lowering the price of sausages by one penny. Let them eat sausages. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Sea level rise in London, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in London, UK

...University Humphreys, D. (2019) The Role of Science in climate change policy, in ‘Environmental Policy in an International Context: Book 1’, Open University Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) (2013) ‘Summary for policy-makers’, in Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group 1 to the Fifth Assessment Report in the...
Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...University Press. Kidd, D.C. and Castano, E. (2013) ‘Reading literary fiction improves theory of mind’. Science, 342, pp. 377–80. Konrath, S.H., O’Brien, E.H. and Hsing, C. (2011) ‘Changes in dispositional empathy in American college students over time: a meta-analysis’. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, pp. 180–98. Nettle, D. (2005)...
The history of soapmaking
History & The Arts

The history of soapmaking

...University's Science courses and qualifications [Making soap] [The Sumerians] used a slurry of ashes and water to remove grease from raw wool and cloth so that it could be dyed. Sumerian priests and temple attendants purified themselves before sacred rites, and in the absence of soap, they too probably used ashes and water. The slippery solutions clean because the alkali...
How can we improve teaching about Islam?
Education & Development

How can we improve teaching about Islam?

...university, the arts – visual, musical and literary – could illustrate the important connections between Islam and other world histories. For example, a class on the Renaissance could explain how the 15th-century Italian painter Gentile Bellini gained famed at the court of Mehmet II, the conqueror of Istanbul. Mehmet II commissioned Bellini to design an imperial...