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Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...Open Access Initiatives with authorship attribution increase integrity and diversity. UK’s Athena SWAN Framework promotes explicit equity targets. EU METEOR project is designed to empower researchers of diverse nationalities, genders, ages, ethnic backgrounds and roles by enhancing their transversal skills. From awareness to action For academia to thrive, institutions...
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Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...open-minded approach to appreciate structural injustices hidden within accepted norms. Language is a critical issue to consider in terms of its opportunities to communicate but also to exclude and reinforce barriers. Finding ways to provide opportunities for all those to speak in their preferred voice, with confidence, is in an important tool in knowledge construction...
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Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...open but that which our country has taken.’ Such principles can also be used to justify violent opposition to oppressive regimes, as in the decision of the leading Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer to support the planned assassination of Hitler, and in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. However, because Christians take their inspiration from Jesus, who...
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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...sources) within water catchments is an example where decision making interacts with policy making. Problems of diffuse pollution are widespread, and where practical ways of improving diffuse pollution situations have been found, these have influenced policy options...Introducing environmental decision making: 2.1 Concepts of environment - Activity 3 Your understanding of...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...Open University, several academics may get together informally and form a self-organising team in order to share and develop the initial ideas for a new course. Participants in self-organising teams benefit from the exchange of ideas and viewpoints, and the implicit need to get things done. Self-organising teams provide a fertile learning environment and participants may...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Why would you want to make a bee wear a backpack?
Nature & Environment

Why would you want to make a bee wear a backpack?

...source lasts. We’re aiming to reduce the transmitter weight by harvesting the energy the bee generates while flying. This will allow us to do away with the battery, which is normally the heaviest component. The final bee backpack will weigh less than 50 milligrams (about two grains of rice) and will be the size of a match head. To further reduce the need for a...
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The Language of Brexit
Languages

The Language of Brexit

...of support by right-wing parties. Inventive use has created a host of comic forms. Bregret has appeared (for regret of Brexit), along with dog’s Brexit and full English Brexit as comments on the process. English speakers have coined the French phrase je ne Bregret rien! Brexit is now both an established word and a source of linguistic invention. It’s here to stay....
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How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?

...source of income.” Though expressing dissatisfaction with the decreasing sales during the past three months, after a freezing of the salaries of state employees, Saree' argued that khat traders have taken many measures to raise the percentage of their sales and compensate for the decreasing sales. One of these measures, as explained by Saree’, was that khat dealers...
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