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Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role

...research and found that each individual who went through grief and loss did so at different paces but that the emotional journey was the same for everyone. The loss of work and employment has been seen to follow the same pattern of grief, and has been found to be highly relevant in organisational change and the effects on the workforce. Five stages of grief and loss 1....
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Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey

...researching existing solutions, they brainstorm ideas tailored to a specific group or situation. These ideas are refined into detailed plans, built into prototypes, and tested. The final stage involves critical evaluation, often requiring input from others. This reflective process can be challenging but it’s essential for project and learning success. OU students learn...
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Is Bitcoin a bubble - and why must it burst?
Money & Business

Is Bitcoin a bubble - and why must it burst?

...research does show that it is experiencing a bubble right now. Together with Shaen Corbet at Dublin City University, we took as the fundamentals of Bitcoin elements of the technology that underpins it (and other cryptocurrencies). We looked at measures, which represent the key theoretical and computational components of how cyrptocurrencies are priced. New Bitcoin is...
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Brains, bots and better learning? What OU students really think about generative AI
Education & Development

Brains, bots and better learning? What OU students really think about generative AI

...research papers more efficiently but insisted on reading and evaluating sources themselves. Several students openly admitted feeling uncertain about what constitutes acceptable use. Perhaps, therein lies a big challenge for universities worldwide as this uncertainty points to an important reality. The challenge is no longer simply whether students use AI. The real...
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Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...research (2011, 2015) has found that it is extremely rare for anybody to have what used to be thoughts of as a ‘male’ or ‘female’ brain: most people’s brains display a mixture of features. And on the level of experience, over a third of people said that they were to some extent the ‘other’ gender, ‘both genders’ and/or ‘neither gender’. Superqueering...
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Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...research publications. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/facts (accessed 18/5/2018) Seabrook, E. M., Kern, M. L., & Rickard, N. S. (2016). Social networking sites, depression, and anxiety: a systematic review. JMIR mental health, 3(4), e50 Seo, H.S., Jeong, E., Sungwon, C., Kwon, Y., Park, H. & Kim, Inseong (2017) Neurotransmitters in Young People with...
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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...research, we’ll decide that the premise is true; or perhaps we won’t. It isn’t obvious whether Your Argument passes the first test. In contrast, My Argument does pass the first test. At time of writing, Williams has won the most Grand Slam singles titles since tennis professionalised. But does it pass the second test? Well, you might reasonably wonder why I am...
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An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...research and computing power are being put into making better AI systems, but there's a sort of ‘artificiality’ at the moment to both the text that is generated by AI, and the sound that AI can generate or the images it produces. So, if you read AI-generated text, it's very fluent, it's usually grammatically correct, but it's boring! It doesn't take strong opinions...
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