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Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...skills for managing in a particular way using STiP, by developing your systemic sensibility, systems literacy and systems thinking in practice capability provide a reflexive account of an experience of conducting an inquiry/co-inquiry into your systems thinking in practice for managing change by using a STiP heuristic begin an inquiry into your own experience of practice...
Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...study at postgraduate level...Commercial exploitation of nature, such as mining, fracking, or generating hydro-electric power, often damages the way the natural environment looks. What if the environment could be restored to exactly how it looked before? Would that mean no damage had been done, that the natural environment was as valuable as it had been before the...
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...study in Social Sciences...Climate change: island life in a volatile world: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the world is in the process of ‘being made’, right down to the earth beneath our feet consider how islands are shaped by a dynamic relationship between territories and flows show how human life is entangled...
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand how crime writers approach creating and developing villainous fictional characters understand what parasocial relationships are, and why we might form them with people we read about understand how engagement with fictional characters can affect our own sense of self understand how our relationship with fictional...
Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?
Languages

Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?

...studies also indicate a preference by locals to use Luganda over their local languages in education because parents believe that it opens doors to urban life. But it has also been repeatedly turned down as the potential national language. According to speakers of other languages, the strong ethno-linguistic identity displayed by its primary speakers has acted as a turn...
How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?

...studied resilience in African-American children and families. Her work should have upturned our habit of talking about “nature versus nurture” – a dichotomy that doesn’t take social determinants into account. Here’s how she neatly wove that in: Strength abounds in Harlem. Three hundred years of oppression and it survives. This is the task in Harlem, to see...
Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, evaluating the use of surgical checklists introduced in hospitals to reduce complications and deaths during surgery. The checklists have become the most widely used patient safety intervention in the world and are recommended by the World Health Organization. Yet, the evidence shows that checklists may have little impact, and her...
Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?
Society, Politics & Law

Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?

...Studies. These surveys consistently probed respondents’ factual knowledge of politics and institutions (for example, which party holds the majority in the House), their ability to identify important political figures (for example, to name the Vice President), and to properly place parties and prominent candidates relative to each other on a range of policy issues, such...