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The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond
Languages

The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond

...Data for Ukraine project. Data for Ukraine analyses Twitter data in order to detect a variety of developing events in Ukraine: civilian resistance; displacement of population groups; human rights abuses; and humanitarian needs (Machine Learning for Peace, 2022a). For this purpose, over 600 keywords in Ukrainian and Russian are searched, and these are supplemented by other...
Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...data on new housing developments in Manchester and Salford in order to understand who is involved in the construction of new housing apartments in Greater Manchester and where in the world those companies and financial actors are located. As part of our new Geography module, D225 Changing geographies of the UK we have mapped this data to help visualise how cities are...
Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers

...data for testing theories, and their use is determined by the theoretical question. However, it is arguable that treating method as a technical afterthought downplays the extent to which social and intellectual change might be conveyed through method. Following this, much of my work involves trying to work with the intellectual and motivational benefits of a more active...
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...data about your area; it is worth exploring these either by going directly to your Local Authority’s website or by going to the Business Wales website where you will find links to all of the 22 LAs as well as additional information and support. At the end of this section we suggest some possible sources of information and support. Task 1: Personal objectives Write down...
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The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...data. The on-board camera showed that Huygens had landed on what looked like the shore of a dried-up lake bed. Some "pebbles" were visible sitting on top of a surface which could not be fully resolved by the camera. So what was it? This was the question faced by Karl for his PhD project. His basic interpretation was that the penetrometer, after at first producing a brief...
The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU
Science, Maths & Technology

The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU

...data and how to convert data from one form to another. For example, telescopes collect data on spectra and the brightness of celestial bodies; these data are converted to numbers that are represented by images on a screen and stored in large data files. I had to extract numerical information from those images, convert that into knowledge about the physical ......
The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...data already predicts that we will be half a century late for the first of the 2030 education targets...[Globe and a bachelor's hat cartoon, society matters] Almost a year after a new set of Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 were finalised, the first report tracking global progress towards its goal for education and lifelong learning shows just how far there is still...
Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...data, why doesn’t the Department for Education? But it goes deeper. After reading lots of books about Islam in 2016 to try and better understand my Muslim students, I tried to ‘get down with the kids’ by listening to Camden-based rap artist Akala. I couldn’t get along with the music, but I read his book Natives. I haven’t been totally ignorant of Britain’s...