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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...
How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?
Money & Business

How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?

...analysis of the ICT-mediated dialogical interactions between the members of a project team and the occasional face-to-face interactions between certain members of the project team and other organizational members, we show how knowledge creation emerges via three core dialogical processes: dialogues with real others, quasi-dialogues with invisible others, and...
Discuss: Does work define your class position?
Society, Politics & Law

Discuss: Does work define your class position?

...analysis it is only through work that we can understand society, with its division between the working class and the capitalist class. The former works; the latter exploits workers, profiting from their labour. But even if this is still the big picture, the nature of work, and who does it—women, men, young or old—has certainly changed since Marx’s time. We'd like...
Choose your own philosophy adventure
History & The Arts

Choose your own philosophy adventure

...analysis of your choices and a map of how your opinions compare to different philosophers through the ages. Are you ready to turn the first page? If so, select the image below to open the book... [Black and white illustration of a castle surrounded by trees with a tower in the centre. Dot like dashes create a sea around the island the castle is on top of.] Open the book...
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...