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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...course that the subjects of these media representations, animals and plants are threatened in their existence by humans through the exploitation of natural and geological resources. And they stand no chance against humans. Help others see the truth. The system is stacked in favour of corporations continuing in their exploitation of environmental resources and our...
From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...courses and qualifications. In statistics, analysis is often presented as beginning with data. In practice, this is rarely true. Before any data is collected, there are already expectations about what values are plausible, which outcomes seem unlikely, and what patterns might emerge. These expectations arise from previous studies, theoretical understanding, and practical...
How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?

...course, this doesn’t stop others speculating that the signal may be just that. And it begs the question, how do you work out if a strange signal from space really is a message from aliens? The simple answer is that you have to rule out everything else first and only then can you think it may be aliens. As Sherlock Holmes said: “When you have eliminated the impossible,...
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...course of justice Inerasable as my scars and fate. I am here a woman ... with all my lives strung out like beads before me It isn’t privilege or pity that I seek It isn’t reverence or safety quick happiness or purity but the power to be what I am/ a woman charting my own futures/ a woman holding my beads in my hand [A photograph of a woman holding a bunch of flowers]...
An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Science, Maths & Technology

An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice

...course. Instead, I look at where ethics appears in the day‑to‑day reality of design work. Who’s doing ethics? How are they doing it? At what point? Using what tools? And how do these decisions fit within the structures of organisations, rules and regulations, and power dynamics? Ethics isn’t just about big philosophical debates. It’s also about small choices...
From the classroom to the Commonwealth games: Dr Julie McElroy’s story
Education & Development

From the classroom to the Commonwealth games: Dr Julie McElroy’s story

...course not only to live up to its legacy but to accelerate it, demonstrating how a scaled down Games* can be both visionary and viable. This feels like a genuine reset moment, a blueprint for the future of the Commonwealth Games. I am deeply grateful to fulfil this role and to be a valued and integral part of Glasgow 2026. I am enjoying learning, embracing the energy and...
Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...courses to manage and maintain healthy and sustaining professional relationships with your colleagues. ...Workplace relationships A relationship is the connection or association between two things or people. Key psychological aspects of a ‘good’ relationship are mutual trust, respect, commitment and individual responsibility. A good relationship meets the needs of...
Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...courses in various places such as OpenLearn. Read books, blogs and resources written by Indigenous people, such as WISN, Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology by Raymond Pierotti. Participate: Interact and, if possible, join like-minded communities, either virtually or locally. This could be helping clear invasive species or monitor local flora and...