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Does your personality influence your career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does your personality influence your career?

...personality. Whether they enjoy their job or not, again, can be dependent on the match between their personality and the job they’re doing. And then, of course, to get into an occupation you need to be recruited, and employers are looking to recruit people with particular personality types for particular jobs. There’s all sorts of ways in which those two overlap....
Paul Tucker On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Nature & Environment

Paul Tucker On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...course in Environmental Management and Technology, qualifiying with first class honours in 2019. He started postgraduate study towards a Masters in Systems Thinking in Practice in 2020 and completed the first module, Managing change with STiP (TB872) and enrolled in a second module, T891, Making Environmental Decisions, which started in November 2021. Paul describes...
Finding the Truth
Society, Politics & Law

Finding the Truth

...and immersive stories to find out what you really know about crime. [Finding the truth promo image] Select the image above to begin your criminal justice journey. Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Edge or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Interested in criminology? Try a FREE course...
Hospital: The cost of treatment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hospital: The cost of treatment

...only available on the NHS once she has had three courses of chemotherapy, and she is only just about to start her second. So she is attempting to crowdfund the £60,000 needed to buy the drug herself. Going private Mary is in hospital for a lump on her lung that is cancerous and is having it removed. Rex discusses the difference between the Private services and the NHS....
Chance, Risk and Health
Science, Maths & Technology

Chance, Risk and Health

...course SMK184 Chance, Risk... Chance, Risk and Health A short introduction to this album. Reinventing Statistics Fisher's principles are at the basis of modern research in agriculture, medicine and industry. Measuring the Unmeasurable Combining genetics and statistics. Today's cutting edge research into the human genome uses Fisher's concept of maximum likelihood. The...
Rotating Bodies and Angular Momentum
Science, Maths & Technology

Rotating Bodies and Angular Momentum

...course MST209, Mathematical methods and models... Rotating Bodies and Angular Momentum A short introduction to this album. Torque and Momentum An introduction to rotating bodies, focusing on baton twirling. Sport scientist Dave Cogner explains the relationship between torque and angular momentum. Spinning on Ice A look at how ice skaters can control and change the speed...
Earth's physical resources: fossil fuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Earth's physical resources: fossil fuels

...course S278 Earth's physical resources: origin, use and environmental impact... Fossil Fuels An an introduction to this album Declining Oil and Gas Reserves How long have we got before all the Earth's fossil fuels are depleted? What will happen to gas prices when the North Sea gas reserves are gone? The Future of Energy The next century will see massive change in sea...
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Interview Edit Transcript Tim Lenton interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer TL: = Tim Lenton, Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science, participant. RH: So this is Tim Lenton. Tim let’s start with the science. Where do you think, just thinking of macro terms, not just your stuff, but including your stuff, what have we...