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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...project manager of eSTEeM, for her unstinted support to this course in innumerable ways. Enormous gratitude is due to Dale Harry of OpenLearn for his guidance, kind care and patience in the editing and production of this course. Thanks very much to our OpenLearn colleagues, Sas Amoah, Ana Collins, Catherine Halliwell, James Richards, Luke Yorke and Marcus Young who helped...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...project management. So many projects fail because consideration of the human element is omitted, or badly covered by the project manager. “Systems” has helped me to grapple with the complexities.’ The question ‘Who uses systems thinking?’ depends where you are in the world and what search terms you use. A quick internet search on ‘systems thinking’ in the UK...
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...project management process brings for us. Often, dynamic people and dynamic organisations like policing tend to be very uncomfortable with that kind of structure and governance, but it's absolutely critical when you're trying to deliver quite complex change over a sustained period of time. And I think, often, that lack of attention to discipline is where a lot of us fall...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...Project Management, 20(3), pp. 235–240. Jolly, J. (2022) ‘UK lost up to £16bn due to fraud and error in Covid loans schemes’, The Guardian, 23 February. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/23/uk-lost-up-to-16bn-due-to-and-error-in-covid-loans-schemes (Accessed: 13 May 2023). Jones, L. (2019) Introduction to business law. 5th edn. Oxford: Oxford...
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...project management and we could then work on an amazing private event where we could organise a large festival for a private client for their 50th birthday party. DAN WRIGHT: The company that I formed in 2010 is called Heliex Power Ltd and it’s a company specialising in the development of equipment to recover energy that would otherwise go to waste in industrial...
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Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...project, I'm working as a project manager, working with a lot of people from 13 organisations, from eight different European countries. I'm happy to share some information about the ICAERUS project and the upcoming open call that is a very good opportunity for innovation and collaboration. The ICAERUS project aims to foster the effective and efficient adoption of ......
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Money & Business

Risk management

...Project Managers (APM) As you study this course you will find that there are differences – often quite subtle – in the way that individual organisations define various risks. Such differences have become less common in recent years with the adoption of internationally recognised standards for risk management – particularly those standards laid down by the...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...managed a project. You could think about managing your project in a similar way. Or I use some of the techniques I've used. They're much more specific and much more guiding. ALMUTH MCDOWALL So what is the difference between coaching and mentoring? Both are used a lot in organisations, but I think there are some fundamental differences. Now, let's talk about coaching...