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The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...works of German artists, Otto Dix, and Käthe Kollwitz, who addressed grief and trauma in their works. Finally, you will explore how attitudes to trauma have developed over the twentieth century, and how psychological casualties have been treated in more recent conflicts, right up to the present day by exploring the connection between shell shock and our modern...
Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...work. I also recorded a video explaining our focus on Antarctica and the uncertainty surrounding the impact of global warming. Following the video is a slightly more in depth description of our recent research findings. Unstable ice sheets The idea that parts of the Antarctic ice sheet could become “unstable” goes back four decades. In the 1970s two US material...
Fast Reactors and Thorium
Science, Maths & Technology

Fast Reactors and Thorium

...work has confirmed the importance of closing the nuclear fuel cycle in order for substantial benefits to be seen from a move to thorium. Nuttall et al. (2015) have concluded: ‘that thorium fuel offers little benefit over conventional uranium-fuelled approaches for open-cycle nuclear energy production limited to the Low-Enriched Uranium standard of 20% 235U. We suggest...
‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism
Nature & Environment

‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism

...work The UK would be reckless to unilaterally replace the Common Fisheries Policy with domestic law and dictate terms of access to EU vessels of EU Member States. Instead, agreeing a bilateral agreement with the EU is the best way forward. Research for the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries (PECH) suggests a preferential regime with EU Member States which...
Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care
Nature & Environment

Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care

...working out the carbon saving potential of anything (not just new windows)! References Asdrubali, F., Ballarini, I., Corrado, V., Evangelisti, L., Grazieschi, G. and Guattari, C. (2019) ‘Energy and environmental payback times for an NZEB retrofit’, Building and Environment, vol. 147, pp. 461–472 [Online]. DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.10.047. Berg, F. and Fuglseth,...
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Work, or watch a minute-long video on 60 Second Adventures in Microgravity (see the animation below). Operating as a four nation university, OpenLearn has free resources representing all of our nations including an interactive on Welsh language and culture and a free course, Discovering Wales and Welsh: First Steps; a timeline on the history of Ireland taken from our...
Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change

...work in wine, and facing a dismal academic job market, thought I might go into wine consulting, which I was doing on the side in academia, but low and behold I got a job and found myself in Sweden. So we’re here at the Our Common Future under Climate Change Conference in Paris and …. RH: You’re going to tell me about climate change and wine. KN: Yes, so wine is a...
Privatising Thames Water
Money & Business

Privatising Thames Water

...work in financialising Thames Water; the regulatory body, OFWAT, was effectively hemmed in by a regulatory ring fence too tightly drawn. What the regulator has not been able to do in any serious way is to challenge whether the goal to place the customer centre stage through privatisation has been side-lined in favour of financing techniques that see value 'created' but...