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Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...analysis, which will help you identify the political, economic, social and technological factors that could affect your organisation in the future. This will help you consider what opportunities might exist in your own job or elsewhere. As with Week 1, you’ll need the Toolkit or your notebook to jot down your thoughts and responses to the activities. By the end of this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hacking under your skin?
Digital & Computing

Hacking under your skin?

...data is exchanged between the implant and its programmer are not published, and crucially, in this case, not encrypted. The researchers did not have access to the inner workings of the implant software, so they used what is known as black-box reverse-engineering to work out what was going on. In this context, the implant and its communications are the black box, and...
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Article 5 mins
Remembering Thatcherism
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Thatcherism

...analysis of the ‘swing to the right’ that was taking place in British society. In this article, Hall outlined the way in which Thatcher and the radical right had put together a critique of the post-war social democratic consensus and were attempting to construct a new consensus drawn from some of the ‘common sense’ hopes and fears of ordinary people and based...
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Article 10 mins
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...data to life by highlighting the vibrant stories of the diverse residents of Milton Keynes. This ‘new town’ with an increasingly mixed population, serves as a rich case study for understanding demographic changes in ethnicity and religion across the UK. The approach can be applied in any local context. It encourages reflection upon personal lived experience and its...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...analysis finds’. The Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/22/female-scientists-less-likely-to-be-given-authorship-credits-analysis-finds GOV.UK (2022) Inclusive Britain Update Report. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/inclusive-britain-update-report/inclusive-britain-update-report Guarino, C. M. and Borden, V. M. H....
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Article 5 mins
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...analysis and understanding the needs of your workforce. External data –often helps with analysing trends and benchmarking within your external environment. Marketing data –is used to understand customers’ behaviours and preferences, for example to assist HEI student enrolment and retention. Activity 24 Data storytelling Timing: 20 minutes Presenting options and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...data receive and respond to information presented in a variety of ways, including text, tables, graphs, diagrams, computer-based multimedia and websites begin to understand how to develop personal learning strategies...Watching the weather: 1 Recording the weather: from the surface - For well over a century, formal observations of the prevailing meteorological conditions...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...analysis of the exercise experience of female recreational runners’, Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 14(2), pp. 69-82. Brown, P. R., Brown, W. J., Miller, Y. D. and Hansen, V. (2001) ‘Perceived constraints and social support for active leisure among mothers with young children’, Leisure Sciences, 23(3), pp. 131-144. Horne, J., Corr, S. and Earle, S....
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Article 10 mins