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Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...sustainability and how this relates to energy systems and primary energy sources understand the key role of the sun as the main source of renewable energy understand the concepts of energy, power, the difference between them and the essential units used to describe them. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...sustain the increased thermogenesis needed to maintain a large difference between T a and T b. For many animals, however, the food supply in a cold environment becomes scarce or inaccessible beneath snow or ice. Question 1 What are the options for surviving a very cold winter? Answer To remain active. This strategy is possible for an animal with appropriate insulation,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...sustained. To be effective, the leaders needed to know how to influence people as well as how to inspire and oversee collaborative action. They had to want to improve and feel able to persuade people about a call for action, so as to develop and implement the action plan. This included the formation of circles of influence, so that people volunteered their services to...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...sustainably managing the COVID-19 disease.’ It might be relevant to note that the study authors are experts in biology and medicine, such as being affiliated with the Salford Royal Hospital, but modelling an epidemic requires epidemiology expertise. The USA is similar to the UK in the sense that both countries have had a very high total number of deaths from COVID-19,...
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Article 10 mins
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...sustainability perhaps. But other versions of smart cities-- think about the ways in which all that data might be put to use by city residents or by local workers perhaps to solve more specific and local problems that they're generated by their own ideas about what's important in their city. And an example of those kind of things-- our project is based in Milton Keynes,...
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Video 10 mins
The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...sustained during fight or flight. • Our blood vessels near the skin become constricted, reducing blood loss should you be injured. • Our sweat glands open, even when you are cold, ready to cool you should you need to run or fight. • Our pupils dilate, to help us detect movement. • Our hairs stand on end - so we become more sensitive to our environment. • Our...
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Article 15 mins
Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...sustained through advocacy and structural reforms that empower all researchers to succeed based on merit rather than hierarchy. Acknowledgments This study is part of CONNECT2030 – Gender equity for Agenda 2030 funded by Open Societal Challenge N. 263 and METEOR – Methodologies for teamworking in eco-outwards research funded by European Commission N. 101178320. The...
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Article 5 mins
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...sustainability avoid ‘dumping’ your ethical principles and values onto ways of researching by negotiating shared ways of engagement enable communication in preferred languages for inclusive engagement. References Adame, F. (2021) ‘Meaningful collaborations can end “helicopter research”’, Career Column, Nature. Available at:
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Article 30 mins