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Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...data collection, all kinds of different technologies, and what came out of that discussion was that there are sectors of the military and human health innovation, which is escalating rapidly, which are also doing the same things or have done some of them a bit quicker. And that technology is locked into silos and the long-term vision would be that there would be some way...
Milton Keynes: energy capital of the UK?
Nature & Environment

Milton Keynes: energy capital of the UK?

...I remember very fondly how a new intellectual door opened for me when I first read a copy of Jake’s best-selling Penguin book Fuel’s Paradise during my PhD research at the Cambridge Energy Research Group. In one way or another this new language of energy analysis has defined my career and life-long interests in energy teaching, energy efficiency and conservation....
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...data here, or you can base your calculation on your own experience of renting or owning a home. Now compare the cost of the same sort of dinner in a city within a low-income country (for example, Awassa in Ethiopia). You may have to do some additional online research to find approximate values for the same set of ingredients as you used for your initial analysis. Don’t...
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...analysis of the ‘raw’ data they have generated), and state their interpretation of the findings in the Discussion section. They will often extrapolate and generalise in this section to illustrate the key points they wish to make. The last section before the Reference list is usually a Conclusion, in which the authors state how the results, in their view, relate to the...
Was British business always planning for Brexit?
Money & Business

Was British business always planning for Brexit?

...data for 5,415 firms in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as the mid-sized northern and southern European economies of Sweden, Finland, Italy, and Spain. Our data covers all publicly listed non-financial firms. In a nutshell, UK firms follow the general European trend in diversification, namely reducing it. Their approach to internationalisation is, however,...
Has media literacy become self-destructive?
Education & Development

Has media literacy become self-destructive?

...Data & Society, asks if American society has become too distrustful of experts...[Self-destructive computer] Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of propaganda and fake news during [the US Presidential] election cycle, many progressives are calling for an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Others are clamoring for solutions that focus on...
The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...Data Exchange System (known to linguists and developmental psychologists as “CHILDES”). An amazing feat of language research, CHILDES is the biggest repository of English language data in the world and includes recordings of language produced by children and their caregivers in conversation. Its audio examples of children’s speech are widely used for research...
Sarah Everard murder: the problem with the government’s plan to make women ‘feel’ safer
Society, Politics & Law

Sarah Everard murder: the problem with the government’s plan to make women ‘feel’ safer

...data collection on these crimes, investing £5 million into a “Safety of Women at Night” fund and £27 million to recruit more advisers to support victims. One announcement in the strategy is the pilot of an online tool called “StreetSafe”, which invites users to log locations on a map if they’ve felt unsafe in that area. The government also places a focus on...