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Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change

...Project Ben Van Beurden interview Key RH: Roger Harrabin = Interviewer BVB: Ben Van Beurden CEO Shell = Participant RH: I’m with Ben Van Beurden, CEO of Shell and we’re sitting in his office on the something very high floor in Waterloo with a spectacular view over the river and The Eye and right over London to Wembley and Hampstead. Ben Van Beurden, thanks for...
Wendy Gregory On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Wendy Gregory On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...projects together starting with a project for the local council on disasters planning where we worked with 19 different organisations who all had an interest in what should be done. When trying to explain what critical systems thinking is about, I told a group of conference goers to think about things like sweet and sour sauce, because it is made from ingredients that...
How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?
Money & Business

How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?

...project team, within a UK-based international company, concerned with the development of new software. Our aim is to extend current dialogical approaches to organizational knowledge creation, largely developed in the context of face-to-face communication, into virtual contexts of communication. Through close analysis of the ICT-mediated dialogical interactions between the...
Fancy a mission? Join the Weather-It community
Science, Maths & Technology

Fancy a mission? Join the Weather-It community

...project. The project will run for 3 months (December-February) and the participants can register at any time and spend as much time as they want, whenever they want. The community and the platform will remain open after the study finishes. The aim of the PhD project is to help people engage in scientific investigation, by giving them opportunities to collaborate with...
Walk the walk: encountering death and dying spaces in hospital
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walk the walk: encountering death and dying spaces in hospital

...project. The project foregrounds carers’ needs when looking after someone during the end of life and bereavement using key questions about what matters to them and what helps them during that time as they provide a “fresh perspective” about a setting. The project has been used in acute and community hospitals, care homes, and general practice. Claire Henry MBE,...
Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...manager. In 2019 the League Cup winning team featured just two Englishmen and was managed by former Spanish international, Pep Guardiola. Table 1 shows the nationalities of the players of the two successful teams and highlights the global composition of Manchester City’s team in 2019, a group of players drawn from countries across Europe and South America. Table 1:...
Open Minds - Diabetes and Depression: A Tale of Three Cities
Miscellaneous

Open Minds - Diabetes and Depression: A Tale of Three Cities

...manage their condition. This research led her, in 1991, to obtaining a fellowship in Pittsburgh, USA, where she worked alongside researchers from all over the world, on a project which is still ongoing: the Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications (EDC) Study. On her return to the UK, she worked alongside practitioners in Birmingham to develop ways of involving people with...
Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability
Education & Development

Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability

...project work with collaborative/cooperative approaches. Traditional Wisdom Several permaculture principles stood out for participants. For example, ‘Integrate rather than segregation’ as working together can be far more productive than working in isolation; ‘creatively use and respond to change’ is a key life skill and may drive commitment to sustainability. Being...