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How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...data associated with it, name, URL, criteria, issuer, date and recipient]Representation of the digital nature of open badges. Source: Bryan Mathers.Digital badges are digital because, unlike a PDF or paper certificate, achievements are baked into the badge and are verifiable to the earner and issuer. That we now use digital badges in higher education, signifies that not...
‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...analysis of national data’, 1998-2018. BMJ, p.n251. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n251. Food Standards Agency 2024 - Feinmann, J. (2024) ‘Up to 6% of UK adults might have a food allergy, says report’, BMJ, pp.q1122–q1122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1122. Credits This article is one component of the research project endorsed by the Royal Society for...
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...analysis of your sport or activity will indicate how important speed and power are to you. There is a wide range of sports and activities in which speed and power are important – in some sports such as sprinting or power-lifting, achieving speed and power are the main objectives, whereas in other sports such as rugby or football they are just one aspect of the sport....
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...analysis of the data shown in Figures 4 (a) and 4 (b) is needed to set it in a wider context. We need to know how many openings were created after the NDYP was launched, who participates in the programme, and with what outcomes. Not only would this answer questions about the significance of participations and withdrawals, it would allow insights into the rationale for...
Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...analysis holds that the most salient aspect of an image is what its maker intended to communicate: the participants tell me what is in the picture and we discuss its meaning from there. In order to make these images accessible to wider audiences a website was created on which we could exhibit the collected material. The website‘s largest asset is that it offers a...
Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship

...analysis of citizenship, in an effort to advance a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of today’s politics. To start with, citizenship is better understood as a practice or an act, rather than a status. Studying citizenship is about studying the processes ‘through which actors constitute themselves (and others) as subjects of rights’ (Isin, 2009:371). In...
The devil is in the (complex) detail
Health, Sports & Psychology

The devil is in the (complex) detail

...analysis on the basis it was too ‘gloomy’. The high pace of the negotiation process - with less than 2 years of negotiation time to thrash out the issues - and with the polarisation of issues taking place via the group pressures operating within the UK government, are the ideal conditions for making decision-making biases more likely. The implications for the process...
What's next for British wages?
Money & Business

What's next for British wages?

...analysis of why wages remain so persistently low. Conventional accounts of declining worker rights or crumbling welfare state do not fully address contemporary economic realities. This is particularly true in trying to understand why the effects of the “recovery” post-crisis. The current economy is one of increased zero-hour contracts and underemployment rather than...