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Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...social bonds with the entrepreneur and often work on the basis of risking their own money with the aim of big returns – a lot of bang for their buck! But this may not be the right choice, or even a realistic option, for the majority of new businesses – particularly if they’re not seen as potentially high-profit, high-growth. So, let’s put the external private...
Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...working themselves out, which will become emergent and shape the future direction of politics, not only in Scotland but across the UK. Writing this in Scotland there is no doubt that it feels a very different place. While it is at times hard to express this in words, the wider context that informs political debate and discussion has certainly changed and the wider...
Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?

...social dreaming matrix to investigate the impact of art on climate change awareness. This topic too provides a methodological test case, because aesthetic experience eludes scientific or cognitive dominated methodologies; also because climate change is so painful to face that it needs methods going beyond denial, disavowal and projection. Free association narrative...
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Volkswagen Scandal
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Volkswagen Scandal

...social responsibility and governance. In this episode of Bottom Line, industry and finance leaders discuss the implications of this event. As the show reveals, this scandal has a number of different facets. These range from what actually occurred to specifics of the technology used to manipulate emission data to VW’s response to whether this problem extends to the car...
Systems explained by Humberto Maturana
Money & Business

Systems explained by Humberto Maturana

...worked with Humberto in Chile during the Allende years and later held chairs at Aston and Lincoln Universities and is the current Director General of WOSC (the World Organisation of Systems & Cybernetics) was also present and contributes to the conversation. The original filming was probably on Wednesday 12th March 1997. Humberto then presented a three-day workshop at...
Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health

...social, environmental, economic and political factors shape and constrain our understandings and experiences of mental health and distress. It explores the wide range of diverse and frequently competing perspectives that characterise the world of mental health and looks at the impact of these perspectives on mental health practice and service provision. In a set of...
What kind of Democrat are you?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What kind of Democrat are you?

...social media profiles, hashtags and offline we can create marches, sign e-petitions, and join social movements. With these new powers, come new challenges in the face of mobilisation towards political extremes, hate speech and polarisation. The OppAttune project has been working to up-skill the public to navigate how polarisation and extremism happens and how to develop...
Week 9 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 9 Civilisations: The debate

...works he discusses are forms of installation art. Is this a medium that is well suited to convey a relationship between art and social or political events? Join in our discussion hub on Civilisations by posting a response in the Comments section below before 10.30pm on Thursday 26th April 2017 (select 'save' to send your comment). One of the academic consultants on the...