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Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Money & Business

Systems in action: Pea canning case study

...analysis required to identify these, was beyond the scope of existing resources of the company either in people or in funds. Conclusion The changed texture of the environment was not recognised by an able but traditional management until it was too late. They failed entirely to appreciate that a number of outside events were becoming connected with each other in a way...
Does the 2017 election show that the UK has a broken electoral system?
Society, Politics & Law

Does the 2017 election show that the UK has a broken electoral system?

...analysis on the first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP), concluding that it is archaic, ineffective and undemocratic. It argues that an electoral system created in the early 1800s at a time of two-party politics during the UK’s democratic formation cannot cope with the dynamics of a modern, multi-party political system. This is not a sudden or new phenomenon. The...
How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...analysis at an international conference and then as a book chapter (Fox et al., 2019). They showed how they could apply frameworks for thinking about Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), originally written for Higher Education settings paper (Warwick, 2016; Winter et al., 2015), to a wide range of their own school-age settings. The consensus was: EfS needs to...
How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’
History & The Arts

How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’

...analysis of clay “tobacco” pipes from Shakespeare’s garden at New Place and elsewhere in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon indicating the smoking of cannabis. Author’s note: I am most grateful to Chris Bennett for directing my attention to the “The Praise of Hemp-seed” by John Taylor (1620). [The Conversation] Francis Thackeray, Phillip Tobias Chair in...
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...analysis, and examples of qualitative evidence or data include using the following methods: Participant observation involves the researcher systematically describing events and behaviours in the setting of their chosen study. For instance, in fieldwork conducted in a South Australian community that has experienced significant socio-economic disadvantage, researchers...
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...analysis of data. Ken Welsh We have excavated nearly 100 hectares which really is a very large area, and that is 100 hectares of a prehistoric and Roman landscape, and because we have dug such a lot, instead of just as archaeologists normally do, just see a key hole, they might see a small bit of a settlement here or part of a field here, we have been able to see the...
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Money & Business

Risk management

...analysis and then apply successful processes to manage it. The course is supported by case studies and audio-visual materials to help explain the varied and often complex risk management practices employed at Rolls-Royce and widely elsewhere. Transcript Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...analysis to look for patterns in stock-market data. The EMH suggests that there is no reason for such expert investment strategies to work any better than buying stocks in proportion to their weighting in the market index, or even buying a random selection of stocks. [Described image] Figure 14 The ‘random walk’ from tossing a coin. Source: Malkiel (2007, p.130)....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs