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Black and Minority Ethnic Network Podcasts - series 2
Education & Development

Black and Minority Ethnic Network Podcasts - series 2

...projects, plus covers the work happening within the institution in relation to race and ethnicity...Anita Pilgrim Katherine talks to Anita about the intersection of BME and LGBTQI identities. Transcript Many years ago, somebody saying to me, oh, where are you from? And I was like, well, I was born in Scotland. I'm from Scotland. And as he went off into the building, he...
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Personal branding: Stand out and stay you
Gain4Growth

Personal branding: Stand out and stay you

...building an authentic personal brand, making a great first impression, and showcasing your skills and experiences effectively. Transcript (PDF) This podcast has been developed in collaboration with Coleg Gwent as part of the Gain4Growth project with support from Medr. It supports college-based higher education students in their studies and progression. [Gain4Growth logo]...
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How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...project ‘Project Violet’. He hoped it would revolutionise cancer surgery with a drug from an unusual source. Professor Harald Sontheimer, then at the University of Alabama, was never really interested in cancer. If it weren’t derived from his favourite cells, glial cells – a type of cell in the nervous system from which most types of brain tumour develop – he...
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Finding a mentor
Money & Business

Finding a mentor

...Management courses and qualifications. It can be very helpful to find a mentor who will support you in your workplace learning. A mentor can help you think about problems you may be facing, and new ideas or ways of working you want to try out. They will usually help by listening to your thoughts and ideas and asking questions to help you think more clearly about them. A...
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Can the Economy be Irish?
Money & Business

Can the Economy be Irish?

...project. ...[Scrabble words spelling out the word 'Brexit'] Image credit: Speedpropertybuyers The Irish are great storytellers, illuminated through the centuries by Beckett, Yeats, O’Brien, Shaw, Wilde, Binchy, Enright and Joyce to name a few. The great English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, said that narrative is the superior form of knowledge, whilst the German...
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Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...C., and Schocket, D. H. (2018). Machine translation and the L2 classroom: Pedagogical solutions for making peace with Google translate. Foreign Language Annals, 51(4), 779-795. von Lindeiner-Stráský, K. (2022). unpublished project report ‘Web-based Machine Translation in Language Learning, Teaching, and Assessment’, Praxis-Project, The Open University 2020-2022....
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Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...project. Funded by EEF and the RSA, it’s a partnership study between the OU, the University of Exeter and Arvon and a rare opportunity for deep, sustained CPD in the teaching of writing. The project, which involves teacher residentials at Lumb Bank (Ted Hughes’ old home) and CPD days, focuses both on writing standards and children’s motivation and engagement as...
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Science doesn't know how free divers do it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Science doesn't know how free divers do it

...project about free diving for the Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition Somewhere in Between. Scientists and those who practise free diving are in many ways utterly alien to one another. When you look at the stresses this sport places on our physiology, it initially looks almost impossible that anyone should be able to dive to such profound depths – and yet they do....
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