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What is Systems Thinking in Practice Hub about?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Systems Thinking in Practice Hub about?

...research in STiP, but also provide a necessary and important source of knowledge and skills for all who use it. These resources will begin to help you to understand the ideas, concepts and techniques that underpin systems thinking and systems practice and enable you to use those ideas, concepts and techniques to help inform your decisions and interactions. If your...
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What is the Sport and Fitness Hub?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the Sport and Fitness Hub?

...research and teaching interests of the academics who work on the sport and fitness qualification. This hub was launched in October 2024 to support the Sport and Fitness Conference ‘Embedding Children’s Rights into Sport and Fitness’. It brings together existing content that is still relevant today and will be continually added to, reflecting new research and...
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How our brain changes as we grow old: the Blood Brain Barrier breakdown
Science, Maths & Technology

How our brain changes as we grow old: the Blood Brain Barrier breakdown

...research student, Eduardo Frias-Anaya explains:...Brain and homeostasis [microvessels in the blood brain barrier] Figure 1: Tight junctions between brain endothelial cells control the transport across the barrier The brain acts as the centre of the nervous system, controlling processes occurring at different levels in the body. The structure of the brain is complex and...
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Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...researchers who say that comedy can change how we think and even how we act...Find out more about The Open University's Psychology courses Maeve Higgins once set herself a task. The Irish-born comedian wanted to see what life would be like if she stopped laughing at things that weren’t funny. Turns out it wasn’t as easy as she thought. “It was so effing hard,” she...
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Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...research from Cambridge suggests that better, clearer, consistent design of tubes and liquids could save lives...[Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle] The Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle In November 2004, Mary McClinton was admitted to Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, USA, to receive treatment for a brain aneurysm, a potentially serious swelling in a blood...
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Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...researchers interested in motivation and educational success, we wondered: Is motivation just one thing, or are there many different kinds of motivation? Is motivation about how people respond to challenges or is it also about how people respond to ease? Understanding these different facets of motivation can help students succeed. Why do people need motivation? People...
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How inclusive is women’s football?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How inclusive is women’s football?

...research on the experiences of female footballers has focused on issues related to gender. This has often emphasised the shared experience of females participating in a traditionally male-dominated sport. But this approach has been argued to be too generalised and can neglect the quite varied experiences that different women face. More recently, researchers have begun to...
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Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...researchers at the University of Sheffield who, over the last few years, have been studying the uneven impact of how the cities of Manchester and Salford in the North West of England are being opened up to processes of financialisaton, understood as the transformation of housing from a public good into a commodity. Researchers Rich Goulding, Adam Leaver and Jon Silver...
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