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Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...systemic biases still limit women’s opportunities in academia. From funding gaps to authorship bias and exclusion from leadership, this article explores key barriers and outlines strategies for a more inclusive research environment...Universities – whose name derives from the Latin ‘universitas’ meaning ‘the whole’ – must foster inclusive environments where...
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...thinking about the component parts of a political system and how these might be reflected in schools that you know. Kamecka-Antczak (2020) suggests that a political system involves: an interdependent community, made up of groups of similar and contrary interests organisations, which through execution of influence and the acquisition and exercising of power represent the...
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...think it’s absolutely fantastic being able to get into this industry now with everything that’s available; I don’t think there’s really a better time for it and I’m up for the challenge. New media versus traditional television I think with the access to new media, you know, we’ve all got cameras and technology and the internet. I think there’s various things...
John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...think about digital rights. Here, the OU's Mike Richards introduces a short obituary by John's friend, Cory Doctorow...[John Perry Barlow] Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no...
Sea level rise in Tuvalu, South Pacific
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Tuvalu, South Pacific

...think it's going to end up under the sea. We're thinking of migrating to New Zealand. I don't want my children to see this, it's enough." (Mason, n.d.). EXPLORE FURTHER: To see how Bangladesh is coping with the effects of sea-level rises, click here. Too see how your local area might be affected, follow this link to the map produced by Climate Central, based on the recent...
Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...systems and ‘reviews’ can tell us how a service is performing from the user perspective or, alternatively, it can give us professional information about health and social care workers through organisational online profiles. However, if too much of our personal information is made to be public this could provide a negative view of the person; e.g. evidence of profane...
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...think it was in the Antarctic that I really became aware of the real wonders of the natural world, because it was just so spectacular, so on our doorstep, so special and we were working with it, we were involved with it, we worked with the penguins underwater and all the rest, so I would say it was late in coming, I’m not someone who was interested in natural history...
Europa: Jupiter’s ocean world
Science, Maths & Technology

Europa: Jupiter’s ocean world

...System. Since Greek times, it had been assumed that the Earth was the centre of the Solar System, with other objects orbiting around it. Galileo’s observation, that these moons were orbiting Jupiter and not Earth, contradicted that long-held view and instead supported Copernicus’ proposal that the Earth and other bodies moved round the Sun (heliocentricity, Figure 1)....