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Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Nature & Environment

Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26

...research and Kings College London which has reinvested £42.9million of its divested funds into sustainable initiatives, as examples. Institutions involved in climate research and education, consolidate their reputations when they lead by example and reflect that research and teaching through their financial behaviour and general policies. The divestment movement is a...
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How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?
Nature & Environment

How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?

...researchers from The Open University and Robert Gordon University found deprived areas in Glasgow tend to have lower-quality and less biodiverse green space than their wealthier counterparts (Baka and Mabon, 2022). The world over, benefits from nature-based solutions disproportionately accrue to the wealthiest people and places, and not the people who are at greatest risk...
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How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...research conducted between 2015 and 2017. Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Switzerland followed in quick succession at the top, while Burundi, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Tanzania and Yemen languished at the bottom. The nations that top the usual measure of a country’s health – its Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, which shows overall economic output – was much...
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Everybody's looking for love
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everybody's looking for love

...research explores the views and experiences of women with learning disabilities on sexual relationships and as part of my PhD I gave them a platform to talk openly about this taboo subject. I interviewed 16 women with mild to moderate learning disabilities who were members of Stars in the Sky, a pioneering dating agency that you might recognise from the Channel 4’s...
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Influential women scientists in chemistry
Science, Maths & Technology

Influential women scientists in chemistry

...research now extends into the determination of the structures of very large molecules in biological systems. In early studies the problems of solving the structures of molecules in living systems were immense, because of their sheer size. Dorothy Hodgkin was a key early pioneer in such studies. After graduating from Oxford, she went to Cambridge and studied
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Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?
History & The Arts

Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?

...research method, it notably depends on an important idea. One can only engage in such an act if one is certain that how one thinks now and how they thought then is the same. That, in short, there is a common cognitive architecture or chain of reasoning that links the two. Racism is based in the contrary assumption of absolute cognitive difference. [ Aztec warriors led by...
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A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
Health, Sports & Psychology

A matter of life and death: inequalities in healthcare for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities

...research is needed to explain and explore these racial inequities. However, the persistent inequalities are linked to the racism and discrimination that Black and minority ethnic people experience in wider society and the systemic and institutional racism in health and social care services, education and the criminal justice system, to name a few. Stereotypes abound...
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Working on your own mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Working on your own mathematics

...research. It invites you to think about how perceptions of mathematics have influenced you in your prior learning, your teaching and the attitudes of learners...This free course, Working on your own mathematics, focuses on your initial encounters with research. It invites you to think about how perceptions of mathematics have influenced you in your prior learning, your...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs