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Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration
Science, Maths & Technology

Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration

...businesses, space agencies and more. My current work at Astrobiology OU aims to strike the right balance between industry’s need for agile and cost-effective processes for building spacecraft and rovers and scientists’ desires to conduct meaningful, state-of-the-art, astrobiology experiments. [The ExoMars - Rosalind Franklin - Rover during the environmental testing...
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Between humanity and space
Science, Maths & Technology

Between humanity and space

...businesses sending ashes to the Moon; the Navajo have very little socio-political power to stop that happening. Governments, and agencies such as the United Nations, have more power but when you’re dealing with a bunch of different companies all trying to make money out of space, how do you regulate? How do we think about which people can go into space and for what...
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Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...Business School Summer Schools. After retirement he spent a bit more time in the garden but continued to contribute to the union by supporting colleagues in dispute with the management. A colleague in Social Sciences recalled that ‘you always knew when John was coming. You always heard those clip-clop brogues and you always knew they would be have to be accompanied by a...
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Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...business/leadership-management/the-importance-interpersonal-skills/content-section-3 (Accessed: 3 March 2021). Lawton-Smith, C. (2017) ‘Coaching as a route to resilience and wellbeing’, International Journal of Stress Prevention and Wellbeing, 1(4), pp. 1-5. Rotter, J. (1966) ‘Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement’,...
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When Edward met Bertha: Mental Health, Colonialism, Race and Patriarchy in Jane Eyre
History & The Arts

When Edward met Bertha: Mental Health, Colonialism, Race and Patriarchy in Jane Eyre

...busy converting everyone in sight, convinced that he is a great force for good, and for which he has paid with his health, and will soon pay with his life. But Rivers, has of course, not been a force for good. He has been a part of the destruction of the culture and way of life for those who have been colonised, their stories silenced, as surely as Rochester silenced...
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Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...Business School. Week 1: Threat landscape...Week 1: Threat landscape: Introduction - CORY DOCTOROW Hi, I'm Cory Doctorow, and I'll be your guide through this eight week course, catching up with you each week to recap on what we've covered and how it relates to what you'll be learning during the week. I used to be the European director of the Electronic Frontier...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...business cycle fluctuations. In such circumstances, there would be repeated periods of boom (high growth) and slowdown (low growth); governments would see their main responsibility as smoothing out the peaks and troughs of the cycle, an approach referred to as ‘fine-tuning’. This period of sustained growth was attributed in part to the benefits of Keynesian...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...business. But it begged a question – ‘miles better for whom?’ Certainly, the city centre was better for shoppers and visitors and the new roads were literally ‘miles better’ for motorists, but the spiralling problems of the housing schemes provided stark counter-images. In other words, as with all images, the image of ‘miles better’ was partial and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs