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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...system’ in a different way from the general sense, to think in terms of systems. For now, you should note that it was possible to focus on some different systems, boundaries and environments in the different definitions, even though they started with the same word. Consider these further examples of systems from Sir Geoffrey Vickers, who was ......
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...systems. Think about getting dressed in the morning. Mom is trying to get your shoe on. You’re playing with the Cheerio. Your mom takes a Cheerio away because it’s three days old. She puts your other shoe on in an attempt to get you dressed. The dog runs through. Everybody’s distracted for a moment. What does the naming of objects in that look like? It looks like a...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...think of this ratio as Pareto’s law. For example, in a computer system there will be frequent but minor failures in disk accesses: these failures are normally overcome simply by retrying the access. Far more rarely, a disk’s read head will touch the delicate magnetic surface, and then the disk is effectively destroyed and access is impossible under any circumstances....
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...systems thinking and social learning for adaptive management’, Conservation Biology, 26(1), pp. 13–20. DFID, Whitty, C. and Dercon, S. (2013) ‘The evidence debate continues: Chris Whitty and Stefan Dercon respond from DFID’, From Poverty to Power. Available at: https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/the-evidence-debate-continues-chris-whitty-and-stefan-dercon-respond/...
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...systems thinking and ecopsychology. It explores our anxieties and defences associated with the climate and ecological crisis, considers forms of support and aims to help individuals and communities cope and adapt. In essence it aims to provide a psychosocial understanding by exploring the ‘interactions between the personal and the political, the psychological and the...
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...system. Think about how you approached your study in this session and use the space below to answer the following questions: What aspect of your studies on this session worked well for you, and why? What aspect did not work well, and why? Did you take any notes? If so, how have you organised these so that you can return to them in later sessions? Without looking back...
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...thinking. ‘System 1’ is fast, instinctive, often unconscious, and requires comparatively little effort. However, it tends to take shortcuts. System 1 is a necessary survival mechanism because staying alive requires making a continuous series of rapid decisions. But, at the same time, it is illogical and risks reaching conclusions that are mistaken. ‘System 2’, on...
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...thinking hard about the system of work. How to really visualise from strategy through to execution how to regularly re-prioritise based on knowledge and lessons that have been learnt and pivoting to focus on the right thing. NATASHA DAVIES: So I think, as businesses, but also from the government, we absolutely need to have investment in basic digital skills to make sure...