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Writing your research proposal
Education & Development

Writing your research proposal

...data you aim to generate. Mostly, this falls into two broad categories, qualitative and quantitative (sometimes these can be mixed). Many academics question this distinction and suggest the methodology categories are better understood as unstructured or structured. For example, let’s imagine you are asking a group of people about their sugary snack preferences. You may...
Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...data and insights to better manage and report on their carbon impact, which links with their broader sustainability strategy. From the employee perspective, if implemented carefully, this can come across less as invasive activity tracking and monitoring, but rather a joined-up approach to help reduce their, and their employer’s collective environmental impact. Further,...
Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing

...data so there are also regulatory and legal issues to consider: where any data goes and how it is going to be used now or in the future are key concerns for people using social work services (Haider et al., 2026). Social work is also rooted in challenging inequality and prejudice. There is evidence, however, that current AI systems and tools can reinforce and perpetuate...
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...analysis of the SST indicates the three main forms that a child’s internal working model can take. A child with a Type A attachment has a rather troubled attachment to her parent. She is often not upset at separation, and tends not to get close to her parent even when they are reunited after a separation. Often, she turns away from, rather than towards, the parent. She...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...analysis and the percentage of different elements can be worked out. But normally it is a combination of methods. There are more indirect routes that don’t look at the elements in the rocks themselves but measure them in the water of streams and rivers. The ‘concentration’ (amount per unit volume or mass) of metals that are found dissolved in stream and river water...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old
History & The Arts

From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old

...analysis – carefully describing its legal, social and scientific dimensions – before concluding that there are multiple species of fart, including “the sonorous and full-toned or rousing fart,” “the double fart,” “the soft fizzing fart,” “the wet fart” and “the sullen wind-bound fart.” The philosophy of fart jokes Clearly, as these examples show,...
How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...analysis of working-class life in the North. The show adopts many of the themes that Hoggart identifies in working-class culture, including the emphasis on the strength of women and the ambivalent class position of pub landlords and others hovering at the boundaries of the petit-bourgeois (or what politicians now like to call ‘aspirational Britain’). After more than a...
Why did millions march against Trump?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did millions march against Trump?

...analysis continues. In the coming month, we are launching a separate survey to better understand a group social movement scholars are sometimes less inclined to study: people who do not participate in marches on January 21 (there are exceptions to this of course). As social movement scholars know, mobilization is actually a rare occurrence when we consider the range of...