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Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...Centre for Research Innovation and Future Development, Did you know, in 2028… (2014) Did you know... that in 2028, when these children are preparing to leave school, global population will be pushing 8.3 billion. Islam will be the world’s largest religion, with 2.2 billion followers. The ‘average’ person will be a 34 year-old Indian man. Wearable technology will...
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...Research website: Interrogating identity and citizenship through art Here on OpenLearn, discover how people came together to consider how we make sense of questions of citizenship at a time when those questions are so contentious: Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change? Another recent research project that used creative methods to co-produce...
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UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind
Money & Business

UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind

...Centre for Sustainable Work and Employment Futures at the University of Leicester. Workers paying the price The report, which investigated the working conditions and business models of clothing manufacturers in Leicester and the East Midlands, found that the majority of the workforce earns around £3 per hour (compared to a National Minimum Wage rate of £6.50). Workers...
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The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...centres, often never to return, while also increasing potential access to, and participation in, higher education. Despite the many challenges presented, the demise of rural Ireland is exaggerated, though the challenges of peripherality remain. The uniqueness of each place yields certain opportunities to be harnessed, as Father McDyer recognised in the past, such as the...
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Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland

...research, I found that on one level, the practice is culturally invisible to the people who do it. Initially, some could not understand why I wanted to talk with them about a purely practical task. In my research diary, I recall Cillian saying: Danny, what is there to tell. If a neighbour dies, I dig a grave for them – what is there to tell? Tim thought the men who dig...
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From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...research must rely on incomplete and evolving data. At the same time, experts often possess valuable domain knowledge. A clinician may draw on experience with similar treatments, while a climate scientist may understand long-term physical patterns and constraints. Even when experts cannot provide precise numerical answers, they can often describe what values are realistic...
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Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit

...research and teaching. What had been the point, I wondered, of trying to offer resources with which to think when the result appeared to reflect the priority of visceral feelings over thought, and to privilege authenticity (who is speaking) rather than expertise (the authority of facts and evidence). And, if what you speak is dismissed as being politically correct, how...
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Humans better at rapid change than we think
Nature & Environment

Humans better at rapid change than we think

...Centre(based at the University of Sussex in the UK) and was funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council. It details 14 stories of the sort of change it believes we need now. The choice is necessarily highly selective – “just a glimpse of where we might look”, as the authors put it. One story describes the New Deal in 1930s America, which, the study...
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