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Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship

...successfully administer support to the community where the state is inadequate. Sexual Citizens and Orientalism Dr Leticia Sabsay’s research focuses on ‘sexual citizenship’ and how the consequences of its emergence and expansion have forced Western societies to confront their own assumptions about freedom and equality within political, social and contemporary life....
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Riddle of the Tay Bridge disaster
Science, Maths & Technology

Riddle of the Tay Bridge disaster

...researching the Tay Bridge disaster, and here he shares his theory that the train de-railed through a combination of heavy wind and a weak girder. Tom Martin's Tay Bridge analysis Mathematician Tom Martin uses the modern method of 'structural computer analysis' to understand the failure of the bridge, and looks at how this failure started at the base columns due to heavy...
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Audio 30 mins
What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...research on the persistence of Delhi’s informal recycling economy shows just how important cash is to low-income laborers. How Delhi’s informal recycling economy works For the past few years, my work has focused on informal garbage collectors in a northwest Delhi neighborhood who collect garbage for middle-class residents across the city. Beyond collecting trash,...
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From headlines to hashtags: is the FA doing enough to promote gender equality through social media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

From headlines to hashtags: is the FA doing enough to promote gender equality through social media?

...Research indicates that social media, with its extensive reach and low costs, presents an opportunity for women’s sports to overcome financial barriers and connect with fans, contributing to a more level playing field with men’s sports. However, there has been limited investigation into how governing bodies utilise platforms such as Twitter to promote their teams, and...
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Article 10 mins
Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...research using existing research tools; in this way, we might come up with design decisions collaboratively. We can define modular and extensible languages that embody design decisions but still allow for flexibility and special cases (like Cascading Style Sheets). We should also learn how to document our design decisions so that they serve other collaborators. Designers...
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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...researchers have suggested that children’s concepts of themselves as male or female play a critical role in encouraging children to identify and endorse gender roles. This notion was first set out at the same time as the early social learning approaches to gender development. The book that contained Mischel’s (1966) account of the social learning approach to gender...
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What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...research into how bats use echolocation to locate their prey and also to prevent other bats from locating the same prey...This free course, What are waves? explains what waves are. It describes different types of wave as well as their properties. You can listen to the song of a humpback whale and learn about the process of echolocation which is used by dolphins to locate...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...research identified academic teachers and teaching practices as well as student services and support as key to student success (Baik et al., 2019) . [Described image] Although the data outlined in the first section demonstrates a high prevalence of students with a mental health condition, Pereira et al. (2019) found that up to 50 per cent of students who identified as...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs