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Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey

...manage studying alongside your existing commitments. Or perhaps connecting with others makes you nervous. Remember, design is about change, and it will transform you too. But you must take the first step. Distance education may appeal to you because you seek change without disrupting your current life. And the potential for positive change is a powerful motivator that can...
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Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...manage and create new data has an energy overhead that is greater than the amount of energy required to do the work, therefore, any energy we are wasting by doing needless work is also creating demand for needless cooling. What is needless work? Cloud technologies are often very easy to set up and activate, and when they’re running they keep running in the background...
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Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...management corporations. Politics moved away from the idea of making society better, and instead became about the prediction and management of risk. Transcript The political narrative, hollowed out by simplification and often intentionally contradiction, took on a surreal aspect. As Curtis is fond of saying, ‘nothing quite made sense anymore’ as politicians’ stories...
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Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...management technologies that rely on biometrics and data-tracking to fast track entry for leisure and business elites and block access to those deemed a security risk or the ‘wrong’ kind of migrant. In writing about the borders of Europe, Etienne Balibar, a French political philosopher, asserted that “borders are no longer the shores of the political but have indeed...
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Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...managers and 21% of professors are women. Without structural changes, women will continue to struggle to gain recognition as independent investigators, leaders (British Council, 2022; Babcock et al., 2017; Guarino, 2017) and members of relevant committees (Bagues et al., 2017). Gendered language in academia Biases manifest through everyday language that describes similar...
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Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills
Education & Development

Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills

...managing references What others said: I saved all refs in a file as I went on. I … found that the best way for me was to go into Google Scholar and to press cite, grab the APA version which needed less modifications, and to save it in alphabetical order. [EdD student, Year 3] I think I would have tried to find a good referencing tool early, but I think I would need to...
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Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...managing their oil (Sessions 2, 3 and 5)...Session 1: The rise of China and resource demand: 1 A brief introduction to China’s relationship with Africa - China has engaged with Africa for many centuries, with Zheng He’s voyages to East Africa in the fifteenth century considered the start of regular contact between China and the African continent. During the European...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...managing. Detailed criteria were developed for both person and post and all applicants were assessed against those criteria. (b) Rational up-to-a-point decision making helped me decide which plants to grow in my garden this summer. Several plant varieties met all my criteria. There was uncertainty about weather conditions and my time and inclination for weeding;...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs