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Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...data. Proposals may be rejected by funding bodies, sometimes repeatedly. A single change in policy or the breakdown of a crucial piece of equipment can derail months of progress. [An image of a face holding up a cartoon mask in front of their face.] Psychologists Lazarus and Folkman (1984) suggest that the way we appraise stressors – whether we see them as threats or as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...data to an orbiter, which sent them to the deep space network, which sent them to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where they get to the servers on which I can view them. Being able to do so a few hours after the rover took them is pretty amazing, but even more amazing to me is that we can investigate another planet this way. I look at the images, think about the...
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Cyflwyniad i efelychu digidol ym maes gofal iechyd
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cyflwyniad i efelychu digidol ym maes gofal iechyd

...Data Efelychiad: Mae efelychiadau digidol yn newid byd! Maen nhw'n caniatáu i ni recordio ac ailchwarae ein perfformiad, er mwyn i ni allu adolygu recordiadau sgrin, metrigau perfformiad, a chofnodion penderfyniadau ar gyfer adborth gwrthrychol. Mae hyn yn newid y sgwrs o 'beth ydw i'n meddwl wnes i' i 'beth mae'r data'n ei ddangos', gan ei gwneud yn fwy adeiladol ac yn...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...data and research to make changes without fear or delay. It is a joined-up strategy that challenges old ideas about the ‘inevitability’ of suicide, stigma, and the idea that if a reduction target is achieved, the deaths on the way to it are somehow acceptable. “Even if you believe we are never going to eradicate suicide, we must strive towards that,” Mallen says....
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Article 15 mins
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...analysis of advanced capitalism in the West. He was one of the main authors (along with Stuart Hall and E.P. Thompson) of the May Day Manifesto, published on the eve of the student and worker unrest of 1968, which put forward a radical critique of contemporary capitalism in the period of the Harold Wilson Labour governments. [Statue of Sciascia in Racalmuto] Statue of...
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Article 10 mins
The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...analysis. In November 2016 the New Statesman reported that the cost of reducing migration to Government targets could be as much as £6 billion per year. A lack of accountability [22nd June 1948, Some of the first Immigrants from the Caribbean island of Jamaica arrive at Tilbury, London, on board the ' Empire Windrush'] The policy and its political fallout is largely...
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Article 10 mins
How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

...analysis of all available good quality scientific evidence in a given area. The heart of a guideline is a set of practical recommendations agreed by a committee of experts, including people with lived experience, and checked and rechecked with a wide range of people and organisations who will be affected by the eventual product. A NICE guideline is, therefore, about as...
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Cyfrifo eich ôl troed carbon
Nature & Environment

Cyfrifo eich ôl troed carbon

...analysis shows that over half the emissions reductions needed to meet the Sixth Carbon Budget [a 78% reduction on 1990 UK territorial emissions by 2035] involve people making low-carbon choices, whether adjusting to the different characteristics of low-carbon technologies (eg, electric cars), or by changing their current consumption patterns (eg, by eating less meat)....
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Article 5 mins