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00:06:19

Raising the Quality of Qualitative Research

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2010/08/20

Contributor(s): Dr Kavita Abraham | Qualitative data can provide a researcher with a lot of interesting information , but trying to interpret what it means can lead to methodological problems. Unlike a list of numbers, the meaning of a text is not something everyone will necessarily agree on. It’s much easier for researcher bias to affect the interpretation, and it’s often difficult to explicitly demonstrate how conclusions have been reached. But what if you could train a machine to do the analysis

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00:08:00

A Very Modern Action: The Spring Reprisals of 1917

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2010/08/10

Contributor(s): Dr Heather Jones | The prisoner reprisals of 1917 were a retaliatory action taken by German forces against captured French and British troops, in reaction to poor British and French treatment of German prisoner workers. This was a ruthless, calculated policy, intended to manipulate public opinion, as Heather Jones from the Department of International History explains. Prisoners held behind German lines during the 1917 reprisals were forced to work under shellfire on subsistence

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A Very Modern Action: The Spring Reprisals of 1917

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2010/08/10

Contributor(s): Dr Heather Jones

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05:20

Washington's revolving door

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2010/07/15

Contributor(s): Mirko Draca

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Washington's revolving door

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2010/07/15

Contributor(s): Mirko Draca | Lobbying is big business in US politics, and getting bigger. Many commentators have voiced suspicions about the ties between lobbying firms, private sector businesses, and politics. They allege that a "revolving door", which sees employees moving from public office to private companies and back again, potentially jeopardises the public interest. Often highly paid, these lobbyists claim their salaries simply reflect their high ability, but critics complain those exiting

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00:06:45

The moral structure of legal systems - part 1:...

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2010/06/04

Contributor(s): Dr Kristen Rundle | Is law inherently moral or does Nazi law provide tragic proof that law has no intrinsic moral worth? For Positivists, such as H L A Hart, the systemic integrity of a legal code says nothing about its content – the law is simply whatever is put forward by lawgivers. In contrast natural lawyers, notably Lon Fuller, insist that the way law is expressed carries moral significance for those who are subject to it. In this film Dr Kristen Rundle, from the Department of

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05:35

The moral structure of legal systems - part 2: an...

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2010/06/04

Contributor(s): Dr Kristen Rundle

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00:05:35

The moral structure of legal systems - part 2: an...

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2010/06/04

Contributor(s): Dr Kristen Rundle | Typically, the legal codes of despotic states lack transparency (you aren’t told what the laws are), lack consistency (one law will contradict another, making it impossible to obey both), often endorse retroactivity (you’re guilty today for an act that wasn’t illegal when you did it), and permit unannounced changes to the law. For Dr Kristen Rundle, from the Department of Law, this isn’t just a case of poor legal housekeeping. In this short film she discusses how

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06:45

The moral structure of legal systems - part 1:...

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2010/06/04

Contributor(s): Dr Kristen Rundle

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06:00

The Mathematics of Machine Learning

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2010/05/04

Contributor(s): Professor Martin Anthony

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00:06:00

The Mathematics of Machine Learning

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2010/05/04

Contributor(s): Professor Martin Anthony | Diagnosing tumours, playing video games, detecting credit card fraud, recognising faces, reading handwriting… they don't seem like similar tasks, but they are all cases where "machine learning" is employed to enable computers to make intelligent decisions. And although the various tasks look very different, the mathematics behind them is remarkably similar, as Professor Martin Anthony explains in this short film. When computers fail to do something we find

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05:36

A New Approach To Child Protection

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2010/04/15

Contributor(s): Professor Eileen Munro

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00:05:36

A New Approach To Child Protection

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2010/04/15

Contributor(s): Professor Eileen Munro | Baby P, Victoria Climbié - the names have become symbolic of the failures of the child protection agencies. Professor Eileen Munro, a former social worker herself and now an expert on child protection reform, believes that more attention needs to be given to the system, rather than just the individuals, that allowed these tragedies to occur. In this short film, she explains that only allocating blame to individual social workers and managers can leave the

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00:09:05

The Second Indian Green Revolution

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2010/03/10

Contributor(s): Peter Howlett, Aashish Velkar | Independent of British rule, the Indian economy expanded rapidly - but as the population also expanded, fears grew that the land would not be able to feed the rising numbers. The government took action and, during the 1960s, 70s, and into the 80s, impending famine was successfully averted through a series of agricultural policies designed to increase crop yields. This became known as the "Green Revolution." As part of a major project investigating how

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The Second Indian Green Revolution

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2010/03/10

Contributor(s): Peter Howlett, Aashish Velkar

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06:38

On the evolution of morality

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2010/01/29

Contributor(s): Jason Mckenzie Alexander

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00:06:38

On the evolution of morality

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2010/01/29

Contributor(s): Dr Jason Alexander | While we grapple with the finer points of stem cell research or the ethics of assisted suicide, some moral issues are so obviously wrong that we hardly need to debate them. Yet history swiftly belies our notion of the ethically self-evident precept. Cultures in the past have flourished for many centuries at a time – fostering technical innovation, establishing centres of learning and culture – while simultaneously permitting slavery or human sacrifice or

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05:36

Choice and the Future of Healthcare

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2009/12/08

Contributor(s): Zack Cooper

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00:05:36

Choice and the Future of Healthcare

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2009/12/08

Contributor(s): Zack Cooper | Deriding it as “socialism by stealth,” critics of President Obama’s plans for healthcare reform in the US have complained that the President intends to institute an American National Health Service. Meanwhile, in the UK, the NHS itself is becoming increasingly market-led with the roll-out of “NHS Choices” – a system which allows patients to choose their healthcare provider. Some see the “Choice” agenda as steering the NHS troublingly close to privatisation. In this

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04:49

Living in the Second Nuclear Age

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2009/12/07

Contributor(s): Professor Arne Westad

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501 results

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