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Audio feedback is an effective way to provide constructive feedback that your students will want to engage with. This video shows how you can use existing UCL platforms, like Moodle and AssessmentUCL to give record voice comments on student assessments.
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5/23/2022
The inauguration of the UCL Urban Laboratory. The UCL Urban Laboratory, established in 2005, is a university wide initiative to bring together the best urban teaching and research at UCL. Their activities build on the full spectrum of work at UCL across the arts and sciences ranging from civil engineering to film studies, from urban history to the latest developments in architectural design.
Matthew Gandy
Published: SEP 12, 2010
2009-06-01-09-32-27-UCL_Urban_Laboratory-audio
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5/25/2021
‘Boxing: A Cultural History’ is a new investigation of the shifting social, political and cultural resonances of the visceral sport by UCL English lecturer Kasia Boddy. Dr Boddy demonstrates that the ring has proven to be a enduring venue for staging ideas about class, violence, gender, work, leisure, ideology, politics, race and nation. Here she describes the social and historical significance of a selection of the images from her book, published by Reaktion Books.
2008-08-04-11-35-13-Boxing_A_Cultural_History-audio
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5/24/2021
Professor Thomas explains the findings of her research into the behaviour of juries and their implications for the criminal justice system.
UCL_News_Podcast_Are_juries_fair-audio
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5/19/2021
Highly intelligent adults with Asperger’s Syndrome have difficulties with
day-to-day social interaction. These difficulties have been explained by the
term ‘mindblindness’. This means an inability to explain and predict other
people’s behaviour on the basis of their psychological motives.
The 'mindblindness' theory was first proposed in 1985 by a team of UCL
researchers and has now been widely accepted. However, one problem with the
theory has since remained. Adults with Asperger's Syndrome pass all the
tests of mindblindness. If their social difficulties, which are similar to
those of autistic children, have to be explained in a different way, then
the mindblindness theory would lose much of its power. A new study led by
Uta Frith, (UCL Institute of Neuroscience) and Atsushi Senju of Birkbeck
College London published in Science, has now provided an answer to this
conundrum.
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5/11/2021
”Approximately one person in 20 will suffer from a ‘self-attack’ autoimmune disease during the course of their lifetime. These may vary from diseases that principally affect a single organ – such as diabetes, where the attack is directed towards the pancreas – to diseases in which many organs and systems are directly attacked. The factors that conspire to cause these diseases, many of which are life-threatening, will be discussed in the context of a card game analogy.”
2008-11-12-14-34-12-Autoimmune_Diseases_-_A_Card_Game_Analogy-audio-1
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4/28/2021
Angels & Demons is discussed. In this sequel to The Da Vinci Code a bomb using anti-matter produced at the particle physics laboratory CERN is used to terrorise the Vatican. The lecture considers questions such as is an anti-matter bomb viable, how does it compare to conventional nuclear devices and can anti-matter be used as a source of electrical power? Examples of more peaceful real-world uses for anti-matter from within the fields of medicine and fundamental physics research are also explored.
"Angels & Demons - Lecture Night - The Science Revealed"
Dr Robert Flack
UCL Institute of Origins
21 May 2009
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4/21/2021
Special Guest Lecture, Wednesday 1 December 2010
Change Leadership in a Carbon Constrained Economy
The Hon Mike Rann CNZM MP, Premier of South Australia and Minister for Sustainability and Climate.
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3/9/2021