Doing Big Data – Intelligently
Last week we blogged about a term used by the Nobel Prize-winning author Daniel Kahneman in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow – WYSIATI (What you see is all there is). It refers to people ...
Visiting the Christmas market in Winchester – 26 November 16
Winchester? I know what you're thinking: does she mean Manchester? I too had never heard about the city Winchester before my friend from the Logistics and Supply Chain MSc course took me there. Winchester is ...
ESDU – a fantastic resource for engineers!
This is the first of a series of blog posts in which we will highlight some of our more specialist resources for engineers. This one is all about ESDU. If you're the kind of person ...
Paying Attention to Detail
After reading and trying to put into practice ideas from the book Black Box Thinking by Mathew Syed, my colleagues and I have been working our way through a book referenced by Syed – namely ...
Flexible courses required for evolving challenges in water management
Today’s environmental water managers must have a thorough understanding of a wide range of topics (from hydraulics to policy and ecology to water resources) and an arsenal of analytical tools with which to tackle them. ...
Building the case for better supporting business with purpose
Inspired by our late founder and lead sponsor, Nigel Doughty, the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility has been mapping and tracking the myriad of organisations, initiatives and time-limited projects focused in some way on the ...
The Armed Forces Covenant – supporting our armed forces community
Today we joined a growing group of organisations that have pledged support for the military community and their families by signing up to the UK Armed Forces Covenant, which gives organisations an opportunity to show their ...
A sweet deal? Sugarcane, water and agricultural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
There is a lot of discussion at the moment about the health effects of sugar consumption but have you thought about where your sugar comes from and what impact growing sugar has on the people ...
Our nation’s ability to report and consume simple statistics
This is a comment about our nation’s ability to report and consume simple statistics, not a comment on social mobility. In the Sunday Times published on 20 November this year, there were the headlines: “Southeast ...
The rebirth of the manufacturing sector
When it comes to careers at the heart of the action in terms of world-changing technologies and wealth generation, then manufacturing is the place to look. In the shadow of ICT over the past 30 ...