Some thoughts on learning new science
I’m now half-way through my Higher Certificate in Genetics. The course is run by the redoubtable Institute of Continuing Education at Cambridge, and every Tuesday evening for the last two terms, I’ve been knuckling down with about 15 other mature students to learn about DNA and modern evidence for evolution. It’s been interesting. I was a straight-arts student at school, fairly steeped in language, literature and history, who went on to do experimental psychology at university. To my friends in Art History or German, I was Nearly A Scientist (Although Weird). ...
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This Tuesday I went along to the Occupational Psychology/Organizational Behaviour catch-up day at Birkbeck and experienced the luxury of a full day noodling around new research concepts and the thrill of hearing the word ‘critical’ from someone else’s lips. It was an interesting mixture of heavy content and some of the worst Powerpoint I have seen. Some of the standouts were actually the Masters projects, rather than faculty. the stand-out talks Diane Burns presented a nice project based on discourse analysis, looking at the meaning of ‘collaboration’ in a...
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