scholarly journals Retraction: Challenges and opportunities of hydrothermal carbonisation in the UK; case study in Chirnside

RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (54) ◽  
pp. 33938-33938
Author(s):  
Eloise Bevan ◽  
Jile Fu ◽  
Ying Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Hydrothermal Carbonisation ◽  
The Uk

Retraction of ‘Challenges and opportunities of hydrothermal carbonisation in the UK; case study in Chirnside’ by Eloise Bevan et al., RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 31586–31610, DOI: 10.1039/d0ra04607h.

scholarly journals Challenges and opportunities of hydrothermal carbonisation in the UK; case study in Chirnside

RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (52) ◽  
pp. 31586-31610
Author(s):  
Eloise Bevan ◽  
Jile Fu ◽  
Ying Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Hydrothermal Carbonization ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Biomass Waste ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Hydrothermal Carbonisation ◽  
The Uk

Hydrothermal carbonization: a great technology converting biomass waste to energy.

scholarly journals Challenges and opportunities of hydrothermal carbonisation in the UK; case study in Chirnside

RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (55) ◽  
pp. 34870-34897
Author(s):  
Eloise Bevan ◽  
Jile Fu ◽  
Mauro Luberti ◽  
Ying Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Hydrothermal Carbonisation ◽  
The Uk

The latest research and development in hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) processes are reviewed and the feasibility of application to small towns in the UK is assessed.

scholarly journals Taking Clinical Legal Education Online: Songs of Innocence and Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Hugh McFaul ◽  
Liz Hardie ◽  
Francine Ryan ◽  
Keren Lloyd Bright ◽  
Neil Graffin
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Pro Bono ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Songs Of Innocence

<p>In common with the wider higher education sector, clinical legal education practitioners are facing the challenge of how to adapt their teaching practices to accommodate the restrictions imposed by governmental responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Facilitating distance learning via online technologies has unsurprisingly become an area of increasing interest in the hope that it may offer a potential solution to the problem of how to continue teaching undergraduates in a socially distanced environment.</p><p><br />This paper seeks to provide clinical legal education practitioners with evidence-based insights into the challenges and opportunities afforded by using digital technologies to deliver clinical legal education. It adopts a case study approach by reflecting on the Open Justice Centre’s four-year experience of experimenting with online technologies to provide meaningful and socially useful legal pro bono projects for students studying a credit bearing undergraduate law module. It will analyse how a number of different types of pro bono activity were translated into an online environment, identify common obstacles and posit possible solutions. In doing so, this paper aims to provide a timely contribution to the literature on clinical legal education and offer a means to support colleagues in law schools in the UK and internationally, who are grappling with the challenges presented by taking clinical legal education online.</p>

scholarly journals Taking Clinical Legal Education Online: Songs of Innocence and Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-38
Author(s):  
Hugh McFaul ◽  
Liz Hardie ◽  
Francine Ryan ◽  
Keren Lloyd Bright ◽  
Neil Graffin
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Pro Bono ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Songs Of Innocence

In common with the wider higher education sector, clinical legal education practitioners are facing the challenge of how to adapt their teaching practices to accommodate the restrictions imposed by governmental responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Facilitating distance learning via online technologies has unsurprisingly become an area of increasing interest in the hope that it may offer a potential solution to the problem of how to continue teaching undergraduates in a socially distanced environment.This paper seeks to provide clinical legal education practitioners with evidence-based insights into the challenges and opportunities afforded by using digital technologies to deliver clinical legal education. It adopts a case study approach by reflecting on the Open Justice Centre’s four-year experience of experimenting with online technologies to provide meaningful and socially useful legal pro bono projects for students studying a credit bearing undergraduate law module. It will analyse how a number of different types of pro bono activity were translated into an online environment, identify common obstacles and posit possible solutions. In doing so, this paper aims to provide a timely contribution to the literature on clinical legal education and offer a means to support colleagues in law schools in the UK and internationally, who are grappling with the challenges presented by taking clinical legal education online.

scholarly journals Supporting the employability agenda in university libraries

2018 ◽  
Vol 119 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Mawson ◽  
Amy C. Haworth
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
Work Done

Purpose This paper aims to outline work to support the employability agenda in the Library at the University of Sheffield, set in the context of debates about the nature of employability, employability skills and information literacy in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach The paper starts with a brief review of literature on employability and student skills in the UK higher education sector, the place of information literacy as an employability attribute and information literacy in the workplace. It goes on to outline work done in the Library at the University of Sheffield to support the employability agenda. This includes the development of a commercial awareness workshop in collaboration with other services and the incorporation of student and alumni voices in an employability guide. Findings The literature reviewed highlights the differences between information literacy in the workplace and academia. This could present challenges and opportunities in promoting information literacy as an employability attribute. The case study highlights the benefits of working in collaboration with students and services beyond the library in the employability arena. Originality/value The approaches taken in Sheffield may be of interest to other institutions looking to develop support for the employability agenda.

scholarly journals Online Education and the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case Study of Online Teaching during Lockdown

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nastaran Peimani ◽  
Hesam Kamalipour
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a critical challenge for the higher education sector. Exploring the capacity of this sector to adapt in the state of uncertainty has become more significant than ever. In this paper, we critically reflect on our experience of teaching urban design research methods online during the early COVID-19 lockdown in the UK. This is an exploratory case study with a qualitative approach with an aim to inform resilient practices of teaching in the face of public health emergencies. Drawing on the experience of teaching the Research Methods and Techniques subject during lockdown, we discuss the rapid transition from face-to-face to online teaching and point to the challenges and opportunities in relation to the learning and teaching activities, assessment and feedback, and digital platforms. This paper concludes by outlining some key considerations to inform the development of more adaptive and resilient approaches to online teaching in the context of unprecedented global health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that it is critical to move beyond fixed pedagogical frameworks to harness the productive capacities of adaptive teaching.

scholarly journals Archival strategies for contemporary collecting in a world of big data: Challenges and opportunities with curating the UK web archive

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395172199040
Author(s):  
Nicola Jayne Bingham ◽  
Helena Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
British Library ◽  
National Library ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
British Culture ◽  
Web Archive

In this contribution, we will discuss the opportunities and challenges arising from memory institutions' need to redefine their archival strategies for contemporary collecting in a world of big data. We will reflect on this topic by critically examining the case study of the UK Web Archive, which is made up of the six UK Legal Deposit Libraries: the British Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales, Bodleian Libraries Oxford, Cambridge University Library and Trinity College Dublin. The UK Web Archive aims to archive, preserve and give access to the UK web space. This is achieved through an annual domain crawl, first undertaken in 2013, in addition to more frequent crawls of key websites and specially curated collections which date back as far as 2005. These collections reflect important aspects of British culture and events that shape society. This commentary will explore a number of questions including: what heritage is captured and what heritage is instead neglected by the UK Web archive? What heritage is created in the form of new data and what are its properties? What are the ethical issues that memory institutions face when developing these web archiving practices? What transformations are required to overcome such challenges and what institutional futures can we envisage?

Neither Victors nor Victims

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Whetham
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
High Street ◽  
National Survival ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Military Relations ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Realistic Goal

Between 2007 and 2011, Wootton Bassett, a small Wiltshire town in the UK, became the focus of national attention as its residents responded to the regular repatriations of dead soldiers through its High Street. The town’s response came to symbolize the way that broader attitudes developed and changed over that period. As such, it is a fascinating case study in civil–military relations in the twenty-first century. Success may be the same as victory, but victory, at least as it has been traditionally understood, is not a realistic goal in many types of contemporary conflict. Discretionary wars—conflicts in which national survival is not an issue and even vital national interests may not be at stake—pose particular challenges for any government which does not explain why the cost being paid in blood and treasure is ‘worth it’.

The political economy of and practical policies for inclusive growth—a case study of Scotland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Houston ◽  
Georgiana Varna ◽  
Iain Docherty
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Inclusive Governance ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Civic Institutions

Abstract The concept of ‘inclusive growth’ (IG) is discussed in a political economy framework. The article reports comparative analysis of economic and planning policy documents from Scotland, England and the UK and findings from expert workshops held in Scotland, which identify four key policy areas for ‘inclusive growth’: skills, transport and housing for young people; city-regional governance; childcare; and place-making. These policies share with the ‘Foundational Economy’ an emphasis on everyday infrastructure and services, but add an emphasis on inter-generational justice and stress the importance of community empowerment as much as re-municipalisation. Factors enabling IG policy development include: the necessary political powers; a unifying political discourse and civic institutions; and inclusive governance and participatory democracy.

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