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Festival of Science 2010, 19th–25th April 2010

Kartografija i Geoinformacije, 2010
Universities in Zagreb, Split, Osijek and Rijeka, in collaboration with the Technical Museum in Zagreb and the British Council and under auspices of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia organised the new, eighth ...
Brankica Cigrovski Detelić, Ivka Kljajić, Robert Župan   +2 more
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From Research to Reach

Exchanges
In this article, I reflect on my experience organising an international public engagement festival as a doctoral researcher specialising in interactional research, sharing my observations and insights on accessible research communication strategies ...
Yanyan Li
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Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
wiley   +1 more source

Development and mixed-methods evaluation of an instructional manual for sustainable physics learning in higher education

Frontiers in Education
This study presents the mixed-methods evaluation of the Emerging Junctures, Outstanding Physics Investigatory Projects Festival (EJOY PIPsFe) instructional manual, a structured teaching guide designed to enhance sustainable physics learning in higher ...
Ricio Milo Salibay
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Electric Universe and Before: How One Science Writer Gets Ideas for his Books

, 2005
Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, Brookman Hall, 3:00pm, Sunday 10 July, 2005.
Adelaide Festival Corporation, Steel, Duncan, Bodanis, David   +2 more
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
wiley   +1 more source

Four shades of science festival: a qualitative study exploring the business and management dimensions of science festivals in the United Kingdom

Science festivals are a global cultural phenomenon with at least 60 such festivals taking place across the UK every year. Science festivals fulfil a unique function within civil society: providing a platform for science communication, education, and ...
Kerr, Gary
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ANZAAS Junior Science Festival, 1994

, 1994
Peter Ciszewski (right) Division of Science, Engineering and Design demonstrates some of the properties of air, one of the hands-on experiments carried out at the ANZAAS Junior Science Festival. The festival was held on 9th and 10th August to explain the
Swinburne University of Technology
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THE CONTESTED CITY OF VENICE: Caring for Commodified Common Infrastructures in a Touristified Environment

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay I reveal contested common infrastructures in the interplay between vanishing public infrastructures in Venice and lack of care by governmental actors in a city with a shrinking number of inhabitants. I examine care and commodified public infrastructures in heritage cities facing mass tourism and climate change effects by zooming ...
Cornelia Dlabaja
wiley   +1 more source