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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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In 2019, the University of Technology Sydney, where Emil works, made headlines when it adjusted the entry requirements for women candidates applying to engineering degrees, in the hope of encouraging more women to study engineering, a field where they are historically under-represented. What has Emil discovered?

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

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It involves not just fire behaviour but also animal ecology, human ethics, social science, engineering, politics, environmental law, health science and mathematics.” Every researcher at FLARE has followed a unique path to their current work. .” • As well as collecting data, you need to know what to do with them.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Dr Joanna Leng , from the University of Leeds in the UK, is a research software engineer who designs and develops the software that allows scientific imaging devices to be used to their full potential. TALK LIKE A RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEER. One area of research computing that is in high demand is research software engineering.