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Drugs and the law: Legal highs
Society, Politics & Law

Drugs and the law: Legal highs

...research has indicated that there has been a significant negative impact on the homeless community. This has led the government to take action to criminalise the possession and supply of legal highs last year, but there remains an interesting debate regarding whether prohibition is the best way to tackle the misuse of drugs. This brief article gives an overview of the law...
Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?

...research shows that over three-quarters of people in the UK have heard of Veganuary. But its rapid expansion may be surprising. The brainchild of its founders Jane Land and Matthew Glover, Veganuary began with just 3,300 sign-ups in 2014. Since then, it’s mushroomed (no pun intended!) to 1.8 million people being directly supported by Veganuary in 2024, and an estimated...
Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
Education & Development

Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection

...research and advice on appeals for people who have been convicted of very serious criminal offences but who are maintaining their innocence. Over the summer of 2020, FLC recognised that students needed additional virtual experiential learning opportunities and therefore brought together law students from across eight universities to collaborate on a project that explored...
How should Rwanda remember the genocide?
History & The Arts

How should Rwanda remember the genocide?

...research shows that, although some survivors feel validated when former perpetrators join them at commemoration ceremonies, others fear that requiring former genocidaires to attend when they still don’t accept their guilt might result in a backlash. Some individuals attend kwibuka to support their neighbours but do not consider it their “own story.” Others consider...
What happens ‘When East Meets West’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens ‘When East Meets West’?

...research project is novel in that I Skype interviewed distance learners who engaged with another culture from the comfort of their own homes. Mind the culture gap! Previous studies have focussed on culture shock whereas my findings highlighted that distance learning may help reduce some of the barriers of being ‘culturally different’ that might exist in traditional...
What are the secrets of enduring love?
Society, Politics & Law

What are the secrets of enduring love?

...research study with over five thousand people in long-term relationships. We wanted to find out what they were actually doing to make their relationships work, so that we could share their secrets with you. In this book we’ve brought together the findings of that study with what we know from other research on love, and from relationship therapy, to give you the low-down...
The biology of loving our pets
Science, Maths & Technology

The biology of loving our pets

...research has shown that we also release oxytocin, the love hormone, when we see, play or stroke our pets. A study published in Science found that looking into the eyes of pet dogs can increase our oxytocin levels by almost 300% (Nagasawa et al., 2015)! [Rabbit looking at the camera sat next to a ball and a cuddly toy.]Oxytocin does many things in the body, including...
Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust
Education & Development

Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust

...research with 99 home-educating families. Children had originally enrolled at school and been expected to remain in mainstream formal education. For example, one parent ‘assumed they would go down the same route as me and go to school and then maybe uni.’ Another believed ‘they would be supported as an individual throughout the mainstream education that we thought...