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Deep oceans can help us understand our climate
Nature & Environment

Deep oceans can help us understand our climate

...research comes in. [Oceans, Circulation and AMOC Graph ] Chart shows deep ocean salinity measurements Early-middle Eocene Oceans My PhD will look into reconstructing the structure and circulation of Atlantic and Southern Ocean during an interval of time known as the early-middle Eocene, approximately 45 to 50 million years ago. The early-middle Eocene was a time of...
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Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...research on the stories and experiences of young children whose families have migrated to the UK made visible through documentary photography...[Photos from Karen Horsley] Although there is often a surprise at the idea of young children using cameras intentionally to communicate and tell visual stories, my study, and others before, exemplifies their ability to do so....
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Living in a globalised world
Society, Politics & Law

Living in a globalised world

...Research into migrant workers' conditions of employment shows great inequality. Water scarcity The uncertain future of clean water facilities for the people of Juarez, Mexico. Re-using waste water How nearby El Paso, on the other side of the border to Juarez, has built a new waste-water treatment facility. Dividing up the Rio Grande The tense relations between Mexicans...
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The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...researched youth culture and private space in the United Kingdom, to what extent do the young people in your study regard their bedrooms or speak about their bedrooms as extensions of themselves, the idea this is me, this is where I am? Sian Lincoln: Yeah I mean I think Jason’s sort of example of arriving back to his home and seeing that his room has quite significantly...
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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...researchers inflicted simulated drought impacts on wheat and grasslands in a test area in the United Kingdom. They looked at carbon and nitrogen cycling effects and found that the grasslands’ fungal-based soils were better at coping with drought impacts. But once the drought stress ended, the bacteria-based soils with wheat regained their function quicker. The Loess...
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Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...research studies with this goodness of fit orientation is that of Lerner and colleagues: The ‘goodness of fit’ concept emphasizes the need to consider both the characteristics of individuality of the person and the demands of the social environment, as indexed for instance by expectations or attitudes of key significant others with whom the person interacts (e.g....
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UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind
Money & Business

UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind

...research point to an average monthly wage of £584 and a weekly household income of £229 (and these figures are likely to overstate actual wages and incomes across the local industry). Evidence we collected suggests that the underpaid wage sum for the East Midlands alone amounts to £1 million per week. In other words, underpaid wages constitute 20% of the approximate...
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What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?
Education & Development

What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?

...research projects have highlighted. Yet as the boundaries between public and private become increasingly blurred, this planning becomes ever more complex. Reforms of the English school system that have intensified since 2010 have produced a hybrid system of accountability in which numerous bodies compete and collaborate to provide educational governance. These reforms...
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