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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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Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?
Society, Politics & Law

Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?

...research on how states illegally obtain missile technologies and my experience conducting outreach related to U.N. sanctions give me some insight into the methods North Korea used to make illicit procurements and the limitations in using technology-based sanctions to prevent them. Technology-based sanctions In 2006 – following North Korea’s first nuclear test – the...
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How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

...research which studies the social relationships of organized crime in Chicago in the 1920s, Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos were able to take advantage ofthe availability of thousands of notes and documents on Al Capone’s criminal network. By applying network analysis to the criminal relationships in Capone’s gangs they find that multiplexity – when two...
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The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...P. (2013) Irish Emigration in an age of austerity. UCC: Cork, http://www.research.ie/intro_slide/research-funded-irish-research-council-irish-emigration-age-austerity http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/rural-ireland-can-she-fix-it-1.1898223 August 2014 Acknowledgements This material draws from Open University programmes and a course based on the work of Pat Jess....
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Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?

...Lead at the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care); Dr Chantal Meystre (Director of The Omega Course) and Dr Guy Peryer (Lecturer and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) East of England Palliative and End of Life Care Research Fellow). The recording is available as an episode of the Open Thanatology Talks! Podcast series, available on Spotify and Amazon Music....
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Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...research evidence strongly suggests that education in prison can help people desist (move away) from offending". The UK has one of the highest rates of re-offending in the Western world and this comes at huge costs to both taxpayers and victims. Encouraging engagement with education in prisons should be a priority as it has been shown to work in reducing re-offending....
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How gender equality can help fix the construction industry
Society, Politics & Law

How gender equality can help fix the construction industry

...research looking into whether having women in senior positions boosts business financial performance. [Circular chart shows the age (20-70+) in five year increments of men and women involved in the industry. The majority of women in the industry are in the younger bands whilst men are more dominant in the older bands. Men are in dark blue and women are in pale green.]...
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