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'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics
Society, Politics & Law

'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics

...work practitioner to give us the real experiences of Black young people and the justice system...[handcuffs] Official government figures continually inform us that a disproportionate and increasing number of Black males, including those aged 18 and under, are being stopped and searched by the police and imprisoned. Unsurprisingly, prison population data as of 30 June 2013...
Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...social nature of reading, of being a young reader and of reading for pleasure. [Photo of children reading together.] Different terms are used internationally to capture the dispositions and motivations of those children and young people who choose to read and do so regularly. Such reading is often described as ‘free voluntary reading’, or ‘independent reading’, in...
Five ways to mark Menstrual Health Day
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways to mark Menstrual Health Day

...social media campaigns (WASH United, 2026b). It is important to note that this day is also known as Menstrual Health Day due to the potential perpetuation of damaging narratives around menstruation being a ‘hygiene’ issue. Therefore, campaigns and activist groups, such as Bloody Good Period (2025), have advocated for reframing the event to move away from a...
Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class
Languages

Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class

...social stereotypes that we have all grown up with. There is no linguistic reason for an accent to be associated with particular characteristics – we are simply loading the voice with the social baggage it has culturally acquired over generations. What Clarrie sounds like. The Archers is no stranger to the use of stereotypical accents in its construction of the social...
The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...social psychologists have turned their attention to the conspiracy theory phenomenon and scrutinised its psychological roots in a systematic way. Investigating the conspiracy theorist Much psychology research has focused on identifying factors which predispose certain individuals to endorse conspiracy theories. Given that not everyone believes in conspiracy theories,...
The dark side of American populism in the Trump era
Society, Politics & Law

The dark side of American populism in the Trump era

...social and political. The Civil War has been seen as the true American revolution; it pitted a social and political order based on rugged individualistic capitalism against one of plantation economics and strong social hierarchy, including the system of slavery. The southern model was defeated, the slaves emancipated, and Confederate leaders and sympathisers left to mourn...
The sharing economy
Society, Politics & Law

The sharing economy

...social inequality and climate change. This mounting critique of the sharing economy is partly borne out of the frustration that activists, academics and many other citizens feel when they look back at the early 2000s’ euphoria about the capacity of the sharing economy as the ‘third perspective on capitalism and consumerism’ (Heinrichs 2013) to minimise resource use,...
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Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...social enterprise version of Uber’ could work for a community transport scheme – as long as everyone understands the concept of Uber! Activity 2 Listen and learn Timing: Allow about 15 minutes Listen to the following short extract from The Bottom Line (Radio 4 Business programme commissioned by The Open University). In it Evan Davis introduces two teenage...