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How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility
Society, Politics & Law

How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility

...world, social mobility is not limited to people living solely within one nation's borders any more. To better comprehend how social mobility works in a transnational world, we need a more dynamic way of understanding how migrants are enabled to – or hindered from – using their cultural, social and economic resources for social mobility. By using a multi-level,...
Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV

...world, and receive and respond to new knowledge. Yet climate change is an issue that seems designed to be ignored. It lacks the human angles and clear storylines that are so central to the majority of broadcast storytelling. Broadcasters also think that TV audiences are allergic to anything that could be construed as ‘preachy.’ But the last year or so does throw up of...
Being human: spirit, consciousness and being (or not being) in bodies
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being human: spirit, consciousness and being (or not being) in bodies

...world we can touch, see, hear, smell and taste. People often describe a sense of being lifted out of their body during such moments and seeing things from a ‘higher’ perspective. To return to Dr Hfuhruhurr, transcendental spiritual experiences often trigger a very real perception of the ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ existing independent of the physical body. Some believe...
A brief history of the eisteddfod
History & The Arts

A brief history of the eisteddfod

...World’s Fair at Chicago in 1893, where the Welsh Ladies’ Choir conducted by Clara Novello Davies and the Rhondda Gleemen conducted by Tom Stephens were both winners in their respective categories. [Newspaper article from 1893 detailing the eisteddfod at the Chicago World's Fair]Article in The Western Mail, 21st September 1893, detailing the eisteddfod in Chicago. Read...
Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...world around us by interpreting information collected by our sense organs and providing a means by which this can affect our behaviour. Of course, whilst these functions are of great interest, they are often not the big questions asked about the brain. These big questions centre around how our brain allows us to think original thoughts, learn new information, and, of...
Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Money & Business

Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise

...world works. We don’t have perfect foresight, or complete understanding. We often don’t even behave rationally! In the real world there are inefficiencies (e.g. unemployment) and these can be reduced through government action, for instance by incentivising new green industries. New ‘simulation-based’ approaches do not assume optimisation or equilibrium, but...
Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...world Organisational and technological change’s pace and scale mean a trend of changing relationships at work. This trend points to a future of increasingly automated, disaggregated forms of working (e.g., working as part of temporary teams that are geographically separate). In addition, the projected skills gaps mean that there will be an increasing need for employees...
Are we taking the fun out of reading?
Education & Development

Are we taking the fun out of reading?

...world”, both in the home and, even more so, in nature. To overlay books over nature in this way diminishes the joy of both. This was not an isolated observation; and I have a fair number of records of dutiful but joyless interactions between carers and young children in the children’s sections of bookstores and public libraries. Many carers seemed to regard it as...