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How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?
Digital & Computing

How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?

...public safety agencies (Michigan State Police Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division, the state fusion center, the MI-ISAC, and Michigan Cyber Command Center); but perhaps more importantly – and uniquely – the document has preplanned roles for military partners (the Michigan National Guard Cyber Teams), federal partners (DHS, FEMA, US-CERT), and...
How gender equality can help fix the construction industry
Society, Politics & Law

How gender equality can help fix the construction industry

...public and with investors. This helps to boost sales and market performance. As the construction sector suffers from an extremely poor public image, we believe this impact would be particularly positive for construction firms. [Construction work at London Docklands] Regeneration work at London Docklands Our study also revealed an acute lack of gender data specific to the...
How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?
Society, Politics & Law

How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?

...public to act as jurors. Our mock jury project – the Scottish Jury Research – involved 863 participants divided into 64 juries. They all watched a video of either a rape trial or a non-sexual assault trial (where the defendant claimed he acted in self-defence). Jurors were drawn from jury service eligible members of the public to reflect a representative sample of the...
Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?

...public around the world. As co-founder of the ‘1 for 7 Billion’ campaign Natalie Samarasinghe explains: the Council’s five permanent members, Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States (P5), maintained an iron grip on the procedure for decades. There was no timeline, criteria or formal shortlist of candidates. Even elected members of the Council were often...
What is a confidence and supply government?
Society, Politics & Law

What is a confidence and supply government?

...public and the Liberals' electoral support nosedived. The pact did provide political stability, though. It kept the Labour Party in power, during which time there was a modest economic recovery. It was supported by the City of London and, according to contemporary opinion polls, enjoyed significant public support. The Liberals eventually broke off the pact in August 1978...
Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...public attention by the 2016 book Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and film of the same name. I have rarely watched a film that has moved me as much as Hidden Figures did when I first saw it. And I have seen it at least twice since when I have led discussions about the significance of the film, drawing on my own experience of working in the space industry. In...
Is America better than this?
Society, Politics & Law

Is America better than this?

...Public Safety Bull Connor and his police forces jailed 1,200 men, women and children who took part in peaceful protest. Last August, DC police had no difficulty arresting 41 participants in a Black Lives Matter protest march. You might come to the conclusion that the police know perfectly well how to arrest peaceful Black and Brown people in the street, but seem at a loss...
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...public debates around ‘veiling’ often evoke stereotypical images associating the Islamic ‘veil’ with ‘gendered oppression’, political and/or religious extremism, ‘otherness’, refusal to be a ‘good citizen’ and irreconcilable difference between ‘the modern West’ and ‘Islam’ (Sinclair, 2012). ‘Face-veils’ in particular have also been...
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