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How is the internet helping ensure parliamentary accountability in Bangladesh?
Digital & Computing

How is the internet helping ensure parliamentary accountability in Bangladesh?

...based, non-profit, non-partisan initiative created by a group of Bangladeshi online activists and spearheaded by expatriate blogger Sushanta Das Gupta. The over-arching mission is to make MPs aware of their responsibilities and try to ensure their accountability to the electorate. The platform lets users find out who their representative in their area is and all about the...
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NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it
Society, Politics & Law

NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it

...base. In 2003, this bloc represented just 5.6% of voters. By 2022 this had risen to above 15% and has risen at every election (2007, 2011, 2016, 2017). The party which has benefited most from this rise has been the Alliance Party, with the party commanding above 80% of all voters who opt for this brand of politics. Conclusion: what the Good Friday Agreement meant for...
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What is trauma?
Society, Politics & Law

What is trauma?

...based on misunderstandings about how sexual violence affects people. When adopting a TI approach, it is important that officers continually challenge the idea of what a ‘normal’ trauma response should look like. It is important to recognise that the general category of ‘normal’ behaviour can reflect prejudices, such as sexist double standards, e.g. who is...
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Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story
Society, Politics & Law

Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story

...based at Scotrail’s Perth depot, produced a short video story of her time as a trade union rep on the railway in Scotland. The video story comprises a selection of images captured by Gwen during her travels across the Scotrail network (and a few from beyond the Scotrail network!). Information about the places and things recorded in these images is listed in the list of...
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Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate
Languages

Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate

...based on their structure, have proved to be an influential part of the discourse. The coining of the word ‘Brexiteer’, for example, was seen as an important strategic step for the Leave campaign. In early media reporting ‘Brexiter’ and ‘Brexiteer’ were both being used with equal frequency. But, as Michael Gove explained to Ian Katz in The Spectator,...
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Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?

...based pro-poor targeted expenditures at the areas which need it most. This use of spatial data could assist several SDGs, such as: SDG 10 to reduce inequalities SDG 16 to create peace, justice, and strong institutions. Particularly during the COVID-19 global pandemic, restrictions from face-to-face interactions means we are relying on space technologies more than ever....
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Europa: Jupiter’s ocean world
Science, Maths & Technology

Europa: Jupiter’s ocean world

...based telescopes found evidence that Europa’s surface was made of water ice. At that time, it was assumed that Europa was geologically inactive, i.e. there were no processes operating on or beneath the ice, so this icy surface was expected to be covered in impact craters from bombardment over billions of years. However, in the 1970s, when NASA’s Pioneer 10 and 11 and...
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Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...based on Brian Rowan’s personal archive of material and new reflections from people close to the interlocking developments from 2005 to 2010 brings fresh insights to the complexity and dynamics of a pathway to peace. For The Open University, our partnership with Brian Rowan on this, and previously ‘Impossible Peace’ in 2024, builds on our 2019 ‘Time To Think’...
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