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How much money does the UK really contribute to the European Union?
Science, Maths & Technology

How much money does the UK really contribute to the European Union?

...research in UK universities). ONS data does not separately identify direct flows from the EU to the UK private sector. Data from the European Commission (EC) does account for some credits to the private sector. Let’s now take a look at how it calculates the UK’s contribution using its own figures. Using the latest available figures published by the EC, a wider...
Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...Research), https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/empire-marketing-board-1926-33-britains-failed-attempt-soft-trade-policy. Drawing on their ‘Britain’s Empire Marketing Board and the failure of soft trade, 1926-1933’, in European Review of Economic History, 25, pp. 780-805 Horton, Melanie. Empire Marketing Board Posters (Manchester: Scala, 2010). A small booklet that...
Strategies to reduce the prison population
Society, Politics & Law

Strategies to reduce the prison population

...research has shown, residential therapeutic communities work in addressing substance misuse and one of the key goals should be promoting such treatment. In addition, the vast majority of women prisoners have been sentenced for petty and non-violent offences and could be released through probation, home monitoring or amnesties. Judges could also pilot the introduction of...
Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...research was about the nitty-gritty of the books’ design: is there a difference between personalised books that use a child’s name versus those that use their photo? Does it matter whether the child makes their own book or if it is produced by their parent or by an unknown publisher? We know that the reading medium influences learning, so is there a difference between...
From a distance
Society, Politics & Law

From a distance

...research. But again I thought: ‘No, these people are not here for the sake of this project that I want to do.’ Then I thought about how I could make this – and then I looked at my daughter and I thought it’s my own child, completely connected and there was nothing more connected to me than my own child to talk about this whole experience. And I thought, maybe I...
Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context
Society, Politics & Law

Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context

...Research Guide 2’ Glasgow and its surrounding environs might have been an important magnet drawing in people from far and wide, but like other growing cities across Britain at the time, it was ill-equipped to provide adequate shelter or to feed this rapidly growing population. The consequences of this continued to shape housing in the city throughout the twentieth...
How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death
Health, Sports & Psychology

How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death

...research about end-of-life care in England over the last 10 years has indicated that this is both impossible and also undesirable, especially if people think their deaths should reflect a notion of their individuality. But there are certain cultural scripts for how we societally evaluate some deaths as being relatively good, and these can vary between cultures. And...
The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...Research Institute. "The equipment" is an aluminium contraption about two and a half metres high, of tripod shape with a horizontal arm that can drop a sensor from various heights. We are off to Chesil Beach, on the coast of Dorset. Why are two planetary scientists going to the Dorset coast? Obviously, because Chesil Beach is like the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest...