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Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

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Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...sources of her poverty in a town whose main economic base has collapsed. It challenges social priorities when financial self-sufficiency and parental responsibility are in conflict. And it opens debate about whether the purpose of workfare is to save the state money, to reduce labour costs, to train an unskilled workforce or to discipline a population. Cutting across all...
Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

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Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

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Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...Open University course W250 Evidence law...This free course gives an overview of the law of expert evidence, including practice and procedure, the duties and liabilities of experts, the question of how non-experts can adjudicate between the views of experts, and the increasing mathematisation of scientific evidence. The various issues are finally brought together in a...
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...sources of investment. They bring new money for Africa. They create the demand for African goods. So one of the things we've seen, for example, in those countries which do export raw materials is that the prices of those materials have gone up because of the demand from China. So this means theoretically more revenue for those countries. So that's kind of a good thing....
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...sources of knowledge. Collective autoethnography (CoAE) takes this further. It is ‘a participatory and democratic research methodology distinct from other autoethnographic methodologies in its emphasis on co-constructing narratives’ (Karalis Noel, Minematsu and Bosca, 2023, p. 1). Owing to its focus on shared meaning-making and mutual respect, CoAE is particularly...
A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...open to us, but one by one the doors were closed in our faces. In my opinion, what happened was the way of the judicial system making a clear statement, to make clear to Black people that in this country, that before the law, their lives were worth nothing”. The historicity of the stereotype of the Strong Black Mother – one who endures, one who does not feel pain or...