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Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...religion, dialect, ethnicity, values – England is unified by a commodity, and this makes sense because London is the most prominent European financial market (but until how long after Brexit?). Language, Taal, Lingua Sara: Uit je verschillende werken blijkt je fascinatie voor taal en vertaling. Waarom denk je dat taal en vertaling belangrijke thema’s zijn? In hoeverre...
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...religion or belief sex sexual orientation. (Equality Act 2010) Each of these protected characteristics identified in the EqA 2010 has related specific legislation that protects individuals having that characteristic from discrimination. The EqA 2010 provides further guidance and explanation concerning each of these protected characteristics. Finally, it provides for the...
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...religion, sexual orientation, national origin, ability/disability) that confer different experiences of advantage/disadvantage, privilege and discrimination. [Stephen Lawrence] A watershed moment in policing in England and Wales occurred with the publication of the MacPherson Report (1999) after the inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The Macpherson Report...
Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe
History & The Arts

Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe

...religion sullied in this way. It is not right. Similarly, as a citizen of the European Union, it is not right to see the vilification of its cornerstone values of peace and living together. I’m fed up of those who do not respect other people’s right to laugh. I’m sick and tired of seeing innocent blood being spilt every day, from Paris to Peshawar. And my stomach is...
Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...religion in its design, undertaking, and reporting. The body of research evidence available to policy makers should reflect the diversity of the population.’ This consideration can only be guaranteed at this stage of the research process if it has been adopted in all the previous phases. Research practices can be unintentionally discriminatory, inaccessible, and...
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...religion in churches of our Italian travel, we were reminded how equally authoritative the Church of England and the Church of Home were, and how little they adjust their ceremonial to the individual, how largely to the collective worshipper. You could come into the Minster of York as into the basilica of St. Mark at Venice for a silent prayer amid the religious...
Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...religion. Social conventions too are challenged. Where well-behaved children were expected to be seen but not heard, Alice insists on having a voice. She asks questions that often show adult behaviour to be irrational, contradictory, and unjust; especially when it comes to the exercise of power and authority as in the trial of the Knave of Hearts. Most radical of all,...
Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...Religion, Philosophy and Ethics (R45), Suzanne Newcombe and Carolyn Price discuss how researchers in Religious Studies and Philosophy investigate immortality...Research into physical immortality is big business. Just try searching Google for the CEO of Apple Computers and biotech firm Genentech founded Calico (est. 2013). It's a company backed by a billion dollars of...