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‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...researched or ‘hidden’. While we may seek to take some comfort from assumptions that discussions of poverty and inequality should start from questions of social justice, this contrasts with long-standing ideas that the poor are a ‘problem’, at times a ‘dangerous’ population. Such populations are also often associated with particular places; for instance, with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...research or evidence. A fact is something that everyone knows is true – there is no argument. On the other hand, an opinion is a viewpoint that other people might not share; they might argue about it. The next activity helps you to discriminate between facts and opinions in Text 3. Activity 4 Part 1 Select the answer for Task 1 here Read the following statements. Which...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...Research Institute, 2010, p. 47)...Estimating the cost of equity: 1.3.1 Estimating the future equity risk premium - There are three ways to estimate the future equity risk premium: using historical data and assuming that the past equity risk premium is a good indicator of the future equity risk premium asking experts for their opinion of the future equity risk premium...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...research on the financial behaviour and decision making of both professionals, such as investment bank traders, and the rest of us in the everyday world. Organisational behaviour, at least as I practise it, draws on insights from psychology, sociology, and economics, and sometimes from wider disciplines, such as philosophy and history, to understand the behaviour of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...researchers like Conti, Cross, Raymond and Cerrudo, it is possible to begin to get a sense of the increasingly complex landscape of smart city cyber security. The national security concerns around the broader IoT – as opposed to the narrower world of smart cities – are potentially even more profound. In his recent testimony on the “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the...
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Article 10 mins
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...researched the Chinese reaction to Hillary Clinton: A reader comment on a Peng Pai News report on the investigation into Clinton’s use of private email server reads, perhaps characteristically: “She is so old. Why can’t she go home and help raise children?” It is widely believed in China that women over 55 (the legal retirement age for women there) should stay...
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Article 5 mins
Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...Research Journal surveyed 63 studies on the effects of bilingualism. It found that being able to speak multiple languages correlates with increased working memory, better problem solving skills a greater ability to pay attention. It’s not just a boon for people who speak a language other than English at home. Briseño says more non-native speakers of Spanish are taking...
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Article 5 mins
Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes
Society, Politics & Law

Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes

...research into the routes refugees take and the obstacles they face, and even talked to some of the people who facilitate their journey. Although we do use some documentary imagery and footage, we knew that we didn’t want to try to convey the harrowing nature of a refugee’s journey in a ‘game’ – it would have been impossible to try to, and we didn’t want to...
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Article 10 mins