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Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture
Languages

Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture

...university, and so when I did French, the thing I really loved was the studying of French literature; but also the spoken word. I got a great deal out of my year abroad in France, I really loved it, and I became really a good speaker, but I was not very good at writing French, and that’s partly laziness, but I also sometimes wonder, is it because I have oral Bengali?...
What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...universal obligations include the worth of individual freedom (protected through the universal application of human rights) and the worth of equality (protected through institutions of global justice). The ideal character of this liberal cosmopolitanism offered a rather abstract, and in some respects naïve, understanding of the global structure of society. It lost track...
Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues
Society, Politics & Law

Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues

...University environment researchers that have been working with a rare and precious resource. Our Earth in Vision project has allowed us to dive into an archive collection of a hundred environmental programmes from across fifty years of the BBC’s broadcasting about environmental issues. In this two part podcast I invite you to join me on my own journey through the...
Citizen science and the data avalanche
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and the data avalanche

...University, we have played and are playing leading roles in many large international research teams, and many of these teams are using both AI and citizen science to make new discoveries in their giant data sets. For example, ASTERICS was an EU-funded consortium dedicated to joining together some of the world's biggest forthcoming astronomy and astroparticle physics...
Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...University Comte, A. (1853) The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (trans. Harriet Martineau; London, Chapman 1853), Vol. I Gibbons, M. 1994 The New Production of Knowledge: The dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Holley, K., 2009, Understanding Interdisciplinary Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education, San...
A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws
History & The Arts

A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws

...University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York. Returning to England in 1960, he became art director for Gordon Fraser greetings cards and from the early 1970s an active and respected figure in the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. Sylvia Plath’s neighbour Thomas lived for a time in the flat below the American poet Sylvia Plath and her two children in...
Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...University and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, plans to explore some of these questions. This two-year study will be working with Action for Children, a national voluntary organisation, to examine the relationships between male and female professionals and teenage boys in contact with welfare services. Underlying this research project is a concern that...
Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two
Society, Politics & Law

Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two

...University environment researchers investigating an archive collection of environmental programmes from across fifty years of the BBC’s broadcasting on environmental issues. In this two part podcast, join Joe on a journey through the archive as he explores how programmes have changed and how broadcasting has shaped how we think about environmental issues today. Visit...