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Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...Contained’: Contemporary Fiction and the Science of Sleep.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 56, no. 1, Spring 2015, pp. 56-80. It can be found on Project Muse [requires an appropriate account] This article was originally published in the Journal of Literature And Science under a CC-BY-SA-NC-ND licence. You can read the aritcle, with full footnotes, at the JLS website....
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...projects, where each family has a ‘family worker’, could follow a similar model. Some people embroiled within the penal law would undoubtedly benefit from therapeutic interventions and those people who have mental health problem, substance usage problems or require other forms of medical interventions could be offered effective voluntary non-custodial treatments and...
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Solving the care crisis with public investment
Society, Politics & Law

Solving the care crisis with public investment

...projects for organisations including the ILO (International Labour Organization) and FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies), and co-chair for policy on the Women’s Budget Group. In this video he explores the benefits that may come from a care-led recovery. These include: • employment generation • reduction of the gender employment gap • contribution to...
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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

...Project, Boylan recalled that Thomas and another man were arrested for allegedly looking at each other in a local public lavatory. Thomas was ill-advised by his lawyers to plead guilty to “corrupting a young man”. But he was given a glowing character reference by Kenneth Clark, director of the National Gallery, who had expected Thomas to succeed him. But it was to no...
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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...project on reader engagement with teachers and librarians in Norway; Dr Levy (University of Sheffield) who is currently examining the barriers to shared reading in ‘hard to reach’ families; Dr Jones (University of Nottingham) who is researching inner-city adult reading groups and Dr Kucirkova (Open University) who will be sharing the conceptual work on reading for...
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Twin Town and Welsh cinema in the late 1990s
History & The Arts

Twin Town and Welsh cinema in the late 1990s

...Projecting Wales’, Planet 126, December–January. Perrins, D. (2000) ‘This town ain’t big enough for the both of us’ in Blandford, S. (ed.) Wales on Screen, Bridgend, Seren. Evans, M (2002) 'Looking Forward, Looking Back' in Thomas, E. Selected Work, ’95 – ’98, Cardigan, Parthian. French, P. (1999) ‘Something for the weekend’, The Observer, 6 June....
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship

...project – it seems that businesses are increasingly relying on sponsorship to sell their brand. This weeks episode of the Bottom Line discusses the opportunities and dangers involved with this burgeoning global sponsorship market. Given its growing importance, sponsorship can do more than just profit companies but also help to influence positive social change. A primary...
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How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?
Digital & Computing

How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?

...project. Snapchat, primarily a messaging app, has more than 150 million daily active usersand is gaining popularity in India. A YouTube video uploaded by Yellowbulbs.comshares the result of a survey done in 2016 amongst 100 students from New Delhi, which describes the use of Snapchat among India's millennials: Transcript Omar harnesses this popularity to address a huge...
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