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Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...social issues of our time. The effects of war, poverty and climate change have led millions of people across the world to flee their homes, in search of a safer, better life elsewhere: 65.6 million people are displaced from home today (UNHCR). Developing countries in fact host 80% of the world’s refugees. Political debate and media coverage, however, focus...
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Do animals have sex for fun?
Nature & Environment

Do animals have sex for fun?

...work of Masters and Johnson dating from 1966. They focused sexual pleasure on orgasm by proposing a four-stage biomedical framework of excitement, plateau, orgasm and resolution. Despite much criticism, it entered intellectual and public consciousnesses as a description of “normal” sex, involving genitals and aimed at producing orgasms. But while this may describe sex...
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30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
Money & Business

30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’

...working, operating as a virtual team courtesy of web-based technologies. As Mike explained: “The lease was expiring on our Peterborough office in 2012 and we started to consider alternative locations. Then we realised we didn’t need an office at all!” Mike and his team supplement their online interactions by occasional phone calls and a meeting with the team twice a...
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The nature of history
Education & Development

The nature of history

...social sciences and the various forms of science. There are, I would agree, some pitfalls. Nostalgia can sometimes stop us looking at the present and prevent us thinking about the future. (Nostalgia, suggests the graffiti, is not what it used to be.) History can become a tool of propaganda; the first thing that most dictators do when coming to power is to reach for the...
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Constitutional Conversations: what Good Friday Agreement was for women
Society, Politics & Law

Constitutional Conversations: what Good Friday Agreement was for women

...working class districts who took part in the grassroots conversations, live in areas where too many children remain in poverty; too many women are not safe in their own homes and where the strains and stresses of inadequate housing, poor education and inaccessible health care are faced by under-resourced women’s groups. These experiences are shared by women in loyalist...
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Why books are a lifeline for prisoners
Society, Politics & Law

Why books are a lifeline for prisoners

...working on their own stories. One read a poem he had written about his family, accompanied by another inmate, finger-picking on a guitar. It was an eye-opener. In my experience, well-meaning projects for prisons can sometimes have a whiff of do-goodery about them, but the book share was clearly having obvious and immediate effects. For a start, it was strengthening...
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Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse
Society, Politics & Law

Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse

...working- and lower middle-class Victorians. Given the limited time available for leisure, the importance of the Sunday newspaper as a form of entertainment becomes clear. Violent Victorians today Some of this may be familiar to you. Discrete pieces – such as execution broadsides, or penny bloods – are occasionally brought out to titillate 21st century audiences, to...
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Derry Air: the new local history
Society, Politics & Law

Derry Air: the new local history

...social science circles. It has been made particularly popular by the concept and practice of so-called ‘reflexive anthropology’: taking seriously, and reporting on the researcher’s own experience (‘experience’ being another valid concept today), a logical extension of the long-established anthropological ‘participant observation’. So taking serious account...
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