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The fight for equal pay: Glasgow City Council, 2018
Society, Politics & Law

The fight for equal pay: Glasgow City Council, 2018

...public campaigning of these women ensured they had the support of Glaswegians across the city. Before the two days were finished the council agreed to settle the equal pay claims and to implementing a new JES to address the inequalities going forward. Settlement of equal pay claims This process was not straightforward, with every worker needing to complete paperwork in...
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Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?

...Public services, such as sanitation and roads, have often been limited or not provided in informal settlements due to their virtual invisibility in spatial maps such as google earth. Residents of informal settlements are using remote sensing data to created detailed maps of the areas. One example of this type of mapping is Map Kibera. These maps can aid evidence-based...
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Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...public good into a commodity. Researchers Rich Goulding, Adam Leaver and Jon Silver have been compiling data on new housing developments in Manchester and Salford in order to understand who is involved in the construction of new housing apartments in Greater Manchester and where in the world those companies and financial actors are located. As part of our new Geography...
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Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...public interest over the past decade or so. In 2013, a series of experiments by researchers Daniel Comer Kidd and Emmanuel Castano (2013) were published in the influential Science journal, generating headlines such as ‘Reading Fiction Makes You A Nicer Person’ (Barras, 2013), ‘Now We Have Proof Reading Literary Fiction Makes You A Better Person’ (Schonfeld, 2013),...
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How can we improve teaching about Islam?
Education & Development

How can we improve teaching about Islam?

...public high schools, for example, the “Muslim World,” appears in the 10th chapter. In condensing a thousand years of history – from the seventh to the 17th century – it focuses only on “Arab armies” and the rise of early modern Muslim empires. Such narrow focus misses out on the cultural exchanges during this period. For example, in medieval Spain, the...
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Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...public services, as seen in the infographic in Figure 2 below. Additionally, trees have cultural and social functions, often being at the centre of ceremonies. One fun example is wassailing in Britain. Local trees play a huge part in all of our lives. With 1 in 3 tree species in the world threatened with extinction (Crowley and Justice, 2021), caring for these heroes is...
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Sea level rise in Bangladesh
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Bangladesh

...Paper – Nov 2017 https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/uprooted-by-climate-change-responding-to-the-growing-risk-of-displacement-620357 Accessed 31st January 2020 Shelter Projects http://www.shelterprojects.org/shelterprojects2009/ref/B.1-Bangladesh-2009-Cyclone-Aila.pdf Accessed 29th January 2020 UNDP, 2020 https://www.adaptation-undp.org/explore/bangladesh...
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Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity
History & The Arts

Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity

...public speaking, event planning, how to mentor others, critical thinking, how to be a leader without the need for a title, to be trusted with other people’s money, kindness, generosity, bravery and strength. There was a strong ethos of “all roles are open to all”, so at various times I was a band leader, Sunday school teacher to the over 50s, choir director, an...
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