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Why would you want your own web domain?
Digital & Computing

Why would you want your own web domain?

...social media lets us share words, pictures and videos, online office suites allow us to publish documents and spreadsheets, code repositories allow us to share code, sites like Shinyapps.io allow you to publish specific sorts of applications, and so on. So where do initiatives like a domain of one’s own come in, which provide members of a university (originally), staff...
Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?
History & The Arts

Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?

...social media. Hands up who went to a newspaper site and stuck with it throughout the day when news of David Bowie’s death broke. No one, right? Everyone was on Twitter and Facebook where the news first emerged. In an era when even the web is starting to feel more like a reference library than a breaking news platform, what is newsprint bringing to the table? David Bowie...
An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers
Society, Politics & Law

An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers

...social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act, allowed local authorities to enforce on-the-spot fines for certain activities. Predictably, local authorities are applying these new powers to target homeless people by sanctioning what they do in public spaces: street drinking, begging, camping in parks, defecating and urinating and in some cases even sleeping. Not only do PSPOs...
I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem
Society, Politics & Law

I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem

...social creatures who use stories to make sense of our everyday lives after all. The problem is, what we do when we discover that sometimes, jurors use problematic beliefs to shape their stories. Research has shown that many different types of biases influence juror decision making, including but not limited to racial biases and rape myths. Rape myths are false beliefs...
20 things you might not know about Belfast
History & The Arts

20 things you might not know about Belfast

...Social distancing: tricky. 19. Belfast's "Big Fish" sculpture has roots in old myths There are plenty of names for the big blue fish on Donegall Quay. One of them refers to the Salmon of Knowledge. The animal features in Irish mythology, and is said to possess all the knowledge of the universe. 20. The astrophysicist who discovered pulsars was born here Dame Jocelyn Bell...
COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...social distancing the usual physical intimacies of hugging were not possible. This Eid Mubarak digital card, designed by Thanu, herself a Sinhalese Buddhist, offers warm greetings and best wishes to her Muslim friends with wry humour. She coveys a sense of solidarity and loss of a sense of community. Thanu stresses the vital importance of simple, every day acts of...
Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?

...social development – definitively drew to a close in the late 1960s. Decolonisation was by then rampant. In 1967 Britain left Aden ignominiously, and announced a timetable for withdrawal of all forces from ‘East of Suez’. [Carry On Up The Khyber Williams] The Khasi of Kalabar (played by Kenneth Williams) and Bungdit Din (played by Bernard Bresslaw); from Carry On Up...
Danielle Martin
Education & Development

Danielle Martin

...social obligations was something I found too overwhelming.’ She’s a busy mum (and soon to be even busier with another child due) and therefore enjoys ‘the independent and flexible learning’ on offer as ‘I need to be able to study around my family commitments.’ But it wasn’t simply a case of finding The Open University and embarking on a degree once more,...