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We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education
Education & Development

We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education

...project, it may be possible to explore this further. The preliminary findings of this survey highlight that parents value choice and personalisation of learning more highly than replicating their own educational experiences. Yet the ways in which parents/guardians’ own educational journeys impact how home education is ‘done’ within their family is a relatively...
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Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate
Society, Politics & Law

Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate

...project explores the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspectives of creative asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants in the UK and around the world. [Refugee cartoon, society matters] While the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean seems calmer than this time last year, the policy and political crisis it’s created in Europe remains largely unresolved – and...
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To the Moon and beyond
Science, Maths & Technology

To the Moon and beyond

...projects. Over the past 50 years, the Apollo lunar samples have been studied in laboratories around the world using modern analytical techniques. From these studies, it emerged that lunar geology could be described in terms of two major rocks types: the anorthosites (named after rocks rich in a calcium-rich mineral called anorthite) that constitute the lighter areas...
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Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...project – particularly those which propose the demolition of an existing building - should be required to calculate embodied as well as operational carbon and should be approved only if newbuild is really found to be the lowest carbon solution. Finally, where a new building is essential, design and materials should be selected from the start to have the lowest...
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The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...project to collect so-called “untranslatable” words that pertain to well-being, a work-in-progress which currently features nearly 1,000 words. Such words can reveal phenomena which have been overlooked or under-appreciated in one’s own culture, as I explore in two forthcoming books (a general interest exploration of key words, and an academic analysis of the...
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What can emoji teach us about human civilization?
Languages

What can emoji teach us about human civilization?

...project, it is in fact possible, just about, to trace the development of this gesture all the way back to hieroglyphics themselves. Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the original TV series, writes in his autobiography about how he modelled the Vulcan salute on a blessing used by Jewish priests. This consists of using the hands to imitate the Hebrew letter Shin ש –...
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A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
Education & Development

A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience

...project is aimed at investigating Intersectionality in Hate Speech Detection with a focus on ‘Misogynoir’ - a unique form of misogyny experienced by Black women with the intersection of sexism and racism. His study explores how misogynoir manifests online and how it could be mitigated since existing technologies for hate speech detection do not address this type of...
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The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like
History & The Arts

The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like

...projects, which recorded his own fascinating childhood memories and action packed wartime experiences. The stories of his warm family, his rustic summer holidays in Norway, and his chocolate testing, reveal how happy a child Dahl was – though he grew up without a father, who died when he was only four. Dark chapter But from Patricia Neal, the American actress who was...
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