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Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...changing behaviour. There is no evidence it works under any circumstances but much evidence that punishment (especially severe punishment) encourages violent or otherwise undesirable behaviour. Thus, the idea that the particular punishment that prisons deliver will transform people and encourage (or force) them to lead better lives upon release is fundamentally flawed. In...
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Article 12 mins
Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...Chang, A. M., Aeschbach, D., Duffy, J. F., & Czeisler, C. A. (2015). Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(4), 1232-1237. Cheever, N. A., Rosen, L. D., Carrier, L. M., & Chavez, A. (2014). Out of sight is not out of mind: The impact of restricting...
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Article 10 mins
Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...changing world, lies behind the notion of ‘Fortress Europe’ – an outside closed off from external threats and an inside of border-free travel and movement. Or, at least that was the case, until the fences and walls started to go up on the inside of Europe. The future of Europe’s passport-free, Schengen zone is in doubt now that a number of its member states, one...
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Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...change in both settings, rather than as an intruder in one and imposter in the other. Getting to know a setting can be achieved in many ways including starting with desk-based research, advice from other researchers and community members, even before entering the research site. This requires a commitment by the research team to ‘recognise the ‘process as product’,...
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Article 30 mins
A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...Changed a Nation’ (2018), Black teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered at a bus stop in Eltham, south-east London in an unprovoked, racially motivated attack by five teenage white males. Only two of the white perpetrators were convicted of Stephen’s murder over twenty years later using DNA evidence. Much has been written about Stephen’s murder, and indeed by many...
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Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...change is forced in particular directions, perhaps by the 'needs of animals'. If, as a student of evolution, you use such language, others might conclude that you believe in 'directed evolution'. As you'll appreciate when we discuss in more detail how evolution is driven by natural selection operating on random variation, this concept is exactly contrary to how evolution...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...change - The principal function of emojis, though, is as a means of communication. And it’s in this context that laments such as the one in the New York Post are framed. Almost identical sentiments could be found in several other publications in the middle of the decade. For example, an article cited in the Huffington Post in 2016 complained that ‘after 5,000 years of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...change their approach in light of how a conflict develops. Take home: although there is such a thing as ‘creative conflict’, a little bit of the ‘wrong’ kind of conflict can be devastating, both to individual wellbeing and team effectiveness. To maintain or support the re-establishing of trust within the team, managers need to interrogate the background to...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs