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Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?
Nature & Environment

Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?

...projects and lack of focus on green or sustainable approaches in the housing, hospital and education spending plans. Realistically the public expenditure focus would need to go much further to match what many would expect a Green New Deal to look like. This would have a low-carbon economy as central to all the proposals and not just some. So, whilst there are some...
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Where do we get the help that really counts?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Where do we get the help that really counts?

...project, a general practitioner, an employer, a family member as well as care workers from community-based organisations. Informal sources of support are used by a wide range of people in distress whether or not they are recognised as having a mental health problem. It has long been known that there are many more people experiencing mental distress than those who seek or...
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A brief history of Science
History & The Arts

A brief history of Science

...Einstein) wireless telegraphy invented 50-60 first fully-electronic computer 40-50 structure of DNA (Watson and Crick); first human in Earth orbit (Gagarin) 30-40 first human on the moon (Armstrong) computers with silicon chips 0-20 Human Genome Mapping Project; multiple organ transplants lap-top computers; communications networking; the Internet; artificial intelligence...
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Why has the welfare cap become so complex?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has the welfare cap become so complex?

...projected and these numbers have fallen quite rapidly to around 23,000 capped households in February 2015, in part because people have indeed moved into in-work benefits and in part because individual circumstances change. In that context the government has been able to claim success – although there are concerns about the quality of the work those affected have found....
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The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...project. His basic interpretation was that the penetrometer, after at first producing a brief high force signature had pushed into a soft surface. From his work in the laboratory, it seemed that the material on Titan was probably granular or grainy. Could it be Titan's version of sand or gravel, produced by the continued action of flowing liquid over the underlying...
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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

...project, Gendering Constitutional Conversations. Northern Ireland conversations were funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and conversations in the Republic were funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs. Funding has been crucial. It has enabled women from different parts of the island to have their say and listen to each other. Dr. Joanna McMinn, well-known...
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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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