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The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer

...think you’d be better off going back to where you come from and planting bananas. Benjamin Zephaniah Wow! Prof Geoff Palmer And I looked at him, I said yes, as far as I know there are no bananas in Highbury. So of course I didn’t get it; however I saw the advert for a PhD opportunity in Edinburgh, and I applied and I came up to this city. My link with this industry...
What makes a great Christmas number one?
History & The Arts

What makes a great Christmas number one?

...also be interested in finding out the most played Christmas songs in 2014 on TV, radio, online, bars, gyms (essentially anwhere that plays music). Recently, Brett Domino has experimented with putting all the key features of a Christmas hit into one song – see what you think! What's your favourite Christmas number one and why? Have your say in the comments section below....
Henry Tudor: a Welsh hero…?
History & The Arts

Henry Tudor: a Welsh hero…?

...thinking of Wales as part of a greater British whole. But he sits less well with those who, whilst not necessarily advocating political independence, nevertheless view Wales’ historic relationship with England in more ambivalent terms. [The statue of Henry VII is in front of his birthplace, Pembroke Castle.] The statue of Henry VII is in front of his birthplace,...
Mistaken identity? Sharing experiences as a South Asian woman
Education & Development

Mistaken identity? Sharing experiences as a South Asian woman

...think that it is just a matter of confusion, and easily done. However, racially marginalised people experience microaggressions such as these daily and often ‘allow’ them to be laughed off, ignored, and they go unchallenged because of the emotional labour and strength it takes to call it out. This has happened to me more than once. In fact, in the very same week a...
Writing from the heart
Education & Development

Writing from the heart

...beating heart of writing – the exploration of self- and may need to remind ourselves that young writers need rich opportunities (and explicit permission?) to draw on their reservoirs of life experience, sense of place and commitment to and interest in particular issues. As Michael Morpurgo observes ‘We are what we write. I think even more than we are what we read’....
Design and Creativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Creativity

...thinking at IDEO. IDEO: Users The connection between design and the user: the Head of Interaction Design at IDEO talks about their relationship with customers. IDEO: Design Engineering Engineering around the user's needs: how to run productive development meetings and the value of sharing ideas. IDEO: Good design Testing and analysing IDEO designs for a battery pack and a...
A Victorian Christmas: Victoria's Christmas
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Victoria's Christmas

...thinks perhaps he felt that and was angry with himself. Lord Melbourne spoke to me in the afternoon of the different people who he thought might do as Speaker. He spoke to me of the King of Hanover's foolish proceedings; of the Duke of Cambridge and of some particulars of the Disturbances in Canada. I said to Lord Melbourne I hoped he would stay a few days when he came...
Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'
Society, Politics & Law

Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'

...system of immigration detention, which in 2007 became a default for some. Amid the debates about the detention of terror suspects without trial, foreign nationals subject to immigration control measures languished indefinitely in privately run detention centres up and down the UK. They didn’t, and still don’t, have the protections of due process, nor are they being...