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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...picture. Higher Education does. Not engaging with the problem of unconscious bias in mainstream education is devastating for both young people and the higher education sector as HE access is not even considered by these excluded cohorts. Universities lead the way in education. Could there be a way that they can use their research to lead the way in calling for change?...
COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...research and development in renewable energy. But even if the UAE was to achieve net zero by some measure domestically, continuing to export oil internationally means it will be burned somewhere, and so the climate crisis will continue to grow. Self-interest Is disappointment a foregone conclusion in Dubai? Already one of the hottest places in the world, parts of the...
Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade
History & The Arts

Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade

...centre of the debate is the economic transformation of Britain. During the eighteenth century, Britain became the first country in the world to “industrialise”, in terms of an unprecedented economic shift towards manufacturing and commerce, and the progress of technology. These were also years of large British involvement in the slave trade. So were these two trends...
After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
History & The Arts

After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution

...centre of Cairo against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak, who was forced to relinquish power. The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 was one of the largest components of the wider ‘Arab Spring’, which toppled regimes across the Middle East and North Africa. Modern Egypt is no stranger to revolutions. In 1952, a secret group in the Egyptian Army called the Free Officers...
Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...research done in both Ireland and France which showed violence against sex workers had actually increased since the introduction of the Nordic Model, and that it had a negative impact both on the control they had over their job and their lives in general. Matilda has experience with the Nordic Model as it is the same system in place in her city of Portland, Oregon. She...
Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...research suggests that high numbers of professional pilots may be severely fatigued and still flying (Venus, 2020). As we can see from the case studies, there can be complex, personal, professional, and commercial reasons pressuring pilots to fly while feeling fatigued. What is Fatigue? Fatigue is both mental and physical which can be brought on by performing a demanding...
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...children and their futures? We could consider these steps: Integrating aging into all aspects of development, Involving the elderly more in major policy decisions, Fundamental reforms in existing pension systems, Making health care affordable to all And we can do this not just because we care for them, because we also care for those to come. Read more about aging in the...
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...centre of gravity forwards out the blocks as quickly as we possibly can. From a biomechanics point of view, we need pieces of kit that will help us slow down that technique so we can understand what is happening at every foot contact. We'll use things like three-dimensional motion capture, to help us monitor the movements of the arms and the legs. And we'll also use...