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How can digital books support children’s learning?
Education & Development

How can digital books support children’s learning?

...works in the classrooms and what creates enjoyable reading at home. Network-based efforts such as the one supported by the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab are important resources for facilitating the cross-sectoral dialogue necessary here. [Mum with kids using a laptop together] Upholding the principles of equality and diversity Confident and successful child readers thrive...
I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem
Society, Politics & Law

I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem

...likely to reach. Those who favoured the prosecution were more likely to favour a guilty verdict and those who favoured the defence were more likely to reach an acquittal verdict. Other researchers have done similar work using rape-myth scales. If jurors were selected based on validated measures, it would help to filter negative and problematic beliefs out of the system....
Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted
Society, Politics & Law

Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted

...working group” to review whether it would move some of its operations back to Germany if the UK exits the EU. Other companies are very likely to follow suit; managing potential risks like this is a simple priority for major businesses. What both campaigns share is the focus on the theme of EU migration. This makes sense because EU migration relates to free movement of...
We shouldn’t judge Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by its cover
History & The Arts

We shouldn’t judge Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by its cover

...work is too violent, sexist and even racist (consider Wonka’s slurs about his highly racialised workforce) for modern children. Penguin’s cover was definitely provocative – but if it gets a generation of adults to re-read the book it will be an effective one. Leafing through it again, I found many interesting themes: the ghettoisation of Charlie’s family,...
Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London

...Working with FM 101 activists required from me a different sensibility whereby knowledge was understood not as neat, pre-fabricated packets that could be sent from head to head through language, but rather as something messy that needed co-assembling through the process of conversation. For FM 101 there were no isolated individuals to send or receive messages, only the...
Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?

...work in them. ‘Chemical comforts’ Drug taking in prison should be considered against two of the most painful harms of imprisonment: the conscious experience of time and the loss of personal autonomy. It is well documented that prison life is both highly regulated and filled with emptiness. Drugs distort time and prisons are all about the wasting and loss of time. Many...
COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...stray cats and dogs. EXPLORE FURTHER: If you would like to explore our multimedia Covid Chronicles, please visit our website which is in development but exhibits our work nicely - visuals, audio and video materials about life under lockdown - https://cov19chronicles.com [Graffiti of eyes on a wall in Lesvos, Greece] Click on the banner to view other Refugee Week materials...
Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?

...work and settle. In November 1964 Ian Smith’s government of Rhodesia asked its mainly white electorate if they wanted independence, rather than accept the black majority rule that Britain demanded. More than 90 per cent did, and Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence on Remembrance Day 1965. Racial tensions were rising in South Africa too, and Commonwealth...