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STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...courses, whether as stand-alone modules or as part of different UG and PG programmes of study. In 2010 ASTiP launched a specific Postgraduate suite of qualifications for STiP, with now over 1200 students having studied our core STiP modules. The ASTiP group and our PG alumni, drawing on ASTiP-led scholarship and action research initiatives from 2014, took a lead role in...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Stresses and strains
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Stresses and strains

...course, it was owned by local people, and they publicised and promoted it as a very high-strength material bridge. So, the residents had no reason not to doubt that it was not going to be a nice strong bridge, similar, though thinner in design, not the big chunky bridge that existed in some of the areas, but they had complete confidence in it. And, uh, this nice silver...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...course, saucisson brioché is a sausage baked in a loaf of brioche. It can be eaten warm or cold. Originating from the city of Lyon, saucisson brioché is a classic of the Lyonnais regional cuisine. Lyon is sometimes referred to as the gastronomic capital of France. Many famous French chefs originate from that area of the country. Image: Marylise Doctrinal under Creative...
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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...courses Carbon footprint According to the World Meteorology Organisations, the occurrence of extreme climate events has increased by more than a factor of five in the last 50 years. In their 2021 report, they state that the number of reported climate disasters rose from 711 in the 1970s to 3,165 in the decade between 2010 and 2019. It is therefore perhaps not surprising...
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Scottish lecturers take strike action in campaign for fair pay
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish lecturers take strike action in campaign for fair pay

...courses Lecturers took strike action for an annual cost of living pay rise, for fair pay in other words. The strike followed a ballot with 73.3 % voting for strike action and action short of a strike (ASOS), on a 51.9% turnout (thereby achieving the threshold for industrial action under the Conservative UK Government anti-trade union laws) (EIS.org, 2022a). The background...
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NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it
Society, Politics & Law

NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it

...Politically, we are a long way from 1998. Looking back, all is different and small shifts are still occurring 25 years on. [Polling station in Bangor. Photograph for the article discussing what the Good Friday Agreement meant for electoral dynamics.] Find out more To discover what the Good Friday Agreement means in wider context, why not try the courses below?...
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Sacrificial Metals
Science, Maths & Technology

Sacrificial Metals

...course Our Chemical Environment (ST240)...[Coral and fish] According to this table aluminium should react with oxygen more readily than iron, which is easily oxidized in the presence of water and oxygen. How is it then that aluminium can be used for aeroplanes which are in constant contact with water and oxygen? In reality, aluminium does react with oxygen very rapidly...
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Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate
Languages

Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate

...course, the debate about Greece’s possible exit from the Eurozone, or ‘Grexit’; a word which was also first used in 2012. But although the component parts of both these words are directly analogous, the connotations they have are markedly different. Grexit was predominantly used as a warning over Greece’s political future should their economic crisis fail to get...
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