Health, Sports & Psychology
One minute methods - meta analysis
Discover how meta-analyses can help researchers see the bigger picture that no one study alone can show...Transcript.
Health, Sports & Psychology
The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?
...Research by Hill and Barton (2005) investigated the link between uniform colour and match outcome in a number of different combat sports (boxing, tae kwon do, Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling) at the 2004 Olympics, where competitors were randomly assigned either a blue or red uniform. Interestingly their findings revealed that that for all sports there was a...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Can rugby be made safer - and still be rugby?
...researchers counted an average of nearly 500 collisions in a game: 26 scrums, 200 rucks and mauls, and 270 tackles. In rugby league, the scrums are fewer and less contested, and rucks and mauls non-existent. Tackles, while less frequent, are no less fierce. In 2011, Sydney researchers recorded on average, 111 tackles per game among professional players. Inadvertent...
Society, Politics & Law
Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?
...researching citizenship. Although methods days schools are a regular occurrence in the Faculty, this was the first time a day school was organised to explore the methodological issues of a field as specific as citizenship studies. This blog will review the day, whilst considering the contemporary surge of interest in citizenship and the methods with which it is studied....
Society, Politics & Law
People make terrible eyewitnesses – but it turns out there’s an exception
...research, it might enable judges and juries to differentiate eyewitnesses who are likely to be right from the rest of us. The eyewitness problem It’s not possible to put a number on how unreliable eyewitnesses are, but they certainly get things wrong. Unreliable testimonies have been cited as the biggest contributor to miscarriages of justice, causing three-quarters of...
Money & Business
SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
...researching these complex, varied and often surprising organisations for several decades, during which the business landscape has gone through a series of radical transformations: the privatisations, liberalisation and industrial restructuring of the 1980s; the dot.com boom around the turn of the twenty-first century; the financial crisis of the 2010s; increasingly...
Society, Politics & Law
Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy
...Research started in earnest from 2005, when Karl MacDorman and Takashi Minato translated Mori’s original paper into English. Interest in the area has since expanded quickly: so far, 510 academic papers reference the effect in 2015, compared to just 35 in 2004. Although the effect is easy to describe, and feels intuitively “right” when looking at some examples of...
History & The Arts
The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
...research by John Henderson overturns this view. He reveals what it was like to be an 'Italian Patient' and shows that there are remarkable similarities to health care provisions today. Katherine Park has shown that at the same time the practice of autopsy was in full swing with the sanction of the Church. In the late medieval period hospitals were built in Florence as...