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How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?
Society, Politics & Law

How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?

...work out which witness is telling the truth. These judgments are called credibility judgments. They often arise in trials for sexual offences, where the defendant and the complainant agree that sexual intercourse took place, but the defendant claims it was consensual and the complainant asserts that they did not consent. Very little is known about how jurors make...
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Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...work to make others aware and engage in democratic processes, such as elections to vote for people and policies that you agree with. Consider changing your lifestyle and see if you can be more environmentally friendly (for example, think about how you use energy, where you get your food, or how you recycle waste). Small changes in your daily lifestyle can have a big...
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Is America better than this?
Society, Politics & Law

Is America better than this?

...work of Stacey Abrams and others in Georgia took almost a decade to get to this point. Kamala Harris will perhaps overtake Dick Cheney as the most powerful Vice President in history. But there’s no getting away from the reality that America is not better. It has never come to terms with its past. It is unlikely that the incoming Congress and President will be able to...
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Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking
Education & Development

Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking

...work together to structure people's life chances. These different forms of oppressions do not operate independently, rather they are inter-related so that racism is not independent of capitalism, patriarchy is not independent of bias against people with disabilities, and so forth. Recently, design activist and theorist Sasha Constanza-Chock has argued that designers must...
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'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...inequality in English secondary schools: A critical review of the research literature between 1980 and 2005’, Review of Educational Research, 77(2), pp. 147–185. Strand, S. (2014) ‘Ethnicity, gender, social class and achievement gaps at age 16: Intersectionality and “getting it” for the white working class’, Oxford Review of Education, 40(2), pp. 223–245....
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Article 10 mins
When Edward met Bertha: Mental Health, Colonialism, Race and Patriarchy in Jane Eyre
History & The Arts

When Edward met Bertha: Mental Health, Colonialism, Race and Patriarchy in Jane Eyre

...works at home, when you can go abroad as a missionary and impose your religion and culture on people unable to defend themselves? Before he leaves for the colonies, to subjugate as many indigenous people as he can, he exhorts Jane to join him, and claims her ‘for God’. But Jane sees through his religious zeal, his partriachial assumptions and his need to dominate...
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Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?

...worked hard to compete with my brother’s success and gain the praise of my parents and teachers. In a newspaper interview Rebecca Adlington’s mother attributed Rebecca’s sporting success to: ‘a matter of the little sister being determined not to be outdone by her big sisters … Because of that early rivalry, she has always had a competitive streak.’ It appears...
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Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...work plantations following the abolition of slavery. While many of these so-called ‘Coolie’ labourers were returned to China, a few stayed on and established the first permanent settlements of Chinese people in Africa. In the mid-twentieth century Maoist China reached out to Africa as part of its geopolitical strategy of forging key alliances with ‘socialist’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs