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Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context
Society, Politics & Law

Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context

...centres in the entire UK and, thus, no exception...[clydeside map] Encompassing the years from just before the outbreak of conflict in World War One in 1914, until the period of the great depression that ravaged Clydeside and many other industrial cities and regions across the UK in the inter-war years, the period widely referred to as ‘Red Clydeside’ was one of the...
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Club v Country: The psychology of switching support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Club v Country: The psychology of switching support

...Research has found that group membership can drive hostility and conflict even when there is no history of interaction between the groups and even when the groups are randomly assigned according to meaningless categories. For example, a famous series of studies conducted by Henri Tajfel and colleagues in the 1970s found that teenage boys would favour their in-group over...
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What is the Hawthorne Effect? The one-minute guide
Money & Business

What is the Hawthorne Effect? The one-minute guide

...research on how people behave, it's important to consider the Hawthorne Effect. But why? A really, really quick introduction...[Black background with a halogen light strip positioned diagonally from top left corner to right-hand corner in the middle. Text saying "In the 1920s, workers at the Hawthorne Works in Chicago were observed to be more productive in better-lit...
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Why is the media still fascinated by Brady and Hindley's crimes?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the media still fascinated by Brady and Hindley's crimes?

...children, Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Anne Downey and Edward Evans in the 1960s, in and around Manchester, has died at the age of 79. [The Conversation] Brady and Hindley were arrested in 1965 after her brother-in-law David Smith phoned the police, having witnessed the murder of Evans at their home in Wardle Brook Avenue, Hattersley. They had also...
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Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...research has moved beyond the sleep laboratory, generating a certain fascination with sleep among novelists as well as researchers in the humanities. To do this, Greaney formulates two suggestions: the first focuses on the “ongoing territorial dispute between art and science over the nature of sleep”. This debate revolves around questions such as how to study sleep...
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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...centring politic, less concerned with a replication of its own ‘centres’” (p. 3). However, I remain somewhat undecided about the need to commit to decentring per se, being more concerned with decentring Eurocentrism cum West-centrism cum core-centrism. On my reading of ‘pluriversality’ as an alternative to Eurocentric universality, for example, it might be that...
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Video 15 mins
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...Centre hosts a large range of community services, including education for children in supplementary schools and education in Islam and Arabic for all members of the community. There are also a number of culturally specific charities hosted by the Centre. These include the Somali Development Association (Al Shafie Institute) and the North African Community Association...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The Trojan Defence
Science, Maths & Technology

The Trojan Defence

...research forms the basis for this programme uncovers some of the artefacts examined and techniques to support or refute claims of innocence. Somehow losing your privacy doesn't seem so bad at all... The Trojan Defence How feasible is 'The Trojan Defence', or is it just an convenient excuse for someone trying to dodge guilt The Enemy Within Ian Kennedy takes us further...
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