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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...
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...
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...researchers are finding a swathe of health benefits from speaking more than one language, including faster stroke recovery and delayed onset of dementia. Could it be that the human brain evolved to be multilingual – that those who speak only one language are not exploiting their full potential? And in a world that is losing languages faster than ever – at the current...
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...
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...
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...
Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...centre of the diagram, there’s a kind of research method involved in the creation of the self-help materials themselves: perhaps more akin to the research conducted by people in the humanities, particularly in creative writing. I’m constantly engaged in a dialogue with people about what they’d find most useful, and what formats would be most accessible to diverse...
Frequently asked questions about COVID-19 relating to cancer
Science, Maths & Technology

Frequently asked questions about COVID-19 relating to cancer

...research teams will be refocused to working on COVID-19 prevention and treatment. However, if someone is in a clinical trial, their healthcare team will continue to support and monitor them. If cancer patients have any concerns or questions about the clinical trial they are enrolled in, they are advised to speak to their healthcare team for further clarification. Will...