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Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children

...history – the position generally taken by young people - or whether purchasing the products meant somehow endorsing the values of 'the sex industry' to which the brand was inextricably linked. And even if it were the latter, should one explain this to children? - As one mother argued, 'you don't want to force them to think about things that they're innocently thinking...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...family has been a key social institution across human history, and transition stages, when new family members are born or when family members die or existing family members age and change roles, are common to all societies. The marking of transition stages are vastly diverse in nature, but naming ceremonies of babies have occurred right around the world over many...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...familial violence; can barely read or write and have been expelled or truanted from school; were unemployed or on benefits before imprisonment, and have multiple and often serious mental health problems. [On Sept. 8, 2015, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, USA] The first and most significant radical alternative to prison is to introduce social policies that are directed at...
Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge

...Family in Urban Senegal on the methodological complexities of producing ‘emotionally sensed knowledge’, while the post on 3 March by our co-investigator Jane McCarthy explored What We Don’t Know in Cross-Cultural Research. Given our focus on understanding the material and emotional significance of the death of a relative, we sought to engage in an approach of...
Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley, Fiona Leverick, James Chalmers
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley, Fiona Leverick, James Chalmers

What is the ideal jury size? How can courtrooms eliminate harmful myths? Lee Curley, Fiona Leverick and James Chalmers discuss the history and findings of one of the most exciting jury research projects of recent years...Podcast transcript
Exodus: The videos
Society, Politics & Law

Exodus: The videos

...family have made the journey from Syria and arrived in Turkey. Should they take the risk and cross the Greece? The crossing What is it really like, bobbing across the Mediterranean in the hope of a better life? Hassan and his fellow refugees put their lives in peril on the sea. Looking for the smugglers Ahmed is in Calais - but having crossed mainland Europe, he needs...
Andante: beginners' Italian
Languages

Andante: beginners' Italian

...food and drinks. Buying food at a market Listen to short exchanges at a fruit market and a deli. Booking into a hotel Practise the sound of the letter ‘r’ booking into a hotel. Talking about recent holidays Learn how to use the present perfect tense for describing the past. Talking about families Learn how to use the possessive adjectives for talking about families....
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...history, community and organisation matter, but also less pre-determined because these specifics are highly changeable. It can be difficult to think in scales of global economic tides and social values, but the individual, workplace, family or locality is easier to apprehend and to alter. A political aspect of open methodologies is that they approach methods not in terms...