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What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?

...communities, such as دیکھ بھال کرنے والے OR نگہداشت کرنے والے. There are over 215,000 young people in England (aged 18–24 years) providing unpaid care in England (ONS, 2023). Many of these young people are caring for over 20 hours per week (ONS, 2023). Their caring roles are often not recognised by family members – especially in South...
Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music

...communication courses. Folk music is music that is rarely written for profit, music that has endured, often passed down by oral tradition, investing a sense of identity in artist and listener alike. Folk music has imitation at its core. Its narratives and characters are usually already known to listeners, and they often refer to real-life people and events. The content is...
Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO
Education & Development

Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO

...communication, and policy awareness. Whether they are collaborating on sustainability projects, debating the ethics of AI, or simulating international negotiations on climate or digital rights, students practise the competencies that underpin both science and technology diplomacy. This article explores why science and technology diplomacy matter for all citizens, and why...
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...communication, time management, organisation, collaboration, team work, critical thinking. Soft skills influence how you do your work, and your upside in value because, to me, if you have really high soft skills, that can overcome a lack of hard skills. So let me spell it out for you, if you don’t have a tonne of things necessary for a specific job, but your soft skills...
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...communication infrastructure is depoliticized, or delegitimized under criminal conspiracy acts. Instead you claim that contemporary forms of piracy involve both contestations of ownership, new forms of use and an alternative politics of the common. Does this mean you reject the above framing of piracy as apolitical? Under what conditions may pirate practices involve...
Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...community multiplied and diversified. “The first decade of the 21st century witnessed a huge diversification in terms of assumed sexual and gender preferences and identities – especially once otherkin groups migrated to the blog-hosting site, Tumbr,” says Feijó. In his essay, Feijó highlights the contrast between communities which embrace the experiences of...
The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...community remains in recovery mode...Anybody who was in northern Pakistan on October 8 2005 will never forget where they were and what they were doing the moment the world started to shake. I was standing in my garden in Islamabad, as the ground seemed to sway one way and the house lurched the other. Instantly we knew that this was a massive earthquake – but just how...
Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...communicate and signal kinship or opposition - football fan culture [David Hockney's banner to support smokers rights, reading 'The Unrepentant Smokers'] David Hockney's banner supporting smokers' rights Banners of all types are often created or adapted to suit the needs of a particular occasion and may be fairly simple, especially if their main purpose is to display a...