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Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge

...class, experiences of death, areas of academic expertise and research experience. Participants, too, had multiple positionings. We sought to critically reflect on the multiple, diverse and intersectional ways we may be positioned and understood as ‘outsiders’ or ‘insiders’, as ‘strange’ or ‘familiar’, not only to participants but also to one another. To do...
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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...team’s research has an explicit focus on how ethnicity, gender and social class intersect in producing educational disadvantage. In examining teachers’ perceptions and practices as well as children’s own experiences of reading pedagogy, the team hope to offer more nuanced understandings of disengagement and suggest possible ways forward with long term goals in mind....
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Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study

...class and social privilege. How ‘ordinary’ dying could be problematic Recognising this, we are now also in a better position to reflect on the implications of claiming that the Queen’s death is ‘ordinary,’ or that it could teach people how to die more like her, has for how we approach inequalities in society and palliative and end of life care. There is much to...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship

...class, race or gender. Key, in this regard, is preventing private actors from unduly influencing the government and its institutions to their own advantage. Corruption in the form of “kickbacks”, are therefore illegal and heavily regulated. However, many fear that through sponsorship corporations may be legally violating this principle of government neutrality. In an...
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Why would you want your own web domain?
Digital & Computing

Why would you want your own web domain?

...class, and then put it back on the shelf, available to use again but not always running? Or what if you want to access an application that might be difficult to install, or isn’t available for your computer? Or you’re running a netbook or tablet, and the application you want isn’t available as an app, just as a piece of “traditionally installed software”? I’ve...
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Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?
History & The Arts

Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?

...classes as much as the cash-strapped student or minimum wage earner, alongside the busy commuter. Another is that there remains a significant swath of older people whose eschew Twitter and Snapchat, prefer the BBC to Vice and would still rather read their news on paper than on a phone. Especially if it’s cheap. Older people are poorly served by the news media in many...
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Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity
Society, Politics & Law

Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity

...class, professional photographer Knut Bry are presented alongside those by young refugees living in the camp. This envisioning of solidarity with refugees is radically unlike mainstream media images of refugees because they are by and with refugees. These pictures do not objectify, do not rely on tropes of victimhood but speak of hope, agency and resilience through...
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Selling Empire: Exhibitions
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Exhibitions

...classes, and families of emigrants) were Empire enthusiasts, and which (including some unions) were critical of, or largely ignorant about, Empire. [Egyptian Court] 'Egyptian Court' North Transept of the Crystal Palace', from Matthew Digby Wyatt's 'Views of the Crystal Palace and Park' This poster shows exhibits, first displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851, that did...
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