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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...Law Review, 43(6), pp. 1241–1299. Dillard, C. (2000) ‘The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen: examining an endarkened feminist epistemology in educational research and leadership’, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 13(6), pp. 661–81. Hill Collins, P. (2000) Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and...
Raising awareness and support for men
Health, Sports & Psychology

Raising awareness and support for men

...law. To improve gender relations and promote gender equality: this includes both men and women leading by example to create a fair and safe society that allows everyone the opportunity to prosper. To create a safer, better world: where people can be safe and grow to reach their full potential. Why the focus on men? [Portrait of a white man & black man in a hoodie image...
Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?
Digital & Computing

Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?

...laws or regulations might affect the internet, like 2015’s Open Internet Order, policymakers must ensure we all benefit – not just a select few companies or industries. They must treat the internet as a public resource and a public trust whose security and stability are not to be subverted to the service of private special interests. As customers and users, when...
Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...law and a female’s inability to make decisions by herself. This is just not true for many Muslim women that I know. Islam itself gives a high status to women who are the heart and centre of the home, I know quite a few Muslim women who are strong decision makers, they work hard to empower themselves and their husbands are supportive. The media would like to portray...
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...Scots spent fourteen years of sorrowful captivity, sometimes at the Manor and sometimes in Sheffield Castle. This hold was taken by the Parliamentarians in the Civil War; but the famous industries of the place had begun long before; so that Chaucer could say of one of his pilgrims, "A Sheffield thwytel bare he in his hose." Thwytels, or whittles, figured in the broils and...
Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time
Society, Politics & Law

Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time

...Scots or the Scottish, so that wasn’t up for grabs. So the idea that this was all about some kind of Braveheart image of national identity is far from the mark. Very rarely was that to be seen. That’s not to say it was never there, particularly in blogs and on websites, but as part of the fundamental campaign it was not an issue. Interviewer: Is there a specific issue...
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...law at present. So I am forced to look at other options. INTERVIEWER What have you decided then? ANITA I’ve decided that when the time comes, I will go to Switzerland. I don’t want to go, and I will have to go too early because I need to be fit enough to travel. But I haven’t got, I don’t see any other option. I really don’t see any other option. But I’m not...
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...Scots or the kimono for the Japanese today. This is why the poet Virgil called the Romans ‘the masters of the world, the toga-clad race (gens togata)’ (Aeneid 1.281–2). Third, the toga symbolised civic duty and Republican egalitarianism. During the Republic, all Roman citizens, rich or poor, were theoretically equal in the eyes of the law. (No matter that in reality...