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Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...analysis holds that the most salient aspect of an image is what its maker intended to communicate: the participants tell me what is in the picture and we discuss its meaning from there. In order to make these images accessible to wider audiences a website was created on which we could exhibit the collected material. The website‘s largest asset is that it offers a...
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Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship

...analysis of citizenship, in an effort to advance a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of today’s politics. To start with, citizenship is better understood as a practice or an act, rather than a status. Studying citizenship is about studying the processes ‘through which actors constitute themselves (and others) as subjects of rights’ (Isin, 2009:371). In...
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The devil is in the (complex) detail
Health, Sports & Psychology

The devil is in the (complex) detail

...analysis on the basis it was too ‘gloomy’. The high pace of the negotiation process - with less than 2 years of negotiation time to thrash out the issues - and with the polarisation of issues taking place via the group pressures operating within the UK government, are the ideal conditions for making decision-making biases more likely. The implications for the process...
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What's next for British wages?
Money & Business

What's next for British wages?

...analysis of why wages remain so persistently low. Conventional accounts of declining worker rights or crumbling welfare state do not fully address contemporary economic realities. This is particularly true in trying to understand why the effects of the “recovery” post-crisis. The current economy is one of increased zero-hour contracts and underemployment rather than...
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CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
History & The Arts

CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)

...analysis of thirty-four cities and proposed solutions to urban problems. The conclusions were published as "The Athens Charter" (so-called because the Congress was held on board the SS Patris en route from Marseilles to Athens). This document remains one of the most controversial ever produced by CIAM. The charter effectively committed CIAM to rigid functional cities,...
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Wanted! Starlings
Nature & Environment

Wanted! Starlings

...analysis of invasive starling populations suggests that starlings were introduced several times in most countries. In parts of its native range, including the British Isles and Finland, the starling has suffered huge declines and is of conservation concern, however, in many of the places it has been introduced, populations of this species have increased rapidly and it is...
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What is forensic science?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is forensic science?

...observations such as counting the number and maturity of insects invading a decaying corpse. It is common for evidence from several types of forensic science to be used in one case. The application of science to collection, analysis and explanation of evidence, allows a forensic scientist to reconstruct historical events, identify victims and pinpoint the perpetrators....
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Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...analysis. The material includes a short video excerpt in which the American criminologist Jonathan Simon (University of California, Berkeley) discusses the problem of crime in the US and the way the ‘War on Crime’ can be viewed as a strategy of governance, rather than a straightforward, practical policy response. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of postgraduate...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs