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Education & Development
How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?
...public institutions, remains highly charged and disputed. The killing of George Floyd in 2020 by police officers during an arrest in Minneapolis in the US, as well as other notable deaths of unarmed Black and other civilians of racially minoritised groups at the hands of police in the US within a relatively brief time period, re-ignited public debate in the UK about...
History & The Arts
Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity
...health tourists in the company of Eastern European 'experts'. Patrolling, a recent digital conversation for performing borders | LIVE, created by Critical Interruptions, considered borders not as exclusive or oppressive, but as potentially emancipatory and progressive, by imagining events taking place on borders of un- and partially recognised countries in Eastern Europe....
Health, Sports & Psychology
For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists
...health of older adults after disasters, such as the one I responded to above. Age alone does not make people more vulnerable to disasters, but many health issues that are common with aging do, including frailness, memory impairment, limited mobility and chronic illness. Sixty percent of Hurricane Katrina deaths were age 65 and older, and more older adults died after...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Demystifying Chronic Kidney Disease: what is it and who is at risk?
...Health and Wellbeing courses. What is Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)? CKD develops overtime and involves abnormalities in both kidneys. There may be a loss of kidney function, with or without other evidence of kidney damage. If CKD progresses, there is a risk that the kidneys will not be able to carry out their normal functions, causing a threat to life. CKD ranges from...
History & The Arts
Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
...publication ensured an incompleteness and lack of closure, and required readers to assemble installments as sequential parts of a disconnected whole. What Dickens searched for was an adaptive model for improving upon the fragmentary form of serial fiction. As Dawson persuasively suggests, “What was necessary, in both paleontological reconstructions and the composition...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Meet the academic - Dr Claire Rostron
Dr Claire Rostron talks Health Science and Neuroscience with Janet Sumner.
Science, Maths & Technology
Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence
...public, best keep themselves informed about the extent to which advances in AI may impact on the economy, as well as our society? A recent consultation by the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence has called for evidence on the economic, ethical and social implications of advances in artificial intelligence [call for evidence PDF]. The consultation...