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...works well in open spaces where there is a clear line of sight to the sky. The webs of concrete and steel that make up complex buildings like offices, blocks of flats, hospitals and shopping centres interrupt those signals. An alternative approach being experimented with is the placing of a network of Bluetooth beacons in such buildings. These can interact with smartphone...

...work directly benefits British people’s health, security and economic well-being. Are they experts Britain can do without? Leave campaigners implied that quitting the European Union would be as easy as giving up a gym membership. Instead, the process looks fiendishly complicated – and that’s before the impact of abandoning EU agencies has been discussed. Presumably...

...work was based in the UK for many years, more recently I have welcomed opportunities to research aspects of children’s lives in China, and family experiences of death in Senegal. In these projects, I’m driven by the need to step outside the perspectives of the minority, affluent worlds in which I live, to find out what it is ‘we’/I don’t know. Knowledge needs to...