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Management and the unconscious mind
Money & Business

Management and the unconscious mind

...styles... Why are managers in the East happier to work with a greater level of ambiguity? Western culture has a history of emphasising rational thought and individuals identifying with their conscious mind. Tacit knowledge and changing the management culture Tacit knowledge is difficult to transfer but a culture that allows space for slower forms of thought can help...
Repatriation and returning remains
History & The Arts

Repatriation and returning remains

...of things: an introduction to material culture... Encountering a body Nigel Warburton discusses two different cases regarding the issue of consent when displaying human remains. Torres Strait remains The Natural History Museum in London gave back 138 ancestral remains to the Torres Strait islands. Objections to Repatriation Tiffany Jenkins argues against repatriation...
What is COVID-19?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is COVID-19?

...family and friends, we visited neighbours, we travelled where and when we wanted, and we shopped among the crowds, without hand sanitizer and protective gloves on. Just a few months later, life has changed beyond recognition. The first cases of the virus we now call COVID-19 were detected in China’s Hubei Province at the end of December 2019. Now, for most of us, the...
Do independent enterprises really matter?
Money & Business

Do independent enterprises really matter?

...family firms, cooperatives and social enterprises in particular. Here there is are real risk that values will be dissipated after a sell-off – but small firms can also be overly conservative, hosting values and practices that are best consigned to history. Independents are often sources of real originality and difference, which rarely survive the transition to corporate...
Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...families, and the cultures of everyday life in Britain, exploring changes in my own life and the environment I was living in, curious to learn from others about their lives and choices. The social divisions of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality, and the challenges of changing them when culture creates and reproduces inequalities and hierarchies, have occupied most...
A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...history. Someone else who was greatly influenced by the book was David Bowie. In the early 1970s, he’d wanted to make a musical of another famous work of dystopian fiction, 1984, but George Orwell’s widow, Sonia, refused him the rights. Instead, he adapted his ideas into Diamond Dogs and created his own dystopian world: a broken society where “a disaffected youth...
Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too
Society, Politics & Law

Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too

...history of widening participation to students from groups traditionally under-represented in higher education. Disadvantaged youngsters were 70% more likely to enter higher education in 2014 than they were in 2004. The universities which have had most impact in widening participation include Bolton, Edge Hill, Greenwich, London Metropolitan, London South Bank, Sunderland,...
Life on the wall: Vindolanda
History & The Arts

Life on the wall: Vindolanda

...history, and it has had a dramatic impact on our knowledge of Roman army life on the northern frontier. There is only so much information that can be gained from a normal archaeological investigation of even the best preserved of remains, although for Roman Britain there has always been the chance of finding a meaningful inscription – the record of a building’s...