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How is the internet helping ensure parliamentary accountability in Bangladesh?
Digital & Computing

How is the internet helping ensure parliamentary accountability in Bangladesh?

...profiles and two Twitter accounts belonging to MPs are verified. Most MPs therefore are not active on popular social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter while many citizens complain that MPs are not reachable via the official contact phone or email provided on the Bangladesh Parliament website. Blogger Chandra Bindu wrote on Facebook: অনেক অনেক...
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How inclusive is women’s football?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How inclusive is women’s football?

...profile case of former England player, Eniola Aluko (of Black heritage and pictured below), is significant as it also powerfully reveals the way that accusations of racism can be denied and resisted. [Eniola Aluko on stage during the opening day of Web Summit 2019 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal.] In 2016, Aluko disclosed multiple occasions where she had been...
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Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves

...profile and infrastructure across Northern Ireland would mean the disbandment of the Home Service battalions of The Royal Irish Regiment. Sensitive handling was paramount. There was a steadfast and perhaps hopeful logic to it all, but there was a keen awareness too of decades of turmoil, pain and raw emotion across all communities. Not least among the courageous men and...
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Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment
Education & Development

Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment

...profile of an OU Associate Lecturer is and consider instead who it could be. This would then allow us to benefit from the pool of incredible talent that exists across the HE sector and in professional practice. This research has also uncovered the need for institutional-wide change to structural and cultural ingrained practices and processes. This article first appeared...
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Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?
History & The Arts

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?

...style Alcibiades didn’t have a private jet like Trump, but he did have seven teams of four-horse chariots, which he entered in the Olympic Games, winning first, second and fourth prize. He was utterly contemptuous of convention. Every other Athenian had a warlike symbol painted on his shield – a lion or a boar or an eagle – but Alcibiades had Eros, the god of love,...
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Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...style muscle man wrestling with a snake. The image is modelled on some high end culture, the renowned sculpture by Lord Leighton of an athlete struggling with a python. In 1889, the dockers were conducting a fight against the poverty caused by casualisation and the lack of a living wage (they demanded the Dockers' tanner) and the words on the ribbon read 'we shall fight...
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The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done

...style programme featuring 20 children aged eight to 11 – a 2010 Thane Review led to the English and Scottish governments establishing working parties to develop legislation and regulations analysing psychological risks to under-18s featured in performances, including television appearances. I contributed to this on behalf of the British Psychological Society (BPS). Our...
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Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015

...style/people/everyone-has-someone-gone-and-everyone-knows-someone-who-has-gone-1.1329340?page=2 Glynn, I., Kelly, T. and MacÉinrí, P. (2013) Irish Emigration in an Age of Austerity, The Irish Research Council, Émigré, Ireland [Online] http://static.rasset.ie/documents/news/emigration-in-an-age-of-austerity.pdf Ó Giollagáin, C. and Charlton, M. (2015) Nuashonrú ar...
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