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Selling Empire: Introduction
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Introduction

...publicity. In reality, it spent as much money on research as publicity, but it was the latter which lodged in the public mind. In its six-year life, it unleashed millions of posters, from a few gigantic billboard features, such as Highways of Empire (shown above, 1927), through cheap, reduced-size copies sent to thousands of schools and sold to the pubic, to miniature...
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Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology

...health and community qualification. Technology is everywhere, and mobile phones have become an essential part of everyday life. According to Ofcom’s 2017 figures, 94% of adults in the UK own a mobile phone; and over three-quarters of those are smartphones. And while mobile phones were originally designed to facilitate phone calls on the go, Deloitte’s mobile consumer...
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The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...public understand and perceive crimes, criminals and families of criminals. Research (Mercadal, 2023) highlights how the media serves as a primary source of information about crimes which can influence societal perceptions and influence attitudes and fears regarding safety and justice. Media representations of crimes are often selective, sensationalised and in some cases...
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Has media literacy become self-destructive?
Education & Development

Has media literacy become self-destructive?

...publications, and experts with advanced degrees are all highly trustworthy. Think about how this might play out in communities where the “liberal media” is viewed with disdain as an untrustworthy source of information…or in those where science is seen as contradicting the knowledge of religious people…or where degrees are viewed as a weapon of the elite to justify...
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Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender

...health struggles are related to gender roles and norms, and gender inequalities continue to have a marked impact on people’s lives. Considering the self-help and pop psychology books on gender that do exist and help us to make sense of this, these overwhelmingly present gender as binary and fixed from birth. Differences between men and women are seen as normal and...
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Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...publication and which became a seminal work, still discussed and debated fifty years later. Snow’s thesis concerned the ‘gulf of mutual incomprehension ’ (Snow, 1965) between those who followed the sciences and those who saw the arts and humanities as their natural home. Each ‘sect’ saw their own disciplines as being superior in their contribution to humanity...
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Introduction to the Amazon System
Nature & Environment

Introduction to the Amazon System

...public services and severe health problems. On the other hand, a small number of elite individuals and their associated corporations have significantly benefited from the exploitation of the Amazon’s natural resources. The economic transformation of the Amazon based on the conversion and degradation of its natural ecosystem – its forests – is gaining momentum (see...
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Left behind?
Society, Politics & Law

Left behind?

...health, and even homosexuality. Despite the ten per cent statistic, a recent event reminded me of how left-handedness is still something we struggle to live with. Just look at the latest Apple watch launched in September 2014. After the launch, Apple was inundated with thousands of complaints from left-handed people saying the watch was designed for right-handed people. I...
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