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LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters

...families. Multiple court cases were taken by couples seeking legal recognition and businesses, charities, politicians and businesses stood shoulder to shoulder with our community demanding change. Unfortunately, like so many times before, this change was not achieved through the Northern Ireland Assembly, but rather was introduced and passed through Westminster with cross...
Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...family of tiles, like the hat, that could tile the surface in the same way. [Hat monotiling.] The image above is of hat tiles - the surface with rotations and reflections (in dark red). One member of this family had the extra special property. It could tile the infinite surface aperiodically, and it could do so without using reflections. This extra special tile is the...
Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...family groups of two parents with chicks and adolescents, coalescing into larger tribes. [Turkey close-up] When it rains, wild turkeys go about their business, pecking at food – I’ve yet to see one raise it’s mouth and drown. And they have feelings. My daughter and I once watched as 4 turkeys stood around a comrade who’d just been run over, clearly distraught....
The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...families are more likely to be poor and in persistent poverty, live in areas of deprivation, have lower attainment and progress in comparison to White pupils in schools and be economically disadvantaged; 1 in 10 adults who identify as BME are more likely to be unemployed in comparison to White people at 1 in 25 (Race Disparity Audit, 2017). Within the Higher Education...
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...trees - A decision tree is usually used to depict the options or various courses of actions available for solving a problem. This allows the relationships between options to be clarified, revealing the different decision points and the levels that exist. If something goes wrong, the decision can be re-examined and the point at which the wrong option was chosen can be...
Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?

...family, children, nephews, nieces and siblings, I can identify that all these factors have had some impact on their participation in sport. Talking to the parents/carers in my family they explain how they have dealt with these barriers and have had differing levels of success in overcoming them. For example, my work tends to be flexible so I can chaperone my children to...
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...families, like Prabh Deep, whose grandparents fled the Partition of the Punjab. On a more granular level, my participants reflexively engage with Delhi’s complexity on various scales. For example, in and through Delhi’s complex urbanity, they find ways with which they can transform their marginalised positionalities as migrants and begin to imagine themselves as part...
The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world
Society, Politics & Law

The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world

...families navigate technology safely and addresses emerging parenting challenges in the digital age. Parentzone is one of the partner organisations at the Centre for Protecting Women Online. Vicki is also a Trustee of the Media and Information Literacy Association, Chair of international youth-led organisation Voicebox, and chairs a consortium of organisations researching...