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What is it like to research death and loss?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is it like to research death and loss?

...education of death, dying, loss, and grief across the life course and in diverse contexts. The Centre’s vision is to use research and education to foster open dialogue and critical engagement with death and loss. This podcast is a conversation between three of the Centre’s members discussing their experiences of what it is like to do research in this topic area. They...
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War, Intervention and Development
Nature & Environment

War, Intervention and Development

...education, poverty and unemployment are still rife and it's this lack of development that gives rise to conflict. Views from all sides are presented, including those of women, disaffected youth, members of the RUF and the new peace-keeping forces, to provide an in-depth analysis of the complexities of the aftermath of a civil war. In the academic perspective, Helen...
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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...technologies was developed and became operational within 18 months. Box 1 Choatic scheme that left families relying on food parcels Demands mount for overhaul of aid that led to ‘debt and despair’ Gordon Brown, the chancellor, faced fresh calls last night for a radical overhaul of the tax credit system after the Treasury published figures showing that administration...
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Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...educational attainment and poor literacy/numeracy skills, are unemployed and come from a lower income or impoverished background. There is a stronger link, therefore, between poverty and prisons than there is between dangerousness and prisons. In the U.S. around 16,000 people die each year as a result of street crime. Contrast this with the 55,000 who die as a result of...
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Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place
History & The Arts

Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place

...technologies.” This activist spirit stems from what The Guardian has called the “greatest protest song ever”. Young wrote the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song “Ohio” in May 1970 in response to the shootings of four Kent State University students by the US National Guard during a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War. His activism has more recently led him to...
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Can computers be therapists?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can computers be therapists?

...technology for mental health problems is not a new thing, in the past mediums such as cassette tapes and VHS/video have been used as means to deliver help for psychological issues. In fact, the first attempts at computerised therapy occurred almost 50 years ago, starting with ELIZA in the 1960’s. ELIZA aimed to simulate a therapeutic conversation using a script based on...
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Beachbrains
Science, Maths & Technology

Beachbrains

...technological revisions, papers in Expert Systems currently present excellent results with ANNs based on a few hundred neurons. But it is still a long way from getting a ‘beachful of silicon’ thinking. Not because it is the most polished or complete but because it is focused on leveraging artificial neural nets through the Internet, the Artificial Intelligence...
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Is Huawei's low-key approach the secret of its success?
Money & Business

Is Huawei's low-key approach the secret of its success?

...technology company. Away from our intense research activity, we became mindful of stark differences between Huawei and other Silicon Valley technology companies we have visited. We noted two things which we thought particularly interesting (acknowledging that many others have provided much more detailed analysis of Huawei’s management practices (e.g. Tao et al. 2016)...
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