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Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...education: Maximising impacts (Executive summary). Available at: https://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/gender_equality_in_higher_education_executive_summary.pdf Dias Lopes, A. and Wakeling, P. (2022) ‘Inequality in early career research in the UK life sciences’. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Available at:
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Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...Education and Claire’s in Politics, strengthened our analysis, showing how identity, care and power intersected across contexts. Perhaps most importantly, CoAE embodied the principle we were advocating; Black mothers’ experiences are a legitimate source of knowledge about the systems we navigate. In Mothering at the Margins, we modelled the kind of research that...
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Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...education, in terms of healthcare and so on and so forth which, even if you don't care much about material wellbeing, are great goods. And the cheapest way to deliver that is through coal which means that if you think it is right these people get richer in every sense of the word, which I think is right, then you would have to accept that they will emit more greenhouse...
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Emmy Noether: Bucking the historical trends
Science, Maths & Technology

Emmy Noether: Bucking the historical trends

...education, women are opting to work in sciences such as biology and medical sciences, rather than mathematics and physics. Historically, women have not enjoyed educational equality. Indeed, Oxford only began awarding degrees to women in the 1920s. Even today the number of women receiving degrees in mathematics is half that of men. In turn, this lack of access has seeded a...
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Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...technology stories...[Close-up of a Sinclair ZX81 keyboard] The Apple tax judgement The European Commission has, this morning, announced that Apple will have to pay the Irish Government €13billion in back taxes. BBC News has the story: "Member states cannot give tax benefits to selected companies - this is illegal under EU state aid rules," said Commissioner Margarethe...
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Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...educated. Finally, Section 4 focuses on children’s street play. The street was a place that children once fairly freely occupied and adapted for play in various spontaneous and imaginative ways. Today, of course, streets are, in the main, claimed by moving and parked vehicles. This section includes some memories from adults reflecting on their childhood days spent...
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Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...Educators as Agents of Change? A Critical Realist Study of a Group of Teacher Educators in a Kenyan University. This study focuses on the professional identity of a group of teacher educators in a Kenyan university. To improve student outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, the quality of teaching and therefore the quality of teacher education (TE) needs to improve. Policy...
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Discovering the dark side of the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering the dark side of the Moon

...and has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in journals of high-scientific standing. He currently chairs the UK-node of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) comprising of over 100 members from 15 UK higher education institutions. In the video below, Mahesh discusses the far side of the moon and why we need samples from it. Transcript...
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