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Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Society, Politics & Law

Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap

...social harms and social problems that they generate, never mind to present them in a way that is meaningful. And this is where assorted modes of transport can come in handy! Oxfam and The Guardian have used images of vastly expensive super yachts as a way of depicting wealth and affluence, yachts often regarded as the ultimate status symbol that reflects someone’s...
Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...interact with it. Thus, the social media network is the underlying technology and human connections, while social media focuses strictly on what is being published and consumed within the social networking platform.’ (Froehlich, 2020) Activity 3 What do you consider when you post on social media? Timing: 5 minutes If you use social media, think ......
Jurors are subject to all kinds of biases when it comes to deciding on a trial
Society, Politics & Law

Jurors are subject to all kinds of biases when it comes to deciding on a trial

...social psychology, and individual differences) to unlock the processes behind the decisions jurors reach. The aim of our recent review was to bring together different areas of psychology to identify potential sources of bias that may influence how jurors make decisions. [Autopsy of a Crime Lab | An Interview with Itiel Dror] The big three biases We identified three main...
30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
Money & Business

30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’

...interactions by occasional phone calls and a meeting with the team twice a month. At first Mike was hiring temporary office space for these meetings, but he quickly realised that it would be more cost-effective to meet at home, so now the team takes turns to host meetings in their own front rooms – and as Mike noted, “the catering is much better.” Longstanding...
Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network
OpenLearn Ireland

Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network

...interactive online map of the historic barracks network is available on the ‘Our Shared Built Military Heritage’ project website. This research provides important new insights into the extent and evolution of the barracks network in Ireland over time and is intended to help facilitate further work in this area. Indeed, the social and cultural history of historic...
Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...social and political change. Change happens for many reasons. It can be gradual developmental change to make improvements to skills, technology or processes that already exist, or it can be transformational where the change is dramatic and is characterised by a radical change to things like the mission, culture, leadership and structure of an organisation. Change is...
Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...social attitudes of their time. Historians have found great value in studying both the ‘texts’ of films as well as the ‘contexts’ of their production. But who made and used the original – primarily non-fiction – films which historians still mostly study? How and why did film-makers use this medium? Three broad categories of user come to mind - professionals,...
Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...social and cultural values of the day. As such, they are highly revealing as social documents of their time. For example, the issue of unemployment is tackled in a ‘happy-go-lucky’ musical comedy Sing as We Go (1934) with Gracie Fields in a factory that gets closed down but miraculously reopens after a new scientific invention (by, naturally, a middle-class man) and...