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Digital & Computing
Ministry of Sharing: Are you a safe sharer?
Are you a model citizen or a menace to society when it comes to divulging personal details? Take the test from the Ministry of Sharing and find out whether you share too much information.
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Society, Politics & Law
The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Herring fishing followed the migration of the shoals and the Scottish herring women followed too, gutting, curing and packing. It was a tough life, as this article reveals.
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Society, Politics & Law
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Around the world, the pandemic overturned our ways of working. For many workers the pandemic caused losses of work, increased unemployment, informality, reduced incomes, business closures. Around the world all but essential workers stayed at home. But what exactly is “essential work”? Employers and authorities were slow to ensure adequately ...
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Society, Politics & Law
Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned
After the global financial crisis, fierce debates over the role of fiscal policy broke out among economists, policymakers and the public at large. Are lessons learned for when the next crisis arrives? Did the legacy of the devastating impact of austerity affect the rationale of fiscal policy response after the pandemic?
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Society, Politics & Law
Why grow a tree? Barriers and boosters for landowners to adopt agroforestry
Planting trees can align environmental and development goals and integrate sustainable practices into rural livelihoods. However, there are many challenges in adopting agroforestry practices.
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Society, Politics & Law
The sharing economy
How sharing and caring is the sharing economy? Petr Jehlička takes a critical look at the booming sector and traces its hidden connections and contradictions.
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Society, Politics & Law
1722 to 2021 - a history of Scotland's railway
Where did it start and what influenced the development of Scotland's railway industry? Find out in this brief interactive guide to key points in its history.
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Society, Politics & Law
Housing beyond borders
How can tracing international financial flows through Manchester and Salford help us understand how British cities are changing?
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Money & Business
The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?
One consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic was that many workers quit their jobs en masse. Will this have a lasting effect on the labour market?
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Society, Politics & Law
Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions
The war years transformed working life for women, called upon to fill the void left by men. Proving themselves more than capable in jobs formerly considered only suitable for men contributed to the fight for women's suffrage.
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Society, Politics & Law
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Nicole McLean made railway history when at just 21 she became the youngest person to qualify as a train driver. She shares the story of her impressive achievement with Lois Nicolson.
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Society, Politics & Law
Introducing key global development challenges
Global development is at a critical turning point. This course introduces ‘challenges’ as a spur to thinking critically and creatively about development’s future on a global scale. You will identify how the four key challenges of conflict, governance, justice, and transformation cut-across all areas of global development. These touch upon all ...