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Health, Sports & Psychology
Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Taking the tools of psychology and using them to explore citizenship can be revealing - so why doesn't it happen more often, asks Eleni Andreouli.
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Digital & Computing
How is the internet helping ensure parliamentary accountability in Bangladesh?
Although Bangladeshi MPs are slow to adopt Facebook and other methods of directy communication with constituents, a new service is closing the gap between representatives and the people.
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History & The Arts
Should Trump's tweets be a matter of record?
When the President deletes a tweet, he's wiping out material of value to historians. Potentially. Shontavia Johnson explains what's at risk.
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Nature & Environment
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
This free course, ‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?, explores how environmental problems are entangled with economic and political issues and offers tools for making sense of the complexity that results. The case of land grab illustrates how everyday issues such as food prices are caught up in connections that link different places, different...
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Society, Politics & Law
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
A changing society needs changing methods to make sense of itself. Open Methodologies offers a new way of research. Elizabeth Silva explains more.
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Society, Politics & Law
Three weeks in June and one night in November
In the bleak year of 2016, Britain voted to leave the EU, and Donald Trump became the 45th American president. Both events will have dramatic and long-lasting implications for health and healthcare.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
How can honour killings be stopped?
Earlier today, the House of Commons heard a ten-minute rule bill presented by Nusrat Ghani to tackle so-called honour killings. The police have said that it will take community action to eradicate the crime. But communities still need to be supported by the legal system, argues Dr Hannana Siddiqui.
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Society, Politics & Law
The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban
It's important, believes Eric Kaufmann, to understand the difference between the intent of the two Trump policies - and not throw the word "racist" around too easily.
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Nature & Environment
Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?
Demand for building land is going to take 30 million hectares out of production. Where will the food for the new city dwellers come from?
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Society, Politics & Law
What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?
Jordan removed legal punishments for same-gender relationships nearly two decades before the UK decriminalised consensual gay male intercourse. But day-to-day life for LGBTQ people in the country isn't easy. Nora B reports.
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Society, Politics & Law
Does the US have a legal obligation to accept refugees?
Donald Trump's order preventing entry to the US for citizens of certain countries has proved controversial - but is it legal?
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Society, Politics & Law
Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
The world is always changing around us. If we want to understand how, we need to think about how we understand. Elizabeth Silva explains why methods do not only describe the world, they build it.