Blog and updates
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17 Sept 2020
Coronavirus: 300,000 redundancies planned in June and July
A BBC Freedom of Information request has found that over 300,000 redundancies were made by companies in June and July this year.
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16 Sept 2020
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
Continuing with the theme of technology from the previous two blog posts, this article from The Guardian was entirely written by a robot.
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14 Sept 2020
Thinking Allowed: Surveillance
This episode of Thinking Allowed examines the area of surveillance.
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11 Sept 2020
Nicola Adams: Same-sex partner 'big step' for Strictly Come Dancing
The new series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing will feature the first same-sex partner.
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10 Sept 2020
Labour calls for 2021 GCSE and A-level exams to be delayed
Many students will have already returned to school and this video explores the views of some students who are returning to school in Scotland, as well as highlighting concerns about exams at GCSE...
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9 Sept 2020
Young, British and Somali at Cambridge University
This short film from The Guardian follows a group of women as they prepare for studying at one of the elite universities in the UK: Cambridge University.
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8 Sept 2020
Lockdown may have lasting effects on friendships
Research conducted by the evolutionary psychologist Professor Dunbar at the University of Oxford has found that the strain on friendships during the lockdown could have some impacts on friendships.
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7 Sept 2020
A third of girls say they won’t post selfies without enhancement
According to the Girlguiding annual Girls' Attitude survey, half of girls said that they would not post selfies online without using a filter or app.
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4 Sept 2020
Jacob Blake: Police officer in Kenosha shooting named
Last week after days of unrest in Kenosha in Wisconsin, an unarmed man Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by a police officer.
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3 Sept 2020
(Un)Well
Netflix has released a documentary series focusing on alternative well-being treatments in (Un)Well.
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2 Sept 2020
How can post-Covid ghost cities be avoided?
This video from Channel 4 News explores how cities may change as a result of Covid-19.
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1 Sept 2020
Screen-based online learning will change kids' brains. Are we ready for that?
Here is an interesting opinion piece about the impact of screen-based learning.
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31 Aug 2020
Selective abortion in India could lead to 6.8m fewer girls being born by 2030
It is estimated that the use of selective abortions in India will result in 6.8 million fewer females births by 2030.
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28 Aug 2020
Levels of depression have doubled during coronavirus pandemic
It has been reported that the number of people experiencing depression has increased since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
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27 Aug 2020
Facebook showed this ad to 95% women. Is that a problem?
The issues related to computer algorithms has been highlighted recently with the release of examination results in the UK. This video examines how algorithms target people on social media.
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26 Aug 2020
‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts under their real names
The Reclaim Her Name project aims to reprint 24 books by women whose work had been previously published using their male pseudonyms.
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25 Aug 2020
What is stop and search and what are my rights?
This article from BBC News describes the stop and search powers by police.
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24 Aug 2020
Podcast Recommendation: Nice White Parents
The following podcast from The New York Times/Serial Productions explores the relationship between educational equality in New York.
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31 Jul 2020
A-level and GCSE results to be higher this summer
Here is another article about GCSE and A Level exam results that are due to be released next month.
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