Blog and updates
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30 Jul 2020
The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic
This article would be suitable for both psychology and sociology and explores the role of cognitive dissonance in understanding more about ourselves, and how others behave/think during the pandemic.
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29 Jul 2020
End of the office: the quiet, grinding loneliness of working from home
This article discusses how work has changed since Covid-19.
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28 Jul 2020
The class of Covid-19: meet the school leavers facing an uncertain future
With GCSE and A Level exam results due to be published next month, here is an article containing interviews with young people who are expecting their results.
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27 Jul 2020
Podcast Recommendation: BBC Woman's Hour
There is a segment in this episode of Woman's Hour that focuses on the mental health of black women in the UK.
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24 Jul 2020
The Business of Drugs: inside the economics of America's longest war
A new Netflix series highlights 'The Business of Drugs' with each episode tackling one type of drug.
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23 Jul 2020
'Women always take the brunt': India sees surge in unsafe abortion
This article explores one of the impacts of Covid-19 on female reproductive rights.
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22 Jul 2020
Money really can buy happiness and recessions can take it away
This article from The Economist illustrates how people living in wealthier countries feel more satisfied and secure in their lives.
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21 Jul 2020
Black History
This timeline from The Guardian provides some examples of events that help define Black History.
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20 Jul 2020
Podcast Recommendation: BBC Woman's Hour
The first segment from this episode of BBC Woman's Hour examines the perception of female perpetrators of crime.
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17 Jul 2020
How humans are making pandemics more likely
This video from Vox discusses how humans are making pandemics more likely.
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16 Jul 2020
Is Facebook losing the boycott battle?
I posted recently about how a number of companies have suspended their advertising on Facebook as a result of its perceived failure to tackle hateful content.
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15 Jul 2020
Women's careers will suffer most if UK childcare sector collapses, say experts
A report from the Sutton Trust has found that one in three nurseries could be forced out of business as a result of the coronavirus.
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14 Jul 2020
How the Black Death made the rich richer
This article originally published on The Conversation explores the impact of the Black Death and how it made the rich even richer.
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13 Jul 2020
Being childfree by choice: five women on why they decided not to have kids
This short video from The Guardian contains interviews with women who have decided that having children isn't for them.
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10 Jul 2020
How the Pandemic Could Transform Higher Ed
This video from the Wall Street Journal explores the impact of the pandemic on higher education in the USA.
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9 Jul 2020
Covid-19: is working from home really the new normal?
This video from The Economist examines the impact of Covid-19 on the way in which many people work.
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8 Jul 2020
Podcast Recommendation: Hometown - A Killing
This podcast from BBC Sounds follows journalist Mobeen Azhar as he covers a story in his hometown of Huddersfield.
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7 Jul 2020
Nearly half of black UK households are living in poverty
The Social Metrics Commission have found that black and minority ethnic (BAME) households in the UK are more likely to live in poverty resulting in a greater exposure "to job losses and pay cuts...
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6 Jul 2020
GCSE and A-level autumn exams offered in all subjects
England's exam regulator, Ofqual announced last week that students who are unhappy with GCSE and A Level grades that they are awarded this summer can sit the exams this autumn.
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3 Jul 2020
Apprenticeships 'are not delivering social mobility'
The Social Mobility Commission had said that the apprenticeship system is failing some groups of young people.
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