Blog and updates
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22 Feb 2018
Modern Slavery
The following article follows a man called Stephen who had been trafficked from Hanoi, Vietnam and ended up working in a cannabis farm in the UK.
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21 Feb 2018
Bradford Unemployment
The following article examines some of the issues faced by young people in Bradford.
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20 Feb 2018
The Enlightenment Now
One potentially tricky area of sociology is the study of modernity and how this fits with the bigger picture of studying society, both in the past, the present and looking towards the future.
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19 Feb 2018
Education for Refugees
The following article examines the ability to enter education for two teenage boys in two different countries.
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15 Feb 2018
Commuting
Millions (if not billions!) of people around the world commute to get to work.
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14 Feb 2018
Getting all the Data
The Census is collected and published every 10 years in the UK. The data gathered shows the makeup (e.g., gender, ages, ethnicity, employment figures) for a particular population.
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13 Feb 2018
Votes for Women: 100 Years
Last week saw the centenary of the vote for (some) women in the UK. The change in the law (Representation of the People Act, 1918) allowed some other groups of men to vote also.
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8 Feb 2018
The British Empire
Another useful documentary series (once again from the BBC!) this time looking at the British Empire.
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7 Feb 2018
Megacities
The following video explores episode one of a documentary series originally aired on BBC One looking at megacities.
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6 Feb 2018
Irish Abortion Referendum
The following video highlights the Irish government’s decision to hold a nationwide vote into abortion rules. Significantly, the government has chosen to hold the referendum in May, when students...
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5 Feb 2018
Political Views and Attractiveness
So, apparently one’s political views are linked to a person’s attractiveness…
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2 Feb 2018
Channel 4 News: Jordan Peterson
The following video from Channel 4 News is the full interview between journalist Cathy Newman and the clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson.
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1 Feb 2018
Helping Underprivileged Girls: Education
Tim Cook the CEO of Apple and Malala Yousafzai the women’s rights campaigner are teaming up to help lead a program to get more girls into education in countries such as Lebanon, Afghanistan and...
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31 Jan 2018
Land Use in Hong Kong
As some of the world’s cities are growing ever larger, government policy makers are now tasked with devising more creative ways to maximise land use.
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30 Jan 2018
Inequality Gap Widens
The following article examines a recent report published by Oxfam to coincide with the meeting of some of the world’s richest people in Davos, Switzerland.
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26 Jan 2018
Boom for Marine Biology Courses
An interesting article from The Guardian about a rise in the uptake for Marine Biology courses since the BBC series Blue Planet II last year.
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