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FacultiFacultiThe Meaning of 'Life' in Early Modern PhilosophyDeborah Brown suggests René Descartes philosophy recognises irreducible composites that resist reduction, and require their own distinctive modes of explanation2022-04-0316 minFacultiFacultiUnaccompanied Children in American-Occupied GermanyAmong the hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, approximately 40,000 were unaccompanied children. Lynne Taylor discusses the heated battles that erupted amongst the various entities (military, governments, and NGOs) responsible for children's care and disposition.2022-03-2724 minFacultiFacultiHuman Rights and Homelessness in the Neoliberal AgeAnne O'Brien discusses two moments of human rights advocacy for those experiencing homelessness; the Burdekan report on homeless children and the opposition to the Howard government erosion of democratic norms.2022-03-2017 minFacultiFacultiListening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western EncounterThomas Irvine discusses how the sonic encounter with China shaped perceptions of Europe’s own musical development.2022-03-1220 minFacultiFacultiStatistics and Scientific MethodPeter Diggle discusses how core statistical ideas of experimental design, modelling, and data analysis are integral to the scientific method.2021-10-2725 minFacultiFacultiWhat is Spatial History?Riccardo Bavaj introduces and discusses spatial history through the lens of the different primary sources that historians use2021-10-0317 minFacultiFacultiThebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient GreecePaul Cartledge discusses the differences and the interconnections between the Thebes of myth and the Thebes of history.2021-07-2609 minFacultiFacultiSounds of Liberty: Music, radicalism and reform in the Anglophone worldThroughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, Paul Pickering explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance2021-07-2407 minFacultiFacultiLet the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist ChallengeOver the past century, while democratic governments have become more efficient, they have also become more disconnected from the people they purport to represent. John Matsusaka discusses how direct democracy can bring policies back in line with the will of the people.populism2021-07-1012 minFacultiFacultiSavage Tales: The Writings of Paul GauguinAs a French artist who lived in Polynesia, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) occupies a crucial position in histories of European primitivism. Linda Goddard discusses his wide-ranging literary output, which included journalism, travel writing, art criticism, and essays on aesthetics, religion, and politics.2021-05-1812 minFacultiFacultiJames and His Striped Velvet PantaloonsThe striped velvet pantaloons of James, an enslaved man in the South Carolina upcountry, might not seem like an important legal artifact, but they are. Laura F. Edwards discusses how the legalities of textiles recast our understanding of Americans’ relationship to law and the economy in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. 2021-02-2823 minFacultiFacultiRenaissance WomanRamie Targoff discusses Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance.2021-02-2412 minFacultiFacultiBritish Literature and Culture in Second World WartimeBeryl Pong discusses British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future.2021-02-1311 minFacultiFacultiThe Anthology of Australian Prose PoetryProse poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington discuss Australian prose poetry written over the last fifty years.2020-12-0806 minFacultiFacultiCivil UnrestArtist Si Sapsford discusses her new book which looks at the installation of her mechanical piece Civil Unrest.2020-11-0211 minFacultiFacultiHow To Discover Mirror StarsDavid Curtin discusses the visible signatures of Mirror Stars in observations for the first time. If the dark and visible photon have a small kinetic mixing, SM matter is captured in Mirror Star cores, giving rise to an optical signal similar to but much fainter than white dwarfs. This distinctive signature is a smoking gun of Mirror Stars and could be discovered in optical and X-ray searches.2020-10-2300 minFacultiFacultiFeminine subjectivities and aspirational learner identitiesIn educational research, girls are frequently depicted as success stories, able to effortlessly navigate academic excellence as empowered females. However, these depictions lack nuance and often fail to capture the complexity of young women’s experiences as they shift from compulsory schooling into higher education.2020-09-3009 minFacultiFacultiSocial Externalities and Economic AnalysisMarc Fleurbaey and Brody Viney consider and assesses the concept of social externalities through human interdependence, in relation to the economic analysis of externalities in the tradition of Pigou and Arrow, including the analysis of the commons. It argues that there are limits to economic analysis.2020-09-1812 minFacultiFacultiTipping Positive Change to Avoid Climate Tipping PointsTipping points exist in social, ecological and climate systems and those systems are increasingly causally intertwined in the Anthropocene. Climate change and biosphere degradation have advanced to the point where we are already triggering damaging environmental tipping points, and to avoid worse ones ahead will require finding and triggering positive tipping points towards sustainability in coupled social, ecological and technological systems.2020-09-1411 minFacultiFacultiWar: How Conflict Shaped UsMargaret MacMillan discusses the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards those who fight. MacMillan explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have changed the societies that fight them, including the ways in which women have been both participants in and the objects of war.2020-09-0716 minFacultiFacultiThe Social LeapIn The Social Leap, William von Hippel lays out this revolutionary hypothesis, tracing human development through three critical evolutionary inflection points to explain how events in our distant past shape our lives today. From the mundane, such as why we exaggerate, to the surprising, such as why we believe our own lies and why fame and fortune are as likely to bring misery as happiness, the implications are far reaching and extraordinary.2020-09-0210 minFacultiFacultiCovid-19 across European Regions: the Role of Border ControlsAttempts to constrain the spread of Covid-19 included the temporal reintroduction of travel restrictions and border controls within the Schengen area. While such restrictions clearly involve costs, their benefits have been disputed. Using a new set of daily regional data of confirmed Covid-19 cases from the respective statistical agencies of 18 Western European countries Matthias Eckardt, Kalle Kappner and Nikolaus Wolf suggest that border controls had a significant effect to limit the pandemic.2020-08-2811 minFacultiFacultiRe-creation, Fragmentation, and ResilienceRe-Creation, Fragmentation, and Resilience tells the story of post Second World War Canada by exploring ten themes key to the Canadian experience since 1945. Dimitry Anastakis helps students to look at the period not only through the lens of traditional themes such a politics and foreign policy, but also through new, innovative themes such as the environment, the family, and technology.2020-08-2712 minFacultiFacultiGlobal virus outbreaks: Interferons as 1st respondersOutbreaks of severe virus infections with the potential to cause global pandemics are increasing. In many instances these outbreaks have been newly emerging (SARS coronavirus), re-emerging (Ebola virus, Zika virus) or zoonotic (avian influenza H5N1) virus infections. In the absence of a targeted vaccine or a pathogen-specific antiviral, broad-spectrum antivirals would function to limit virus spread. 2020-08-2510 minFacultiFacultiThe 99 Percent EconomyWe live in a time of crises - economic turmoil, workplace disempowerment, unresponsive government, environmental degradation, social disintegration, and international rivalry. In The 99 Percent Economy, Paul S. Adler, a leading expert on business management, argues that these crises are destined to deepen unless we radically transform our economy.2020-08-1819 minFacultiFacultiKosovo Divided: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Struggle for a StateMarius Calu investigates how the management of plurality is a fundamental element of contemporary state-building seeking to build social cohesion, while for the new-born Kosovo it stands as vital symbol for its domestic sovereignty and legitimisation. https://faculti.net/kosovo-divided/2020-08-1413 minFacultiFacultiPrivatisation of police: Themes from AustraliaRick Sarre discusses the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice. The private sector has become an increasingly important 'partner' in contemporary criminal justice with the unprecedented growth of public sector 'outsourcing' arrangements. This has resulted in an increasingly pluralised and marketised landscape of contemporary criminal justice. 2020-08-1207 minFacultiFacultiProblematic Interactive Media Use Among Children and AdolescentsProblematic interactive media use (PIMU) is a real and growing health problem among children and adolescents of the digital age. In the digital age, we may have encountered a new pathology, or group of pathologies, to which we must develop a thoughtful, responsive, and structured systemic response. Children and adolescents are the sentinel cases of PIMU; they are early and enthusiastic adopters of new technologies and they have yet to develop self-regulating executive brain function.2020-07-1011 minFacultiFacultiNational indifference and the return of Alsace to FranceAlison Carrol examines French policies to reintegrate the recovered region of Alsace into France after the First World War. As integration programs became increasingly contentious, administrators sent from Paris to Alsace read the situation through the lens of German influence. No French administrator used the term ‘national indifference’, but their worries bear a striking similarity to those expressed with regard to so-called nationally indifferent populations in East Central Europe at the turn of the twentieth century: bilingualism, intermarriage, and Catholicism each represented alternative points of loyalty to the French nation, as well as sources of concern to the French gove...2020-06-1216 minFacultiFacultiThe role of grammar in the writing curriculumFor most Anglophone countries, the history of grammar teaching over the past 50 years is one of contestation, debate and dissent: and 50 years on we are no closer to reaching a consensus about the role of grammar in the English/Language Arts curriculum. Debra Myhill discusses differing perspectives on the value of grammar for the language learner and opposing views of what educational benefits learning grammar may or may not accrue. 2020-06-0910 minFacultiFacultiThe physiological response to drawing and its relation to attention and relaxationGareth Loudon discusses the physiological response of participants during a creative activity and compares the results to their physiological response during states of high attention and relaxation.2020-06-0512 minFacultiFacultiHeterogeneous middle-class and disparate educational advantageThe heterogeneity of the contemporary Indian middle-class has been discussed widely. However, the effect of its internal differences on the distribution of educational resources needs to be examined systematically. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with parents in 53 middle-class families in Dehradun, India, Achala Gupta explores three aspects of the home-school relationship: how socioeconomic transformations shape parents’ aspirations for their children’s future, educational decisions parents make to realise those aspirations, and mothers’ engagement in their children’s everyday schooling.2020-06-0320 minFacultiFacultiFreedom, Regulation, and Public PolicyMark Pennington explores the relationship between freedom, regulation, and public policy. Adopting a “non-ideal” approach, he argues that there is no necessary connection between different conceptions of liberty and any particular sort of regulatory/public policy framework. Both negative and positive conceptions of freedom require a role for “regulation,” but whether this “regulation” arises from public policy or is best left to emerge through private agency in a competitive environment is a matter that can only be resolved by theoretical speculation and empirical inquiry.2020-05-2613 minFacultiFacultiGypsy and Traveller Girls: Silence, Agency and PowerGeetha Marcus presents the untold stories of Gypsy and Traveller girls living in Scotland. Drawing on accounts of the girls’ lives and offering space for their voices to be heard, the author addresses contemporary and traditional stereotypes and racialised misconceptions of Gypsies and Travellers. Marcus explores how the stubborn persistence of these negative views appears to contribute to policies and practices of neglect, inertia or intervention that often aim to ‘civilise’ and further assimilate these communities into the mainstream settled population.2020-05-2019 minFacultiFacultiPolitical polarization and environmental attitudesThere is evidence that in the United States popular attitudes about environmental problems have been shaped by elite polarization on environmental issues. Yet there has been little systematic analysis of the impact of elite polarization on environmental attitudes in other parts of the world. Sarah Birch discusses a general theory of the role of elite polarization in conditioning popular support for environmental protection.2020-05-1506 minFacultiFacultiBarack Obama and the Return of ‘Declinism’Andrew Moran considers the claim that ‘change’ during the Obama years amounted to an acceptance of American global decline. It contends that sensible retrenchment should not be equated with ‘decline.’ 2020-04-2012 minFacultiFacultiFactors Affecting Kenyan Secondary Teachers’ Technology IntegrationTeaching is a complex practice that requires teachers to draw upon their content knowledge, pedagogical approaches and strategies, and knowledge about learners in order to support learning. Integrating technology into the teaching and learning practice of a classroom is a strategy that many teachers are drawing upon. Joanna Masingila reports on the initial findings on information communication technology (ICT) implementation in Kenyan secondary schools and discusses factors affecting effective technology integration. Joanna Masingila is Dean of the School of Education at Syracuse University and a professor of mathematics and mathematics education.2020-04-1709 minFacultiFacultiLet no man write my epitaphFor centuries elegy has been instrumental to Irish culture and its self-expression. Alison Morgan discusses the elegies both by and about Robert Emmet written by Thomas Moore, Robert Southey and Percy Bysshe Shelley as well those written by anonymous balladeers.2020-04-1614 minFacultiFacultiOn Cumbrian alchemyRobert Williams discusses how art investigates the nuclear Anthropocene, nuclear sites and materiality and the philosophical concept of radiation as a hyperobject.2020-04-1507 minFacultiFacultiUnderstanding Social PreferencesDepartures from self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of “social preferences.” Gary Charness discusses a range of simple experimental games that test these theories more directly than existing experiments. Experiments show that subjects are more concerned with increasing social welfare—sacrificing to increase the payoffs for all recipients, especially low-payoff recipients—than with reducing differences in payoffs (as supposed in recent models). Subjects are also motivated by reciprocity: they withdraw willingness to sacrifice to achieve a fair outcome when others are themselves unwilling to sacrifice, and sometimes punish unfair behavior.2020-04-0905 minFacultiFacultiEx‐military CEOs and financial misconductCEOs who formerly served in the U.S. military are prevalent among U.S. firms. The military puts strong emphasis on the obedience of its personnel. Georg Wernicke discusses time spent in the military leads individuals to be more obedient to rules and regulations in the years after they have left the military and become CEOs.2020-04-0806 minFacultiFacultiPro-business degrowthThomas Roulet discusses three “degrowth”-oriented strategies that companies can pursue to open new opportunities while benefitting the environmen. Dr Thomas Roulet, University Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory & Information Systems at Cambridge Judge Business School. Companies can apply degrowth to product design to create products with a longer lifespan or which are locally produced. An example is social enterprise Fairphone, which makes phones that can be more easily repaired in the interest of longevity. Companies can reposition themselves in the value chain by delegating some tasks to stakeholders. Toymaker LEGO has launched marketplaces for trading used products or creating new...2020-04-0711 minFacultiFacultiDynamic Models of Language Evolution: The Economic PerspectiveThe economics of language may not yet be a mainstream subfield of economics. In this interview, Andrew John discusses the following questions: how do economic analysis and economic reasoning provide insight into linguistic phenomena? How does economics and economic models shed light on language change?2020-04-0614 minFacultiFacultiWays Your Child Can Get the Best Out of SchoolAdrian Piccoli discusses Ways Your Child Can Get the Best Out of School. The Honorable Adrian Piccoli served as a Member of NSW Parliament for 19 years and as the NSW Minister for Education for 6 years from 2011 until 2017. Mr Piccoli is currently the Director of UNSW’s Gonski Institute for Education.2020-04-0220 minFacultiFacultiRange of outcomes reported in kidney transplantation trialsAnthony Warrens discusses the range of outcomes reported in kidney transplantation trials. Anthony Warrens is Dean for Education and Director of the Institute of Health Sciences Education (IHSE) at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry (Barts). He is a practising consultant renal physician with a particular interest in transplantation medicine. The need for more organs for transplantation, which has been a continuous concern throughout his clinical career, informed his research agenda.2020-03-3104 minFacultiFacultiEffective Tutors and Tutoring within a Blended Learning ContextAndrew Youde discusses the findings of research that explored the practices of tutors in blended learning contexts. Youde investigated the skills, qualities and competences, particularly emotional competences, contributing to tutor effectiveness with the exploration including analysis of learners’ perceptions of their quality.2020-03-3013 minFacultiFacultiThe Duckworth-Lewis-Stern methodThe famous (and occasionally infamous) Duckworth-Lewis methodology for dealing with interruptions in limited overs cricket matches made its international debut in early 1997. For nearly 20 years, it has set the standard for target adjustment at nearly all levels of the game. In that time, though, it has not been static. Produced by Faculti Media Limited 2020. Intro by David Hilowitz.2020-03-2108 minFacultiFacultiPasi Sahlberg on Play in EducationPlay is how children explore, discover, fail, succeed, socialize, and flourish. It is a fundamental element of the human condition. It’s the key to giving schoolchildren skills they need to succeed–skills like creativity, innovation, teamwork, focus, resilience, expressiveness, empathy, concentration, and executive function. Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish educator and scholar, and Fulbright Scholar William Doyle make the case for helping schools and children thrive by unleashing the power of play and giving more physical and intellectual play to all schoolchildren.2020-03-2120 minFacultiFacultiCharacter LabOverwhelming scientific evidence now shows that character strengths like self-control, curiosity, and gratitude are critically important to social and emotional well-being, physical health, and achievement. Although character strengths are malleable, surprisingly little is known about how they can be intentionally cultivated. Character Lab exists to research and create new ways to help all children develop character. Angela Duckworth is co-founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit that uses psychological science to help children thrive. She is also the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for...2020-03-0412 minFacultiFacultiA non-invasive beam profile monitor for charged particle beamsNon-interceptive beam profile monitors are highly desirable in almost all particle accelerators. Such techniques are especially valuable in applications where real time monitoring of the beam properties is required while beam preservation and minimal influence on the vacuum are of the greatest importance.2020-02-2008 minFacultiFacultiWelsh Grammar You Really Need to KnowChristine Jones discusses Welsh Grammar You Really Need to Know. Jones explores how geography played a key role in the difference between dialects and key aspects of grammar in focus and individual language points.2020-02-1818 minFacultiFacultiDiscursive Manoeuvring in the Borderlands of Career TransitionBill Blayney discusses a doctoral study that investigated the borderland discourses of the research participants who graduated from an initial pre-service teacher education degree through distance education.2020-02-1308 minFacultiFacultiFeedback in Higher EducationDavid Boud discusses what makes for effective feedback, with reference to feedback in Higher Education.2020-02-1209 minFacultiFacultiA Framework Approach to Teacher HiringJerome Cranston, discusses how a deliberate commitment to using a research-based framework of teaching effectiveness, – one that reflects the expectations of what it means to be effective in a local school context - can be combined with hiring practices, to yield better outcomes from the teacher screening and selection process.2020-02-0611 minFacultiFacultiA Second Language Task-Based Needs Analysis for Australian Aboriginal LearnersRhonda Oliver discusses A Second Language Task-Based Needs Analysis for Australian Aboriginal Learners2020-02-0508 minFacultiFacultiDNA methylation predicts high-grade cervical neoplasiaDNA methylation changes in human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) DNA are common and might be important for identifying women at increased risk of cervical cancer. Atilla Lorincz discusses recently published data from Costa Rica and a classification score to differentiate women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 or 32020-01-3112 minFacultiFacultiBringing together learning from two worldsBarbara Pamphilon examines the lessons learned from aproject that facilitated village-level community education workshopsthat sought to bring male and female heads of families together ina culturally appropriate way in order to encourage more gender equitable planning and farming practices.2020-01-3116 minFacultiFacultiNurturing wellbeing development in educationFaye McCallum discusses the central role and responsibility of education in ensuring the wellbeing of children and young people.2020-01-2900 minFacultiFacultiCultivating ‘good’ practice or ‘best’ practice?Catherine Doherty discusses the double meaning of ‘good’ in English. ‘Good’ can refer to the morally correct choice, and it can also refer to high quality. The question then becomes whether these types of ‘good-ness’ refer to the same thing in teacher education.2020-01-2700 minFacultiFacultiCultures of Inequality: Financialisation, Labour and Social FinanceLisa Magnani analyses the role of Social Finance as an example of financial innovation and provides an insight into the underlying inequality of power between Labour and Finance.2020-01-2400 minFacultiFacultiCompany Voluntary Arrangements: Evaluating Success and FailurePeter Walton considers the reasons for the ‘success’ or ‘failure’ of company voluntary arrangements (“CVAs”) and to investigate the outcomes where CVAs fail. The frequency of CVAs is reasonably low when compared with alternative corporate Insolvency Act 1986 procedures1 and it has been commented that CVAs have a high failure rate. The research project aims to identify ‘successful’ and ‘failed’ CVAs and by doing so, identify key characteristics which will in turn allow practical guidance to be provided to insolvency practitioners (“IPs”) and also inform policy recommendations to Government.2020-01-2400 minFacultiFacultiUsing Assessment to Promote LearningChris Davison discusses the innovative assessment developments in their educational environments and some of the conceptual and practical issues of the different approaches to using assessment to promote learning. 2020-01-2100 minFacultiFacultiMen’s experiences of post-separation abuseResearch has demonstrated the prevalence of men’s victimisation of intimate partner violence, and more recently there has been qualitative work to highlight the severity and impact of their experiences. Little research has explored how the abuse continues or changes once the couple have separated.2020-01-2000 minFacultiFacultiFamilies Without SchoolsUsing a collection of settler family letters to the Elementary Correspondence School (ECS) in British Columbia, the first provincial government–supported “schooling by mail” arrangement of its kind in Canada, Mona Gleason discusses the efforts of rural families to secure an education for their children in the period between the First and Second World Wars.2020-01-1513 minFacultiFacultiSpecialist expertise in coaching headteachersRachel Lofthouse discusses the significance of specialist expertise in coaching headteachers. Amongst the research findings were strong indicators of the value placed by the headteachers on the expertise, independence and quality of the coaching provision2020-01-1427 minFacultiFacultiAbility, motivation and opportunity: managerial coaching in practiceThe practice of managerial coaching is increasing globally, although there is still comparatively little research into it. Grace McCarthy discusses the motivation of managers and offers recommendations for those seeking to foster managerial coaching in their organisations. Grace McCarthy is the Dean of Sydney Business School at the University of Wollongong2020-01-1412 minFacultiFacultiThose Who DisappearJim Watterston discusses young people across Australia of compulsory school age who, for multiple reasons, are not participating in a school or an education program of any type.2020-01-0813 minFacultiFacultiThe Future of Action Research in EducationSteve Jordan discusses how forms of action and participatory research can be used to enhance the learning of adults in Canada.2020-01-0714 minFacultiFacultiWhat is an Insurrection?The notion of insurrection has been increasingly deployed as a way of describing recent uprisings around the world – from Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street, from the ‘movement of the squares’ in Madrid and Athens to Gezi Park in Istanbul. Saul Newman discusses a theoretical understanding of the insurrection as a central concept in radical politics in order to account for contemporary movements and forms of mobilisation that seek to withdraw from governing institutions and affirm autonomous practices and forms of life.2020-01-0119 minFacultiFacultiInformal learning spaces and their impact on learning in higher educationCraig Deed discusses the need forstudent-oriented teaching and learning environments and theemergence of built informal learning environments oncampus.2019-12-2319 minFacultiFacultiMaking most of the spectrum of mentoring and coaching in educationRachel Lofthouse discusses how to create powerful professional learning through coaching, mentoring and collaborative leadership in education2019-12-1711 minFacultiFacultiA Different Kind of Teacher for a Different Kind of SchoolIn New South Wales, and Australia more broadly, we are on the precipice of a massive transformation of schooling and the assumptions around the education of children. This transformation is focussed on equity and the personalisation of the schooling process. These engaging learning centres will allow students to take ownership for their own education, have autonomy and agency, and where passion is encouraged. Teachers in these new school designs become facilitators who encourage and support students’ individual journeys2019-12-1612 minFacultiFacultiTeaching university subjects online, changing technology and pedagogical practiceDavid Smith explores the development of a new hybrid learning framework designed to assist lecturers in the planning and teaching of their subjects, and in engaging students with the course material online.2019-12-1508 minFacultiFacultiEducation isn't a meritocracy, it's a 'parentocracy'Kellie Bousfield discusses how the education system feeds into the “choice” parents make. In Australia, and elsewhere, the system doesn’t favour academic merit, but parental wealth and instead of meritocracy, we see a parentocracy – the actions and wealth of parents act as key determinants of a child’s academic success.2019-12-1213 minFacultiFacultiDiversity in Teacher EducationDiversity in Teacher Education2019-12-0612 minFacultiFacultiLeaders’ achievement goals predict employee burnoutFrederik Anseel discusses the impact of leaders' motivational strivings on employee burnout.2019-12-0307 minFacultiFacultiTeacher's well being and work-life balanceCatherine Carden discusses whether teacher sare incorrect to expect to establish a 'perfect' balance between their work and personal life.2019-12-0116 minFacultiFacultiA private entrepreneur and his art museum: how MONA took Tasmania to the worldA private entrepreneur and his art museum: how MONA took Tasmania to the world2019-11-2706 minFacultiFacultiMusic after the Death of ArtWhat do we mean by ‘twentieth-century music’? And how are we to square this with the musics of a twenty-first century that is now nearing the end of its second decade? Roger Redgate graduated at the Royal College of Music, where he won prizes for composition, violin performance, harmony and counterpoint, studying composition with Edwin Roxburgh and electronic music with Lawrence Casserley. A DAAD scholarship enabled him to study with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber in Freiburg. From 1989 to 1992 he was Northern Arts Composer Fellow, he has lectured at Durham and Newcastle Universities. He was invited as guest composer and c...2019-11-0506 minFacultiFacultiPost-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game'Post-truth’ was Oxford Dictionaries 2016 word of the year. While the term was coined by its disparagers in the light of the Brexit and US presidential campaigns, the roots of post-truth lie deep in the history of Western social and political theory.2019-10-2810 minFacultiFacultiThe Case for Informal Spaces in the WorkplaceMonica Biagioli discusses The Case for Informal Spaces in the Workplace2019-09-0205 minFacultiFacultiBank of England Special: Bank liquidity and the cost of debtSince the 2007–09 crisis, tougher bank liquidity regulation has been imposed which aims to ensure banks can survive a severe funding stress. Critics of this regulation suggest that it raises the cost of maturity transformation and reduces productive lending. Rhiannon Sowerbutts discusses a bank run model with a unique equilibrium where solvent banks can fail due to illiquidity.2019-08-1308 minFacultiFacultiWhy We Fail to Address the Achievement GapPaul Reville is the Francis Keppel professor of practice of policy and administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he also leads the Education Redesign Lab, an initiative designed to re-envision 21st-century education. He is a former Massachusetts secretary of education.2019-08-1305 minFacultiFacultiMotivation as the Readiness to Act on Moral CommitmentsTheresa A. Thorkildsen describes how researchers use intentional frameworks to explain the process of motivation and extend that logic to questions of moral motivation.2019-08-1310 minFacultiFacultiLawrence Summers on Global Health 2035Lawrence Summers is the former Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank, senior U.S. Treasury Department and former director of the National Economic Council. He is a former president of Harvard University and currently director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government2019-07-1405 minFacultiFacultiNoam Chomsky on Western TerrorismNoam Chomsky, world renowned dissident intellectual, discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek. The discussion weaves together a historical narrative with the two men’s personal experiences which led them to a life of activism. The discussion includes personal memories, such as the New York newsstand where Chomsky began his political education, and broadens out to look at the shifting forms of imperial control and the Western propaganda apparatus. Along the way the discussion touches on many countries of which the authors have personal experience, from Nicaragua and Cuba, to China, Chile, Turkey and ma...2019-07-1404 minFacultiFacultiAt Home in the LawAt Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution Is Transforming Privacy. Jeannie Suk Gersen is the John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she has taught criminal law and procedure, family law, and the law of art, fashion, and the performing arts. Before joining the faculty in 2006, she served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Harry Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She was educated at Yale (B.A. 1995), and at Oxford (D.Phil 1999...2019-07-0810 minFacultiFacultiAbstract, concrete and constructiveAndrew Bick received an MA in painting from the Chelsea School of Art (1988) and has since shown extensively in Europe and the U.S. Bick lives and works in London. Andrew Bick is a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University and Reader in Fine Art at the University of Gloucestershire teaching BA, MA and supervising seven PhDs. Here Bick discusses the use of Concrete Art in his unique pictorial compositions.2019-07-0406 minFacultiFacultiBank of England Special: Lending relationships and the collateral channelCorporate investment is known to respond strongly to cyclical swings in firms’ collateral values. This collateral channel is a key source of business cycle amplification. Saleem Bahaj discusses how lending relationships insulate corporate investment from fluctuations in collateral values.2019-07-0408 minFacultiFacultiMapping China's Growth and Development in the Long RunChina’s long-term experience showcases the two fundamentals in growth and development: efficiency and equality. Kent Deng discusses China’s long history, one that places importance on distributing incomes as much as producing them.2019-07-0414 minFacultiFacultiLive PerformanceNigel Rolfe is recognised as a seminal figure in performance art, in its history and among current world practitioners. He has lectured at the Royal College of Art since 1982. He is a senior visiting critic to postgraduate courses in the US and Europe. He was visiting professor in Sculpture at Yale University and visiting professor in Fine Art at the RCA. He is elected to Aosdana in Ireland. Born in the Isle of Wight in 1950, Nigel Rolfe lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. He works with many media – video and photography and sound – and for the past thirty years he h...2019-07-0304 minFacultiFacultiThe fundamental tensions between copyright and social mediaCopyright is inherently intertwined with the development of technology and none more so than the advent of the Internet and sharing technologies. Social media platforms have become the latest challenge for copyright law and policy. Hayleigh Bosher builds on the literature that recognises the underlying conflict between copyright and social networking sites (SNSs); namely that the basic implication of copyright is the restriction of copying, whereas the ethos of social networking is the promotion of sharing.2019-07-0315 minFacultiFacultiNew Independent Indian CinemaThe rise of new independent Indian cinema is a widely acknowledged yet unfathomably understudied phenomenon. Ashvin Devasundaram discusses India’s New Independent Cinema, the first academic analysis on the topic, designed to serve as a bellwether for future research in this area.2019-07-0315 minFacultiFacultiSustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design JourneysKate Fletcher discusses how lifecycle sustainability impacts of fashion and textiles, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation. She challenges existing ideas about the scope and potential of sustainability issues in fashion and textiles, and sets out a more pluralistic, engaging and forward-looking picture, drawing on ideas of systems thinking, human needs, local products, slow fashion and participatory design, as well as knowledge of materials.2019-07-0304 minFacultiFacultiBank of England Special: Banks are not intermediaries of loanable fundsPart of our Bank of England Partnership: In the intermediation of loanable funds model of banking, banks accept deposits of pre-existing real resources from savers and then lend them to borrowers. In the real world, banks provide financing through money creation. That is they create deposits of new money through lending, and in doing so are mainly constrained by profitability and solvency considerations. Michael Kumhof contrasts simple intermediation and financing models of banking. Compared to otherwise identical intermediation models, and following identical shocks, financing models predict changes in bank lending that are far larger, happen much faster, and have m...2019-07-0340 minFacultiFacultiBank of England Special: Let's talk about the weatherPart of our Bank of England Partnership: Misa Tanaka examines the channels via which climate change and policies to mitigate it could affect a central bank’s ability to meet its monetary and financial stability objectives. Misa Tanaka is the Head of Research at the Bank of England. She joined the Bank of England in 2002 after completing a D.Phil in Economics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. She has held a number of positions across Monetary Analysis, Financial Stability, and Prudential Policy Areas of the Bank. Misa has previously published articles on international policy spillovers, bonus regulations, and sover...2019-07-0309 minFacultiFacultiVampires, Race, and Transnational HollywoodsThe figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Never dying, shifting shape and moving at unnatural speed, as the vampire renews itself by drinking victims’ blood, so too does Hollywood renew itself by consuming foreign styles and talent, moving to overseas locations, and proliferating in new guises.2019-07-0314 minFacultiFacultiThe Anxious Triumph: A Global History of CapitalismCapitalism has co-existed with many different kinds of states, from Victorian Britain to republican France and confederate Switzerland, from Fascist and Nazi regimes to post-war European democracies, from post-Meiji Japan to south-east Asian and Latin American dictatorships, communist China and even Russia. Donald Sassoon is Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary College, London.2019-07-0308 minFacultiFacultiThe Baptized Muse: Early Christian poetry as cultural authorityWith the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire increasing numbers of educated people converted to this new belief. As Christianity did not have its own educational institutions the issue of how to harmonize pagan education and Christian convictions became increasingly pressing. Karla Pollmann is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bristol. Pollmann is a leading authority on the work of Augustine and a world-leader in the study of his influence across the ages. She has written widely on interdisciplinary projects combining Classics, Theology, Philosophy, Cultural History, Literature and Reception Studies.2019-07-0316 minFacultiFacultiThe role of ITE in the formation of adult literacy teachers' beliefs and practices in the teaching of readingIrene Schwab, UCL Insitute of Education, duscisses the role of Initial Teacher Education in the formation of adult literacy teachers' beliefs and practices in the teaching of reading.2019-07-0316 min