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Article by Professor Susan Edwards in The Times
Professor Edwards’ article “Uncovering the truth: when and why judges ask defendants to show their faces” was published in The Times on 18 May 2017. The article concerns a recent…
Exhibition on Dickens the investigative journalist
Charles Dickens was a novelist who addressed social ills in his fiction. He was also a journalist and activist who boldly and imaginatively campaigned to improve the lives of the…
Publication of the week: Dr Sarah Sargent
Sargent, S., “Truth and Consequences: Law, Myth and Metaphor in American Indian Contested Adoption”, Liverpool Law Review (2017) 38: 47. doi:10.1007/s10991-017-9193-7. This article considers the effects of the operations of…
Publication of the week: Dr Patricia Covarrubia
Covarrubia, P. & L. Albani, “Cultural expressions: the intersection of culture and intellectual creations – Fado as a case study”, (2017) Intellectual Property Quarterly 1, 29-51 The inscription in 2011…
Publication of the week: Dr Sarah Sargent
Yelden, K., S. Sargent & J. Samanta, “Understanding the decision-making environment for people in minimally conscious state“, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (2017). DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2017.1310657. Patients in minimally conscious state (MCS) show minimal,…
Publication of the week: Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt
Scutt, J.A. (ed.), Women, Law and Culture: Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). xvii + 319 pp. ISBN: 978-3-319-44938-8. This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political…
Fewer training to be teachers, but more becoming teachers
The latest Good Teacher Training Guide published today (11 April 2017) reports that while fewer are training to be teachers, more of the trainees are becoming teachers. This comes about…
Publication of the week: Ammar Al Abd Alazeez, Sabah Jassim and Hongbo Du
Alazeez, A., S. Jassim & H. Du, “EINCKM: An enhanced prototype-based method for clustering evolving data streams in big data”, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications…
The University of Buckingham honours MK Dons Owner
Mr Pete Winkelman was awarded an honorary degree from The University of Buckingham Business School at the 2017 graduation. On accepting his degree Pete Winkelman said: “What an absolute honour…
Publication of the week: Barry DiGregorio et al.
David H. Krinsley, Barry DiGregorio, Ronald I. Dorn, Josh Razink & Robert Fisher, “Mn-Fe-enhancing budding bacteria in century-old rock varnish, Erie Barge Canal, New York”, Journal of Geology (March 2017)…