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Restorative Justice on Trial
At the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium on 22 April 2009, Dr Alice Forbess contributed to a discussion on how scholarship can offer perspectives on ‘global interactions’. Here she describes how a failure to understand local culture has complicated a well-intentioned initiative aimed at fostering reconciliation in Kosovo.
The portrayal of the graduate labour market in the media
Dr Gerbrand Tholen is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. His monograph ‘The Changing Nature of the Graduate Labour Market: Media, Policy and Political Discourses in the UK’ was published in September 2014.
Motivation and global justice: Philosophy and practice
Dr Kerri Woods is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of York.
Witness Accuracy
Dr Mark Kebbell, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, describes his research on jurors’ perceptions of eyewitness evidence.
Life on the Amazon (BAR)
Dr Mark Harris, Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, uses two forms of ethnographic writing to explore the historical and social identity of a village of fisherpeople who live in Parú on the banks of the Amazon. He intersperses analytical chapters with narrative sections that describe …
The Death of Queen Victoria
In edited extracts from his book ‘Great Deaths’, Dr John Wolffe, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the Open University, describes the demonstrations of public grief and mourning following the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.
Broadbrows and book clubs
Nicola Wilson introduces us to the Book Society and its cultural influence
Mobilising the law: Environmental NGOs in court
Dr Lisa Vanhala was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2012 at the University of Oxford and at University College London. She is now Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy, University College London. Her research on legal mobilisation in the UK was published …
The Victorians and French novels
Juliette Atkinson introduces us to the Victorians’ conflicted relationship with the French novel.
Neural plasticity: don't fall for the hype
Mirko Farina warns us not to get over-excited by claims for brain improvement.
Imagining new worlds: forging 'non-western' International Relations in late colonial India
Martin J. Bayly reveals an Indian dimension to the development of International Relations studies.
Where ants dig up gold: 'India', selfhood and the myths manufacturing a nation
As India seeks to define its identity in its 70th anniversary, Bihani Sarkar reveals that it has always been the subject of myth-making.
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