By Guest Contributor
Society trusts women to raise children, support households, hold families together emotionally but put a woman behind the controls of a plane and suddenly people become nervous.
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By Daniel O'Brien, Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
Despite the prominence of family relationships in cinema, fatherhood remains a surprisingly underexplored area of academic film study.
There are a few exceptions. Charting the emergence of the paternal protector as a key masculine archetype is Katie Barnett’s Fathers on Film: Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood. And crucially, Gershon Reiter’s Fathers…
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By Conor Caldwell, Assistant Professor in Irish Traditional Music, University of Limerick
Adam Behr, Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
Ellis Jones, Lecturer in Music and Management, University of Leeds
Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
Hussein Boon, Principal Lecturer, Music, University of Westminster
Joel Gray, Associate Dean of Learning, Teaching, and Student Success and Lecturer in Media, Art and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University
Max Bowden, PhD Candidate, impact and influence of the Grateful Dead, University of Essex
Michael Bradshaw, Dean of Faculty, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
Niall Keegan, Associate Professor Irish World Academy of Music & Dance. Course Director of the BA Arts in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick
Ronan Guilfoyle, Director, Centre for Jazz Performance Studies, Dublin City University
Samuel Murray, Lecturer in Music Management, University of Leeds
Songs about fathers and fatherhood range in tone from joy and celebration to absence, tension and grief. For Father’s Day, we asked 11 experts to share their favourite tracks and albums about fatherhood.
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By Ben Roberts, Senior Lecturer in School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University
More than four million homes were built in the UK during the Victorian era.
Victorian homes were constructed long before the complex computer models used today to design buildings were invented. Yet, these homes, built over 100 years ago, are cooler in summer than many built more recently.
Here are some fundamental architectural…
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By Stuart Walker, Research Fellow in Sustainabilty Assessment, University of Sheffield
Water unites everyone on the planet, and as well as keeping us alive, it has thousands of other uses, yet we undervalue it, take it for granted and often waste it.
As many countries are now experiencing hot weather more frequently, our demand for water increases. Water companies need to act to reduce leaks and wastage, but there are also ways we can all save water around the house, as well as…
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By Amin Al-Habaibeh, Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems, Nottingham Trent University
Francesco Luke Siena, Senior Lecturer in Product Design, School of Architecture, Design & the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University
When temperatures rise, sleep often suffers. Hot nights can make it harder to fall asleep, increase waking during the night and leave people feeling less rested the next day.
One reason is thermoregulation, the body’s ability to keep its internal temperature within a safe range. Sleep is closely linked to body temperature: to fall asleep and stay asleep, the body usually needs to lose some heat. Hot bedrooms make that harder.
And UK summers are becoming hotter. The Met…
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By Matei Candea, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
In the early 20th century, American anthropologist Franz Boas argued that being free just means being fully in harmony with your culture. The Inuit with whom he had done fieldwork saw themselves as incomparably free, even though he saw them as constrained by traditional rules.
But the opposite was also true: they saw his (freely chosen) decision to live among them as a strange cultural compulsion. For Boas, there is no absolute freedom: “We are…
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By Scarlett Fountain, Researcher, Physical Activity & Health, Nottingham Trent University
Karah Dring, Senior Lecturer in Exercise and Health, Nottingham Trent University
Getting enough exercise is one of the most important things we can do for our health. Yet many people around the world are not active enough. Around one in three adults fail to meet the recommended levels of physical activity, while four in five children aged 11–17 do not achieve the recommended average of 60 minutes a day.
A lack of physical activity increases the risk of long-term conditions…
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By Giovanni Pietro Lombardo, Professor of History of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome
M. Andrea Pisauro, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Plymouth
Benito Mussolini stepped out onto the Piazza del Campidoglio at 10:58 in the morning of April 7, 1926. He had just delivered a speech prepared for him by his lover, the Jewish writer Margherita Sarfatti.
The speech had been a success, and Mussolini left satisfied, making his way through the cheering crowd.
Suddenly, a woman approached within a few meters of the Duce. She was holding a Lebel, a deadly revolver issued to the French army during the first world war. She pointed it at the dictator…
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By Natalia Núñez-Bargueño, MSCA research fellow, KU Leuven
What grants influential women visibility and diplomatic status? Women in Diplomacy day on June 24 is an opportunity to consider how female-led efforts are recognised, valued and remembered.
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