Fiona de Londras and Máiréad Enright Throughout the life of the Irish state it has been a criminal offence to access [...]
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Precarious work: Understanding the new employment relations
Arne L Kalleberg and Steven Vallas Profound changes in work have had deep impacts on workers and their families throughout the [...]
Read moreRacism. Work. Brexit. Empire
Stephen Ashe In recent years, Business in the Community (BITC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have commissioned two of the [...]
Read moreThe power of our social media data
David Beer The stories about Cambridge Analytica and the use of Facebook data have been sweeping across the media over recent [...]
Read more‘It needn’t be true as long as it’s believable: manipulating data to strategize propaganda in the era of ‘alternative facts’
Christian Garland The title of this article takes the words of Alexander Nix, co-founder and CEO of ‘political consultancy’ Cambridge [...]
Read moreThe Coming Epistemic Transition: From Small to Big Data
Hamish Robertson, Joanne Travaglia and Nick Nicholas Current attitudes towards ‘big data’ are quite mixed including positive, negative and various kinds [...]
Read moreElites and their teachers
Saskia Papadakis In October 2017, David Lammy MP accused Oxford and Cambridge, England’s oldest and most prestigious universities, of ‘social apartheid’. [...]
Read moreUniversal basic income: pipedream or a real possibility?
Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley During a recent Guardian newspaper podcast on the idea of a universal basic income, one of [...]
Read moreDoes Brexit Mean Brexit?
Graham Taylor In the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum Teresa May, tried to calm the concerns of anxious Leave supporters [...]
Read moreMerely a One-Way Transaction: The Emotional Management of Organ Donation
Stephanie Parsons There are currently around 6,500 people on the UK transplant waiting list and nearly 500 people died last year [...]
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