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Covid Chronicles: From the Margins

Read the series of blogs written for the Covid Chronicles: From the Margins project led by Professor Marie Gillespie.

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Realising the Meaning & Value of Online Artist Residencies

OU Visiting Fellow Tim Butcher explains how the pandemic forced him and the team to radically rethink the Hip Hop Pedagogy and Power project.

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Virtue-anchoring: The William Temple Foundation

Professor Simon Lee unpacks a naval metaphor and wonders whether we should focus more on virtue-anchoring than on virtue-signalling. 

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The revival of the Domino Theory under Brexit

Written by Professor Leslie Budd from The Open University. Leslie is also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Brexit Studies, Birmingham City University.

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Between Hybridity and Hubris

This blog, published by the Centre for Brexit Studies at Birmingham City University, explores the possible economic effects of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

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What LGBTQ+ Relationships Can Teach Us About Love

Professor Jacqui Gabb explains why LGBTQ+ relationships tend to be happier according to science (image courtesy of Disabled and Here).

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Challenging border controls in healthcare

Dr Kathryn Medièn speaks to the authors of the 2020 Patients Not Passports: Migrants’ Access to Healthcare During the Coronavirus Crisis report.

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