Latest news stories drawn from the Schools and Departments of the College of Arts and Law.
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- Professor Candida Moss reports for The Daily Beast on recent digs at 'German Stonehenge' and in Turkey which have unveiled more sites of human sacrifice, as well as more history in which the vulnerable always paid the price.
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- 16/07/2018
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- Heather Widdows is interview by the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of the West of England for its Appearance Matters podcast. Heather talks about how beauty has become a moral and ethical issue, and how women (and increasingly men) feel the pressure to conform to the beauty ideal.
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- 16/07/2018
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- A research project led by a University of Birmingham academic has indicated that virtual reality could become a vital tool for training General Practitioners to look out for hard-to-detect signs of child abuse.
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- 12/07/2018
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- Professor Hanna Pickard writes for the Howard League for Penal Reform's research bulletin about responsibility in matters of criminal justice. Hanna talks about her research and the 'Responsibility without Blame' project.
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- 12/07/2018
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- Professor Susan Hunston is giving a plenary talk at this year's Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TaLC), which will take place on 18-21 July 2018 at the University of Cambridge.
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- 11/07/2018
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- Conference report from Martin Trybus.
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- 10/07/2018
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- Report from the sixth International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies, held in Hong Kong.
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- 10/07/2018
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- Ema Sullivan-Bissett, Lecturer in Philosophy writes this recent blog post on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases.
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- 09/07/2018
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- Nikk Effingham writes for The Conversation about a recent Twitter debate between Piers Morgan and Brian Cox about the existence of God.
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- 05/07/2018
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- 'Reframing the Wild' co-curated by Dr Kate Nichols and Dr Sam Shaw takes place at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery in Summer 2019. The MAP blog shares an insight into the animal inspired collection
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- 05/07/2018
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