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Decentralisation, advanced training, civilian control, feminisation, unionisation and cultural change: the Spanish police are not a remnant of the Franco years
When you put together the efforts of the Spanish authorities to curb media coverage of the Catalan referendum, you have a deeply worrying picture.
He changed how we see women, sex, and politicians.
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America’s indigenous tribes put themselves on the map in 1977. Now they’ve got Donald Trump to contend with.
It feels like we’ve seen less progress on charge time than almost anything else in smartphones. Could software efficiency be the answer?
France has been living under a a state of emergency for nearly two years. The president now wants to make some of its most controversial elements permanent law.
Faute de fossiles, l’apparence des premières fleurs est longtemps restée inconnue. Mais en remontant l’arbre généalogique de certaines plantes, des scientifiques sont parvenus à percer le mystère.
The reality of life as an academic – not quite as comfortable as you might think.
Terry Pratchett opted to have his crushed by a steamroller.
Two plays about the way men and women talk about each other with their own are both illuminating and disappointing
Talk of banks leaving London completely for other European cities is just that – talk.
Channel 4 news anchor drew thundering applause at the Edinburgh TV Festival, but don’t believe every word.
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In this episode of the podcast, we take in the history of Victorian humour, why kids find poo so hilarious and whether academics should try and be funny.
Drug deaths in Scotland are now among the highest in Europe. What can be done?
Conservationists need to assess costs which allow for the adequate compensation of communities on protected lands, whose livelihoods are deeply entwined with forest use.
Beeches are ‘non-native’ to Scotland because they got there less than 7,000 years ago. No, really.
Elephants feeding on crops poses a challenge to their coexistence with humans. Farmers must introduce strategies to reduce losses and avoid lethal action against the endangered species.
Scientists have reconstructed the common ancestor of everything from rose bushes to oak trees, ivy or wheat.
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Lecturer in Religion & Politics, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science and Planetary Exploration, University of Stirling
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Professor in Publishing Studies, University of Stirling
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Professor in Finance, University of Stirling
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Chair in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of Stirling
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Associate Professor in Journalism, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of Stirling
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Stirling
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Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Stirling
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Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, University of Stirling
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Professor of Media Sport, University of Stirling
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Professor of Sociology, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Stirling
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Researcher at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer, Communications, Media and Culture, University of Stirling
