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Floods happen. Rivers have always inundated their floodplains and the sea has always tried to reclaim land that has been taken from it. This is certainly true in Somerset, whose name derives from the Old…
I’ve just asked Siri about Her. Two screens of text appear in answer to my query. “Is that all you can find for Her?” I ask. “Let me check on that,” comes the response. More screens of text appear with…
While Egyptians should be celebrating the three-year anniversary of the Jan25 movement that resulted in Hosni Mubarak’s removal of power, many are instead struggling to come to terms with the events of…
Given conventional ideas of male roles, we often tend to imagine carers as being women. But more men take on this “unpaid work” than you might think, and particularly in older groups. Research we’ve carried…
The decision to award the TS Eliot poetry prize to Northern Ireland poet Sinéad Morrissey has been greeted with the usual poorly punctuated grumblings about how poetry has lost its way, together with mainly…
As someone who researches online behaviours such as trolling, cyberbullying, and cyberstalking, I have, from time to time, ended up on the receiving end of abusive online behaviour myself. Out of a wide…
How much would you give up to have a home that didn’t cost you a cent in energy bills? Would you sacrifice that spare bedroom that’s full of junk and hardly gets used? Or the additional bathroom? What…
It was an extraordinary year for social media. We saw sites such as Twitter shift from being a fun pastime to a fundamental part of life. The change might not have been unexpected but each time a new incident…
Some good news for Hosni Mubarak and, almost simultaneously, some bad news for his successor Mohammad Morsi. Mubarak, who is under house arrest while being tried on corruption charges will have been buoyed…
One year on from the Connecticut shootings and the “gun-control paradox” still reigns in US politics. In the wake of the murder of the 20 children and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the response…
The trial of Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale has concluded with the jury finding them guilty of murdering soldier Lee Rigby. Their claims that they were, in the words of Adebolajo, “soldiers of…
Much is made in the press of the devastating effects that weak cybersecurity is having on the economy in the UK and globally. We regularly see news articles about companies having their secrets stolen…
The recent World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Bali concluded on Saturday morning with an agreement on what is being termed the “Bali package”. So it seems there is still life in the WTO yet. Director…
Want to move your slide presentation on? Just raise an eyebrow and let your SmartWig flip to the next graph on your behalf. Well, not yet perhaps, but this is one of the ideas behind Sony’s surprising…
All sorts of claims about religious decline are flying around at the moment, from George Carey’s comment that the Church of England is “one generation away from extinction” to Richard Dawkins’ comments…
Critical national infrastructure keeps our water and electricity flowing, our payments running and our manufacturing and distribution moving. This infrastructure faces a new threat in the form of cyber-attacks…
To anyone following recent discussions about the UK’s energy sector, it might seem the nation is entirely lighting-obsessed. When announcing the deal that paved the way for a new nuclear power station…
Healthcare.gov – the web-based manifestation of Obamacare – launched last month to numerous and widely-publicised problems including long wait times, corrupted data and nonfunctional buttons. Although…
Researchers and other similar species working within academia are ethical human beings. But actual standards are needed to ensure nobody is exposed to harm in our search for answers. Without these standards…
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Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University
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Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer of Particle Physics, Lancaster University
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Professor of Space Physics, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Infection Biology, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, Lancaster University
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Research Fellow and Director of Widening Participation, Lancaster University
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Senior Research Associate in Space and Planetary Physics, Lancaster University
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Professor in Energy and Climate Governance, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Professor in Biological Psychology, Lancaster University
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Professor in English, Lancaster University
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University
