By Gee Imaan Semmalar, Kent University After spending several months in India during the devastating “second wave” of the pandemic, I decided to travel back to the United Kingdom to continue research for my PhD. Academia is particularly unforgiving to postgraduate students who are on scholarships, doing teaching assistantships on a three-year funded PhD in this [...]

By Angela Paul, Northumbria University Affect or emotion recognition is a recent phenomenon that can be observed amongst the mass deployment of facial recognition technologies worldwide by several governments. The process of affect recognition involves recording and coding an individual’s facial expressions in a video, with a view to assessing their emotions [1]. The European Union’s [...]

By Dr Ilke Turkmendag, Newcastle University The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recent warning (15th of June 2021) about prevention of alcohol consumption not only for pregnant women but also for women of ‘childbearing age’ (defined as age 15-50 by WHO) was met with immediate backlash on Twitter. In recent years, there has been an increase in [...]

By Felicity Adams and Fabienne Emmerich, Keele University  On 5th July The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021 returns to Parliament for the 3rd Reading. The Bill, in its current iteration, poses a huge threat to people who are marginalized in mainstream society as well as a huge threat to democracy. After all we [...]

By Elizabeth Peel, Loughborough University (@profpeel) What does legal gender status mean for different members of the British public? Building on recent work on peoples’ perspectives on legal gender reform, insights from legal consciousness studies are combined with discursive psychology to interrogate interview data from the Future of Legal Gender project. Legal gender, in the UK, is [...]

By Agata Fijalkowski (Leeds Beckett University) and Jane Arnfield (Northumbria University)   Radegast Station Independence Traditions Museum Lodz Poland - Project Ten To Ten 2019 Blueprint Banners by Alfons Bytautus & Jane Arnfield commissioned by Marek Edelman Dialogue Centre Lodz for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto. Photograph Credit Tony Harrington. [...]

By Hussain Bari, University of Sheffield In 1971, Bangladesh achieved independence in its quest for equality, human dignity and social justice. In the light of those principles, freedom-loving people were embellished with a robust constitution which specifically offers a catalogue of fundamental rights, including the right to fair trial and a cluster of procedural due process [...]