To accompany our podcast Transmission: A conversation with Hari Kunzru, here is a recording of him reading from two of his most iconic works: Gods Without Men (2011), a novel about mixed-raced identity in India, and The Memory Palace (2013), a collaborative…
Anyone who visits the Pod Academy website, will know that we believe podcasting is a great way to broadcast academic research to a wide audience. Every week thousands of people around the world download our podcasts. Now Cheryl Brumley, the…
“I feel like I am walking on the edge of a cliff and at any moment I will fall off”. A series of unique reports highlighting research by 8 communities living in areas of high deprivation in Northern Ireland reveal…
A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed. That sentence contains all nine ways of pronouncing the letters ‘ough’ in English. It is a seemingly chaotic language. Indeed playwright…
As discussed in our recent podcast on economics and everyday life, this June will see the opening of Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Arts in Sunderland before…
People are very good at moving in time to a beat. When you listen to your favourite song, you will probably find yourself nodding your head or tapping your foot along almost instinctively. And when you’re doing it in a…
Controversy continues to envelop Richard Scudamore, the long-standing Chief Executive of the English Premier League, nearly two weeks after sexist emails he exchanged with business associates were leaked by a former personal assistant. His future at the helm of the league…
In 2015, the UN’s eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – broad targets for eradicating poverty and disease and improving worldwide rates of primary education, maternal health and gender equality- will be replaced with newly agreed goals. The MDG approach was a…
With the football World Cup almost upon us, it is worth reflecting on the power of sport in diplomacy. In 2009 Victor Cha, the former director of Asian affairs for the White House, argued that sport matters because it can…
We now know that rising global ocean surface temperatures directly influence UK winter rainfall. How do we know? Because thousands of members of the public participated in the biggest ever climate modelling exercise: they offered up spare processing capacity on their…
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