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12 October 2021
2 minutes to readGiving your research the Policy Factor
Policy@Exeter are a dynamic community, working to improve and increase engagement with policy within the University and further afield. We caught up with Marina Altoe to find out what gives research the ‘Policy Factor’.
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25 June 2021
3 minutes to readBreaking Boundaries: Reshaping family mediation policy & practice
Research evidence from the ‘Mapping Paths to Family Justice’ study (Mapping) led by Professor Anne Barlow at the University of Exeter has helped to reshape family mediation policy and practice and improve user experience for separating couples, after radical legal aid changes.
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5 February 2021
3 minutes to readBreaking Boundaries: Supporting the future of open science and data
For many years, scientific research has been hidden behind expensive paywalls, leaving access to new and exciting scientific research inaccessible to the general public. ‘Open science’ is research that is collaborative, transparent and reproducible and whose outputs are publicly available.
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21 January 2021
2 minutes to readDigital health passports: Mitigating risks to data privacy and human rights
Research led by Dr Ana Beduschi from the University of Exeter Law School, has informed policymakers of the risks that digital health passports could pose to human rights, data privacy and social equality.
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14 January 2021
3 minutes to readIdentity, Inequality and the Media in Brexit COVID-19 Britain
The research team of Identity, Inequality and the Media in Brexit-Covid19 Britain reflect on the impact Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic are having on inequalities in Britain.
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3 December 2020
3 minutes to readBreaking Boundaries: Reopening debates about the ‘common law marriage myth’
Research at the University of Exeter has influenced and accelerated the introduction of opposite-sex civil partnerships and reopened debates about the ‘common law marriage myth’ and a related need for wider cohabitation law reform.
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2 December 2020
3 minutes to readHuman – pachyderm relations
Anthrozoology PhD student Michelle Szydlowski discusses how working in Nepal has informed both her PhD thesis and her research.
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23 November 2020
3 minutes to readBreaking Boundaries: Changing educators approach to teaching grammar
The University of Exeter has helped to change the way that educators approach teaching grammar and writing to children.
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4 November 2020
3 minutes to readBridging gaps in law through collaboration
Law school PhD student Mollie Gascoigne researchers the gaps between the law and LGBTQ+ people; her research project, the Gender Recognition & Reform Project has been investigating the attitudes and experiences of non-binary people towards legal gender recognition.
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7 October 2020
4 minutes to readTikya the Blackheart man, children
PhD candidate Malcolm Richards describes communicating his research to the public and how this has been affected by Covid and the current restrictions.
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9 September 2020
2 minutes to readThe daily lived experiences and the emotional responses of educators
Doha Abualsaud’s research explores teachers’ daily lived experiences and emotional responses.
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12 August 2020
3 minutes to readInvestigating the socio–material futures of plastic waste in Ahmedabad
Anthropology PhD student Tridibesh Dey’s research is looking at the complex socio-political, cultural and economic factors of plastic and plastic recycling.
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29 June 2020
< 1 minute to readImproving widening participation evaluation practices
Innovative research on enhancing the quality of evidence in outreach work from the University of Exeter’s Centre for Social Mobility is impacting on universities’ practices in designing and evaluating their work with widening participation students.
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30 April 2020
3 minutes to readSustainability and the migrant experience in the COVID-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic is producing substantial changes in the practices and experiences of migration and mobility.
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20 April 2020
5 minutes to readFive ways collective intelligence can help beat coronavirus in developing countries
As developing countries gear up to tackle COVID-19, here are five ideas for simple collective intelligence projects that might help them. (Republished from The Conversation).
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22 March 2018
2 minutes to readBringing evidence-based practice to policing
Academics from Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology have been working with police across the South West to roll out the #RU2Drunk campaign.
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26 February 2015
2 minutes to readInforming and influencing policymakers on cohabitation, marriage and law
Professor Anne Barlow’s research findings on marriage and cohabitation laws have influenced policy in the UK and Germany.
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22 December 2014
< 1 minute to readImproving the teaching of pupils with special educational needs
Successive research studies carried out by Professor Brahm Norwich at the University of Exeter have shaped policy and professional understanding of how best to teach pupils with SEN,
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