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The Brixton Riots: Policing the Community in the last 40 years
Since the 1981 Brixton riots, many things have changed in British policing. However, Black people are still nine times more likely to be stopped and …
4 years, 2 months ago
Infections which use the Respiratory Route
COVID-19, pandemic influenza and tuberculosis are examples of the remarkable ability of infections to use the respiratory route of transmission. Infe…
4 years, 2 months ago
Early Protestant Missions to the Americas
Protestant settlers in the Americas believed it was their duty to convert indigenous peoples to the true Gospel. Yet the task proved unexpectedly dif…
4 years, 2 months ago
Error Control Coding
When was the last time you opened a file and noticed a computer glitch? “Never” is the usual answer. Yet the underlying hardware makes continual erro…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Broken Cosmic Distance Ladder
Measuring distances to astronomical objects outside our Galaxy is a surprisingly hard challenge: it wasn't until 1923 that Edwin Hubble obtained…
4 years, 3 months ago
Brexit: What Have We Learned So Far?
What has Brexit come to mean?
This lecture will explain how the Brexit deal the UK and the EU ended up with came to be. It will then investigate the …
4 years, 3 months ago
Terror and the Rule of Law
The Revolutionary tribunals in 1790s Paris; the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s; and the prosecution of conspirators in the assassination attemp…
4 years, 3 months ago
What is Happening to Christianity? Insights from Africa
Christianity’s centre of gravity has shifted to the Global South. Prosperity churches, 'born again' politicians, prophets, healers and exor…
4 years, 3 months ago
Structures in the Universe
How did the cosmos transition into space characterised by galaxies in a plethora of different shapes of great beauty?
This lecture will consider what…
4 years, 3 months ago
How To Make Financial Decisions
Individuals and businesses make financial decisions all the time – whether to go to university, buy a house, build a factory, or train one’s workforc…
4 years, 3 months ago