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Risks to Youth and Studenthood in Digital Spaces: Commodification, Transitions and Digital Identities

Dr Rille Raaper (Education) and Dr Mariann Hardey (Business School) This project emerged from a number of exciting digital coffee (very apt) conversations where we discussed issues related to digital spaces and how they are used and navigated by students as young...
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The Politics of Credibility

Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (Anthropology) and Dr Olga Demetriou (Government and International Affairs) Last month (March 2022), Greek media reported on the support of a local school community to a refugee from Guinea who, having arrived as an unaccompanied minor to the...
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Covid, Contagion and Resilience

Covid, Contagion and Resilience

Jul 5, 2021

Written by Gerald Moore We know that Covid-19 is a ‘syndemic’ over and above a pandemic, a contagion whose virality is...

New book publication from Durham Law School Scholar

New book publication from Durham Law School Scholar

Jan 11, 2021

Rethinking Peace Mediation (Bristol University Press) edited by Durham’s Dr Catherine Turner (Durham Law School, and Dr Martin Waehlisch offers important insights into peace mediation practice today and the role of third parties in the resolution of armed conflicts.

Interview with Prof. Wilson Poon

Interview with Prof. Wilson Poon

Oct 16, 2020

Watch as Rob Barton, IAS Director of Social Sciences, interviews IAS Fellow Wilson Poon about his work with the Material Imagination project.

Material Imagination

Material Imagination

Sep 5, 2020

Project lead, Margarita Staykova, reflects on the exciting potential of living materials, and how the very processes of life – emergence, adaptation, resilience and death – can be used to develop new materials.

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